Noun: culvere
| Sg. | culvere |
| Pl. | culveres; culveren |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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And he ſeide to hem þat ſelden culueris / take ȝe awei from hennes þeſe þingis .· ⁊ nyle ȝe make þe hous of my fadir an hows of marchaundiſe (And he said to those who sold doves: "Take those things out of here; you won't make my father's house a place of business!") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 2:16, folio 45, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
Nouns inflected like culvere
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula. See: Old English Nouns '
culufre', Latin Nouns '
columbula'.
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