acounte – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of acounte

Noun: acounte
Sg.acounte
Pl.acountes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • At þe dredful day of dom. þͬ dede ſchullen a rẏſen. / And comen alle bi foꝛe criſt. and a Coũtes ȝelden. (At the dreaded day of judgement, the dead will rise up, / and all come before Christ to give their accounts.) [c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 8]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 400, recto; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like acounte

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman acounte, aconte, from aconter (see acounten). Equivalent to a- + counte (“computation”).

Verbs referencing "acounte"

English Nouns account.

Translations