lapates

1 lapates (lapp-) [LL < Heb.‘food eaten with slice (of bread)’; cf. Vulg. Judith x 5 with v. l. TLL s. v. lapatis] , a dish made from herbs or vegetables, vegetable soup, or sim.. b cabbage (Brassica oleracea). a lappates cibus est ex quibusdam herbis domesticis recentibus lappaciis similibus compositus ‥ unde Alexander Nequam ait ‘lappates cibus est et olus componit eundem’. secundum alios [etc; b infra] Bart. Angl. XVII 94; lappates dicitur cibus ex oleribus factus, A. jutes WW (cf. CathA: iowtes, lappates; OED s. v. joute). b secundum alios lappates genus caulis habens folia lata, ut lappa, sed folia lappatis sunt mollia et crassa ‥ Bart. Angl. XVII 94; lappates, cabbochewort MS Camb. UL Dd. 11. 45 f. 108rb.

2 lapates [LL gl. by metathesis from palatha < παλάθη, cf. TLL X 1. 109. 52; perh. infl. by 1 lapates] , (cake of) dried fruit, esp. figs. labastes: in similitudine sculdre de ligno duas tales [? l. taleas] faciunt interponentes ficos ne citius putrescant Gl. Leid. 21. 20 (Judith x 5) ; a dry fige, carica, lampates CathA 129.

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