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Sarum

Sarum proper noun: salisbury, England.

Proper noun

Sarum

  1. (Old or New) Salisbury, England.
    • Although she was fairly comfortable, her movements were restricted, and her family was not allowed to visit her. Sometimes she was moved to another castle, at the city of Sarum, 25 miles (40 km) west of Winchester.2004, David Hilliam, Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Richest Queen in Medieval Europe
  2. The Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.
    • According to Hereford, the Priest went to the Epistle side and washed the Chalice with wine, saying the prayer as in Sarum; then his fingers with wine and water, saying, Let this Communion.1868, Albert Harford Pearson, The Sarum Missal, in English [by A.H. Pearson], page xlix

Origin of Sarum

From medieval abbreviations of Middle English Sarisberie, Sarisburie (the spelling attested in the Domesday Book) as Sar̅ or Saꝝ. Because such marks were usually used to abbreviate the Latin ending -rum, by the 13th century some writers mistakenly assumed the full name was Sarum (by the 14th century, Robert Wyvil described himself as episcopus Sarum). For more, see Salisbury.

Words formed from Sarum

Questions about Sarum

What does Sarum mean?
Sarum means salisbury, England.
What part of speech is Sarum?
Sarum is a proper noun.

Words near Sarum in the dictionary

  1. saruj
  2. Saruk
  3. Saruks
  4. sarule
  5. sarules
  6. Sarum
  7. Sarumian
  8. Sarumyan
  9. sarung
  10. Sarungbam
  11. sarungs

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