Caxton

English Etymology From en enm Caxton. Pronunciation en /ˈkæk.stən/ en ækstən 2 Proper noun en. en printing A kind of printing-type in imitation of William Caxton's. en village/and/cpar in dist/South Cambridgeshire co/Cambridgeshire cc/England OS grid ref TL3058. Derived terms en Caxtonian Noun Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. en 1880 The Enemies of Books w:William Blades 37 I recall vividly a bright summer morning, many years ago, when, in search of Caxtons, I entered the inner quadrangle of a certain wealthy College in one of our learned Universities. en 2011 Seymour De Ricci English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts (1530-1930) 43 This remarkable passion of the British nobility for editiones principes and Caxtons seems to have lasted but a couple of decades. en eponyms Middle English Etymology Possibly from Caxton, Cambridgeshire, from enm ang Caustone (Domesday Book, 1086), from Cah (name of an Anglo-Saxon settler), Kakkr (Scandinavian personal name), or ker (“umbelliferous plants”) + ang tūn.George D. Painter George D. Painter William Caxton: A Biography New York, N.Y. G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1976 1977 There is a Caxton in Cambridgeshire, near a crossway on the Roman road of Ermine Street nine miles west of Cambridge, where to this day one of the last gibbets in England looms squat and weather-blackened, once a good pull-up for highwaymen. The derivation seems uncertain, but the name and spelling fit our man, and have led some enquirers to favour this Cambridgeshire village as the starting-point of the Printer’s stock.Working from the later, twelfth-century forms Kachestone, Cakeston, the great etymologist Skeat suggested an original Cahestun, meaning the farm of an Anglosaxon settler named Cah; but the equally great Ekwall preferred a derivation from the Scandinavian personal name Kakkr (with which the chief present-day specialist P. H. Reaney concurs), or else from ker meaning umbelliferous plants. Proper noun enm Caxton enm w:William Caxton Et sic est finis The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres Westminster, London William Caxton 1477 folio 74, recto Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophres enprynted. by me william Caxton at westmestre the yere of our lord .M.CCCC.Lxx vij. Descendants en Caxton References