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Sarum
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šārum
English
Etymology
From medieval abbreviations of en enm Sarisberie,David Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, 2003 enm Sarisburie (the spelling attested in the Domesday Book) as unk Sar̅ or unk 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 enm Sarum (by the 14th century, Robert Wyvil described himself as la episcopus Sarum).https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp93-94 Victoria County History A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 6 Salisbury: The word 'Sarum' 93–94 Crittall, Elizabeth 1962 University of London 5 November 2021 For more, see en Salisbury.
Proper noun
(Old or New) Salisbury, England.
en 2004 David Hilliam Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Richest Queen in Medieval Europe 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.
The Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.
en 1868 Albert Harford Pearson The Sarum Missal, in English [by A.H. Pearson] xlix 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.
Derived terms
New Sarum
Old Sarum
References
Anagrams
en amrsu Masur Surma Umars amurs arums musar ramus rusma surma