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Old English · noun

feldoxa

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
weak
IPA
/ˈfeldˌok.sɑ/
[ˈfeɫdˌok.sɑ]
Syllables
ˈfeld · ˌok · sɑ (3 syllables)
Modern English
keptoxpasture

Meaning

  1. an ox kept in a pasture

    Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fætte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.

    And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.

    Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Declension

Declension of feldoxa
SingularPlural
Nominative feldoxafeldoxan
Accusative feldoxanfeldoxan
Genitive feldoxanfeldoxena
Dative feldoxanfeldoxum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From feld (“field”) + oxa (“ox”)

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