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† ˈpassions Obs.
Also 6 pationes, 6–7 pas(s)hions.
[app. in origin a corruption of patience, name of a dock, Rumex Patientia, early cultivated for its leaves eaten as spinach; subseq. associated by popular etymology with Passiontide, and transferred locally to the Bistort, also in some parts used as a pot-herb, which, says Lyte p. 22, ‘hath long leaues, like Patience, but smaller, and not so smooth or playne’.]
A name given in the north and north-west of England to the Bistort, Polygonum Bistorta. (See also passion-dock, patience 4, patience-dock.)
1568Turner Herbal iii. 12 Bistorta is called in some places..Astrologia, and in some places Pationes, but there is no general name for it. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxi. §2. 323 Bistorta is called..in Cheshire Passhions,..and there vsed for an excellent potherbe. 1611Cotgr., Britanique, Brittannica..Snakeweed, Pashions, Oisterloite. 1706Phillips, Bistort or Snake-weed, an Herb..otherwise call'd Adders⁓wort, English Serpentary, Oisterich and Pastions.
[Note. Mod. Ital. has ‘Lapazio, sorrel, an herb so called’ (Baretti); Florio (1611) has ‘Lapato, the wild Docke or Patience’. These names represent L. lapathum, -ium, Gr. λάπαθον, sorrel, a kind of rumex. Some have conjectured that the name ‘passions’ or ‘passion-dock’ arose from a corruption of It. lapazio to la passio the Passion (of Christ); but this takes no note of the chronological sequence of the names patientia, patience, pationes, passions, passion dock.] |