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单词 nepte
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nepten.

Forms: Old English næpte, Old English nefte, Old English–1500s nepte, Middle English nepta, Middle English nepter, Middle English 1600s nept.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nepeta.
Etymology: < classical Latin nepeta nepeta n. Compare Middle Dutch nepte , nipte (Dutch neppe , nippe ), German Nept , Nepte , Nepten (1519 or earlier as Nebten ), and also Anglo-Norman nepte (late 13th cent.), Middle French nepte (15th cent.), Old Occitan nepta (13th cent.), post-classical Latin nepta (13th cent. in a British source). Compare nep n.1, nip n.2
Obsolete.
= catmint n.
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cat-worta1450
nepa1475
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OE Lacnunga (2001) I. clxx. 118 Neptan sæd & wuduhrofan sæd.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xcv. 140 Ðas wyrte man nepitamon & oþrum naman nepte nemneþ.
?a1350 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 185 [Nepeta] nepte .i. cattesminte.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 353 Nepte, herbe, Nepta.
c1450 Stockh. Med. MS in Anglia (1896) 18 209 Nepte or cattys mynte, nepta.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 982 The columbyne, the nepte, The ieloffer well set.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlix. 320 Cats mint or nept is a kinde of calamint.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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