sarcellen.

Brit.

/sɑːˈsɛl/, U.S.

/sɑrˈsɛl/

Forms: Also Middle English cercelle, Middle English sorcell (?), 1500s sarcell.

Etymology: < Old French cercelle (13th cent.), modern French sarcelle = Provençal sercela (compare medieval Latin cercella, Higden) < popular Latin *cercedula-, for classical Latin querquedula.

A name for the teals and closely allied ducks (e.g. the garganey, the long-tailed duck).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal)

teal1314

Colman's birda1387

sarcellea1387

cercelle1387

greenwing1813

teal-duck1845

jay-teal1885

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 371 In Lagenia is a ponde; þere is Seynt Colman his briddes; þe briddes beeþ i-cleped cercelles.

c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Sorcell or a tele, and breke his necke.

1513 Bk. Kernynge (W. de W.) B j b Take a sarcell or a teele, and reyse his wynges.

1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 217 The Sarcelles, which we cannot better paint in general terms than by saying, that they are ducks much smaller than the others.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 240 The White and Black Sarcelle; or, the Nun.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 243 The Brown and White Sarcelle.1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 266/2.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sarcelle
释义	sarcellen. Brit. /sɑːˈsɛl/, U.S. /sɑrˈsɛl/ Forms: Also Middle English cercelle, Middle English sorcell (?), 1500s sarcell. Etymology: < Old French cercelle (13th cent.), modern French sarcelle = Provençal sercela (compare medieval Latin cercella, Higden) < popular Latin cercedula-, for classical Latin querquedula. A name for the teals and closely allied ducks (e.g. the garganey, the long-tailed duck). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal) teal1314 Colman's birda1387 sarcellea1387 cercelle1387 greenwing1813 teal-duck1845 jay-teal1885 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron.* (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 371 In Lagenia is a ponde; þere is Seynt Colman his briddes; þe briddes beeþ i-cleped cercelles. c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 79 Take a Sorcell or a tele, and breke his necke. 1513 Bk. Kernynge (W. de W.) B j b Take a sarcell or a teele, and reyse his wynges. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 217 The Sarcelles, which we cannot better paint in general terms than by saying, that they are ducks much smaller than the others.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 240 The White and Black Sarcelle; or, the Nun.1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds IX. 243 The Brown and White Sarcelle.1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. a1818 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 266/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387
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