mesel

See also: mesél

Englisch

Alternative forms

• mesell, mysel

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman mesel, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French mesel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin miser (“wretched”). Compare measles.

Adjective

mesel (comparative more mesel, superlative most mesel)

1. (obsolete) Having leprosy; leprous. [14th-17th c.]

Nomen

mesel (plural mesels)

1. (obsolete) A leper. [14th-16th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     For she is […] As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh / To monkes to mynstralles · to meseles in hegges.

2. (obsolete) A wretched oder revolting person. [14th-16th c.]
   • 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Isaiah LIII:

     Verily he suffride oure sikenesses, and he bar oure sorewis; and we arettiden him as a mysel and smytun of God and maad low.

3. (obsolete) Leprosy. [15th-16th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVII:

     So hit befelle many yerys agone there happened on her a malodye, and whan she had lyene a grete whyle she felle unto a mesell, and no leche cowde remedye her [...].

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin misellus.

Nomen

mesel oblique singular, m (oblique plural meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative singular meseaus or meseax or mesiaus or mesiax or mesels, nominative plural mesel)

1. leper

Descendants

• English: measle, mesel