Notas léxicas altomedievales. 1. Un empleo inusitado del adjetivo purus, a, um. 2. Un nuevo testimonio del verbo purare

Abstract

Two medical recipes, unpublished so far, attest new meanings for two words : purus, a, um, used as a qualifier for a person who performs an action all by himself (in other words, purus is employed here as a synonym of solus) ; and a novel use of purare, a verb known hitherto only from Festus, where, however, its meaning differs from that found in our recipe. The two passages, both from the early middle ages, are printed together with the sources they are based on, and this allows us to understand the meaning of the two words as precisely as possible.