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The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville - Pot-pourri

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422 General index<br />

beard (grain) 338<br />

beast 251–254<br />

<strong>of</strong> burden 247<br />

beaver 253, 384<br />

wool 388<br />

bedbug 259<br />

bedframe 403<br />

bedroom 308<br />

bee 269<br />

beech tree 345<br />

bee-eater 266<br />

beer 398<br />

beet 356<br />

Behemoth 185<br />

being 82<br />

Bel 185<br />

Belgica 291<br />

beli oculus 325<br />

Bellerophon 246<br />

bellicum pallium 386<br />

bellua 260<br />

bellum 359<br />

belly 240<br />

Belphegor 185<br />

Belshazzar 168<br />

belt 392<br />

Belus 325<br />

Belus (river) 328<br />

Belzebub 185<br />

bench 403<br />

beneola 354<br />

Benjamin 166<br />

ben-nut 354<br />

Berenice 303<br />

berry 340<br />

beryl 322<br />

Bessians 197<br />

bestia 251<br />

beta 356<br />

Bethel 302<br />

Bethlehem 302<br />

betrothed 210<br />

bibio 270<br />

Bible 90, 135–138, 272<br />

apostolic writings 135<br />

authors <strong>of</strong> 136–138<br />

books <strong>of</strong> (see under individual<br />

books)<br />

canon 135<br />

Law, five books <strong>of</strong> 135<br />

moral sense 135<br />

names in 162–165, 170<br />

narrative 135<br />

New Testament 135<br />

classes <strong>of</strong> writing 135<br />

number <strong>of</strong> books 135, 139<br />

Old Testament 39, 135, 139, 334,<br />

352<br />

Prophets, eight books <strong>of</strong> 135<br />

three kinds <strong>of</strong> content 135<br />

translations <strong>of</strong> 139<br />

‘Writings,’ nine books <strong>of</strong> 135<br />

bibliopola 142<br />

bibliotheca 138, 310<br />

bicinium 147<br />

bier 403<br />

Big and Little Dipper 273<br />

Big Dipper 100, 104, 271, 272, 275<br />

biga 368<br />

bigener 250–251<br />

Bilbilis 331<br />

bile 239<br />

bile, black 109<br />

bipennis 234, 383<br />

bipinnis (see bipennis)<br />

birds<br />

kinds <strong>of</strong> 263–269<br />

origin <strong>of</strong> names <strong>of</strong> 264<br />

bireme 374<br />

birrus 387<br />

birth 231<br />

order <strong>of</strong>, four types 207<br />

birthwort 353<br />

bishop 170, 171<br />

four orders <strong>of</strong> 170<br />

bissextus 145<br />

bit, horse 405<br />

Bithynia 288, 303, 351<br />

bitumen 317<br />

bivium 316<br />

black 250<br />

black-tail (fish) 261<br />

bladder 240<br />

gall 239<br />

blade<br />

(grain) 338<br />

(oar) 374<br />

(sword) 362<br />

blame 69, 86<br />

blatta 270<br />

blatteum 270, 389<br />

blavum 389<br />

Blemmyans 245<br />

blite 356<br />

blood 109, 239<br />

bloodletting 114<br />

‘bloom’ (bronze) 331<br />

boa 257<br />

boa 256<br />

Boanerges 169<br />

boar 248<br />

board 382<br />

boca 260<br />

body 231, 232–241<br />

parts <strong>of</strong>, purpose <strong>of</strong> 241<br />

Boeotia 290<br />

Boethius 81, 89<br />

bogue 260<br />

boia 124<br />

bolster 388<br />

bombycina 384<br />

bombycinum 259, 384<br />

bombyx 259, 384<br />

bona (goods) 121<br />

bone 236<br />

Bonosiac 177<br />

book(s) 142<br />

collection 139<br />

manufacture <strong>of</strong> 141<br />

medical 114<br />

sizes <strong>of</strong> 141<br />

terminology <strong>of</strong> 142<br />

boot 393<br />

Bootes 103, 105<br />

bootmaker 393<br />

booty 360<br />

booty-share 361<br />

Bordeaux 304<br />

border<br />

(cloth) 387, 392<br />

(land) 300<br />

Boreas 275<br />

Boreus 100, 272<br />

Borion 297<br />

borrowing 55<br />

bos 248–249<br />

boss (shield) 237, 364<br />

botanical treatise 110<br />

botanicum 114<br />

botrax 257<br />

botrus 340<br />

boulevard 306<br />

boundary (land) 315<br />

boundary-line 315<br />

bow 364<br />

bowel 240<br />

box tree 347<br />

boy 207, 241<br />

bracae 385

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