Sarum

English

Etymology

A Latinzed form of Sar, a medieval abbreviation of Middle English Sarisberie.[1]

Proper noun

Sarum

  1. (Old or New) Salisbury, England.
    • 2004, David Hilliam, Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Richest Queen in Medieval Europe:
      Although she was fairly comfortable, her movements were restricted, and her family was not allowed to visit her. Sometimes she was moved to another castle, at the city of Sarum, 25 miles (40 km) west of Winchester.
  2. The Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.
    • 1868, Albert Harford Pearson, The Sarum Missal, in English [by A.H. Pearson], page xlix:
      According to Hereford, the Priest went to the Epistle side and washed the Chalice with wine, saying the prayer as in Sarum; then his fingers with wine and water, saying, Let this Communion.

Derived terms
  • New Sarum
  • Old Sarum

References
  1. David Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, 2003
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