Authority Cited: Bruno [de Segni]
Author name and dates: Bruno de Segni, of Asti (c.1045-1123)
BKG Bio-tweet: Benedictine of Asti; Bishop of Segni; Abbot of Montecassino; Pope Urban II advisor; SJ quotes from Latin to support etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: quote is cited as S. Bruno, episcopus Signiensis, in libro de Sacramentis Ecclesiae et Mysteriis, in Theologiae Cursus Completus . . . ., Parisii, 1840, p.914. Sacramentis Ecclesiae et Mysteriis with the quote was found in the title below. The edition SJ used is unknown. An English translation of the Dictionary quote is in R. DeMaria, Jr., Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning, p. 273, n.15. However, the Bruno quote appears also in the Du Cange work referenced in the etymology for amice, so SJ may not have consulted only Du Cange and not the the original Bruno text.]
Author name and dates: Bruno de Segni, of Asti (c.1045-1123)
BKG Bio-tweet: Benedictine of Asti; Bishop of Segni; Abbot of Montecassino; Pope Urban II advisor; SJ quotes from Latin to support etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: quote is cited as S. Bruno, episcopus Signiensis, in libro de Sacramentis Ecclesiae et Mysteriis, in Theologiae Cursus Completus . . . ., Parisii, 1840, p.914. Sacramentis Ecclesiae et Mysteriis with the quote was found in the title below. The edition SJ used is unknown. An English translation of the Dictionary quote is in R. DeMaria, Jr., Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning, p. 273, n.15. However, the Bruno quote appears also in the Du Cange work referenced in the etymology for amice, so SJ may not have consulted only Du Cange and not the the original Bruno text.]
- S. Brunonis Astensis Signiensium Episcopi Opera ... studio, et labore D. Mauri Marchesii ... ; Tomus primus [-secundus] .., Venetiis : apud Bertanos, 1651; amice [Dict.: Amictus quo collum stringitur, & pectus tegitur, castitatem interioris hominis designat; tegit enim cor, ne vanitates cogitet, stringit autem collum, ne inde ad linguam transeat mendacium. Bruno. Source (Brunonis Opera t.2, p.145): Et Amictus quindem, quo & collum stringitur & pectus tegitur, interioris hominis castitatem designat, Tegit enim cor, ne cogitet vanitates, stringit collum, ne inde ad linguam transeat mendacium. The two volume Opera text is at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009316614 ]