Ormulum

The English word “Ormulum” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.

Etymology

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

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