"bookstaff" meaning in Anglais

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en moyen anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en vieil anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du moyen anglais bocstaff ; du vieil anglais bōcstæf. Équivalent à book + staff. Apparenté au frison saterlandais Boukstäf, au bas allemand Bookstaav, à l’allemand Buchstabe, au danois bogstav, au suédois bokstav, au norvégien bokstav, au féroïen bókstavur et à l’islandais bókstafur. Probablement une semi-renaissance du terme provenant du vieil anglais."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bookstaffs",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbʊkˌstæfs\\",
        "\\ˈbʊk.stɪvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bookstaves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbʊkˌstæfs\\",
        "\\ˈbʊk.stɪvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bookstave"
    },
    {
      "word": "runestaff"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes archaïques en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes rares en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The American Educational Monthly - Volume 7, Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Company, page 449, 1870",
          "text": "And tat he looke well that he (And that he look well that he), An bookstaff write tweis (A letter write twice), Eywhere then it upo this book (Wherever then it upon this book) Is written o that wise (Is written on that wise), For he ne may nought elles (For he may not else) On English writen right te word (In English write right the word)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, The Builder, volume 46:",
          "text": "As the “bookstaff” had vanished before the littera, another substance had to be employed for the purpose of writing, and the skins of animals, properly prepared and called bók fell, or book skins, appeared."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin magazine, page 21, 1932",
          "text": "This is Aleph, says Isaac ; the first bookstaff in the grammatic."
        },
        {
          "ref": "James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time, Canongate Books, 2019",
          "text": "‘I can’t read bookstaves, but Holiday learned himself,’ said Softly. […] ‘He learned me a bare five bookstaves, but it was enough to read a whole word.’"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ou Une lettre (de l’alphabet)."
      ],
      "id": "fr-bookstaff-en-noun-UDpVqrGv",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊkˌstæf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stɪf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stɑːf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stəf\\"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "plus courant",
      "word": "letter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookstaff"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en moyen anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en vieil anglais",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du moyen anglais bocstaff ; du vieil anglais bōcstæf. Équivalent à book + staff. Apparenté au frison saterlandais Boukstäf, au bas allemand Bookstaav, à l’allemand Buchstabe, au danois bogstav, au suédois bokstav, au norvégien bokstav, au féroïen bókstavur et à l’islandais bókstafur. Probablement une semi-renaissance du terme provenant du vieil anglais."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bookstaffs",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbʊkˌstæfs\\",
        "\\ˈbʊk.stɪvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bookstaves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbʊkˌstæfs\\",
        "\\ˈbʊk.stɪvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bookstave"
    },
    {
      "word": "runestaff"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Termes archaïques en anglais",
        "Termes rares en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The American Educational Monthly - Volume 7, Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Company, page 449, 1870",
          "text": "And tat he looke well that he (And that he look well that he), An bookstaff write tweis (A letter write twice), Eywhere then it upo this book (Wherever then it upon this book) Is written o that wise (Is written on that wise), For he ne may nought elles (For he may not else) On English writen right te word (In English write right the word)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1884, The Builder, volume 46:",
          "text": "As the “bookstaff” had vanished before the littera, another substance had to be employed for the purpose of writing, and the skins of animals, properly prepared and called bók fell, or book skins, appeared."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin magazine, page 21, 1932",
          "text": "This is Aleph, says Isaac ; the first bookstaff in the grammatic."
        },
        {
          "ref": "James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time, Canongate Books, 2019",
          "text": "‘I can’t read bookstaves, but Holiday learned himself,’ said Softly. […] ‘He learned me a bare five bookstaves, but it was enough to read a whole word.’"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ou Une lettre (de l’alphabet)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊkˌstæf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stɪf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stɑːf\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈbʊk.stəf\\"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "plus courant",
      "word": "letter"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookstaff"
}