clepe

[ kleep ]

/ klip /

to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).

Origin of clepe

before 900; Middle English clepen, Old English cleopian, variant of clipian; akin to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle

And this star that is toward the north, that we clepe the Lode-star, ne appeareth not to them.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville |John Mandeville
And there be also urchins, as great as wild swine here; we clepe them Porcz de Spine.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville |John Mandeville
And then he made many statutes and ordinances that they clepe Ysya Chan.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville |John Mandeville
For schal I clepe it a felonie an or a synne at I haue desired e sauuacioun of e ordre of e senat.

Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' |Geoffrey Chaucer

And between that river and the great sea Ocean, that p. 169they clepe the Sea Maure, lie all these realms.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville |John Mandeville

clepe

/ (kliːp) /

(tr) archaic to call by the name of

Old English cleopian; related to Middle Low German kleperen to rattle