lustbære

Old English[edit]

From lust +‎ -bǣre.

lustbǣre

desirous, desirable, pleasant, agreeable
- c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, "Genesis;" reprinted and normalized in Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, Oxford.: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1992, reprinted in 1999, Part II, Section 2, page 174, lines 11-13:
  Þā ġeseah þæt wīf þæt þæt trēow wæs gōd tō etanne, be þām þe hire þūhte, and wlitiġ on ēagum and lustbǣre on ġesihðe;
  Then saw the woman that the tree was good to eat, as she thought, and beautiful to the eyes and desirable in sight;

Declension of lustbǣre — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lustbǣre	lustbǣru, lustbǣro	lustbǣre
Accusative	lustbǣrne	lustbǣre	lustbǣre
Genitive	lustbǣres	lustbǣrre	lustbǣres
Dative	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrre	lustbǣrum
Instrumental	lustbǣre	lustbǣrre	lustbǣre
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lustbǣre	lustbǣra, lustbǣre	lustbǣru, lustbǣro
Accusative	lustbǣre	lustbǣra, lustbǣre	lustbǣru, lustbǣro
Genitive	lustbǣrra	lustbǣrra	lustbǣrra
Dative	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum
Instrumental	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum

Declension of lustbǣre — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lustbǣra	lustbǣre	lustbǣre
Accusative	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣre
Genitive	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣran
Dative	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣran
Instrumental	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣran
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣran
Accusative	lustbǣran	lustbǣran	lustbǣran
Genitive	lustbǣrra, lustbǣrena	lustbǣrra, lustbǣrena	lustbǣrra, lustbǣrena
Dative	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum
Instrumental	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum	lustbǣrum

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lust-bǽre”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.