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The Promptorium parvulorum (Latin: "Storehouse for children") is an English-Latin bilingual dictionary completed around 1440 AD. It was the first English-to-Latin dictionary. [1] It occupies about 300 printed book pages. [2] The authorship is attributed to Geoffrey the Grammarian, a friar who lived in Lynn, Norfolk, England. [3]
The Manipulus Vocabulorum is an English-to-Latin dictionary that was produced in the 16th century; it is the first English rhyming dictionary. [1] [2] [3] The Manipulus Vocabulorum was published by Peter Levens in 1570. [4] It was reprinted in parallel editions in 1867 by the Camden Society, [5] the Early English Text Society, [6] and the ...
Oxford Latin Dictionary Author P. G. W. Glare Language English Publisher Oxford University Press Publication date 1968 to 1982; reprinted with corrections 1996; 2nd edition 2012 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 2,400 ISBN 978-0-19-958031-6 Dewey Decimal 473/.21 19 LC Class PA2365.E5 O9 2012 The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
A Latin Dictionary (or Harpers' Latin Dictionary, often referred to as Lewis and Short or L&S) is a popular English-language lexicographical work of the Latin language, published by Harper and Brothers of New York in 1879 and printed simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press.
Before Samuel Johnson's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
The Oxford English Dictionary stated that many important words in the English language such as diphthong were first attested in the Catholicon Anglicum. [ 7 ] The importance of the Catholicon Anglicum has been described by Ed Vaizey: [ 8 ] "The manuscript is of outstanding significance for the history of the English language, which is ...