A book which explains or translates, usually in alphabetical order, the words of a language or languages (or of a particular category of vocabulary), giving for each word its typical spelling, an explanation of its meaning or meanings, and often other information, such as pronunciation, etymology, synonyms, equivalents in other languages, and illustrative examples. and The Evolution of English Lexicography ( 1900) 18) postulated the derivation of the noun from an adjective dictionarius or a phrase dictionarius liber however, there seems to be no evidence for the currency of either before 1220, and the care with which the noun dictionarius is explained in the introduction to John of Garland’s work suggests a fresh coinage rather than the functional shift of an existing word.Ī. In classical Latin the suffix -ārius -ary suffix 1 more normally formed adjectives, or nouns denoting kinds of person, than nouns denoting kinds of thing (but compare commentārius commentary n.), and this explains why J. Hunt Teaching & Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Cent. explains that the book ‘Dictionarius dicitur, non ab unica dictione i unico vocabulo, immo a dictione large sumpta i a sermone’ (is called Dictionarius, not from dictio in the sense ‘single word’ but from dictio in the sense ‘connected speech’): see T. The book was meant as a guide to Latin composition, and so an introduction probably by John and certainly of the 13th cent.
The post-classical Latin word dictionarius appears to have been coined by the English-born Parisian teacher John of Garland as a name for one of his elementary Latin textbooks, in which lexical items are grouped thematically in 84 short paragraphs.
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