John Baret, An Alveary or Triple Dictionary, in English, Latin, and French (1574)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1574
Lexicographer
John Baret Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
An Alvearie Or Triple Dictionarie, in Englishe, Latin, and French: Very profitable for all such as be desirous of any of those three Languages. Also by the two Tables in the ende of this booke, they may contrariwise, finde the most necessary Latin or French wordes, placed after the order of an Alphabet, whatsoeuer are to be founde in any other Dictionarie: and so to turne them backwardes againe into Englishe when they reade any Latin or French Aucthors, & doubt of any harde worde therein
Publication place
London
Publisher
Henry Denham
Transcription source
EEBO (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • French
  • Greek
  • Latin
Summary
Numbered word-entries, in which headwords are bold-faced and noted by a paragraphus, and to which the French and Latin word-indexes are keyed
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
other languages: Greek, French
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Abhorryng of things, or lothing: destre or wil to vomit. Nausea, æ, f. gen. Plin. ναυτίασις Fastidium. Appetit de vomir. Vide Lothe.
Alston
XV.752
STC
1410
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 2712. view record
Other editions
1580: STC 1411 (enhanced by Abraham Fleming; Alston XV.753)
Criticisms
Dobson, Eric J. English Pronunciation 1500-1700. 1957. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. I: 30-31 . view record
Sledd, J. H. "Baret's Alvearie, an Elizabethan Reference Book." Studies in Philology 43 (1946): 147-63. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 184-217. view record
Stein, Gabriele. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1985. 273-95 . view record
Porter, David W. "The Renaissance Lexicographers Huloet and Baret." Notes and Queries 48.2 (June 2001): 114-17. view record
Sledd, James H. "Nugae Academicae: Some Remarks on the 'Alvearie' of John Barret." Library Chronicle 1 (1944 Summer): 19-26. view record
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Influences
  • Koppelman, George, and Daniel Wechsler. Shakespeare's Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light. New York: Axletree Books, 2014. view record