Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae (1578)
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Date
1578
Lexicographer
Thomas Cooper Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
THESAVRVS LINGVAE Romanae et Britannicae, tam accurate congestus,
vt nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latinè complectatur
amplissimus Stephani Thesaurus, vel Anglice, toties aucta Eliotae Bibliotheca:
opera et industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis.
Quid fructus ex hoc Thesauro studiosi possint excerpere,
et quam rationem secutus author sit in Vocabulorum
interpretatione et dispositione, post epistolam demonstratur.
ACCESSIT DICTIO NARIVM HISTO|ricum et poëticum propria
vocabula Virorum, Mulierum, Sectarum, Populorum, Vrbium, Montium,
et caeterorum locorum complectens, et in his iucundissimas
et omnium cognitione dignissimas historias.
Publication place
Londoni
Printer
Henry Denham
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual lexicon
Subject area
Latin
Summary
Two dictionaries: both Latin-English, the first
being a general vocabulary, the second being of proper
and place names. A re-edition of a book published
in 1565 and indebted to the first Renaissance
Latin-English dictionary, written by Sir Thomas
Elyot, and published in 1538.
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 393
number: 393
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 177354
sample: Hyemare, Cic. To lodge, rest, or make abode in winter tyme; to winter. Zigari, People which we doe call AEgiptians, that wander about in euery Realme, and be horrible theeues.
number: 177354
sample: Hyemare, Cic. To lodge, rest, or make abode in winter tyme; to winter. Zigari, People which we doe call AEgiptians, that wander about in euery Realme, and be horrible theeues.
STC
5688
Other editions
See earlier versions by Elyot (1538, 1542), for whom Cooper afterwards acted as assistant.
