John Minsheu, An English-Spanish Dictionary (1599)

Full Text

EEBO/TCP

Not available

Date

15990

Book title

A DICTIONARIE IN SPANISH and ENGLISH, first published into the English tongue by Ric. Perciuale Gent. Now enlarged and amplified with many thousand words, as by this marke * to each of them prefixed may appeere; together with the accenting of euery worde throughout the whole Dictionarie, for the true pronunciation of the language, as also for the diuers signification of one and the selfesame word: And for the learners ease and furtherance, the declining of all hard and irregular verbs; and for the same cause the former order of the Alphabet is altered, diuers hard and vncouth phrases and speeches out of sundry of the best Authors explaned, with diuers necessarie notes and especiall directions for all such as shall be desirous to attaine the perfection of the Spanish tongue. Hereunto for the further profite and pleasure of the learner or delighted in this tongue, is annexed an ample English Dictionarie, Alphabetically set downe with the Spanish words thereunto adioyned, as also an Alphabeticall Table of the Arabicke and Moorish words, now commonly receiued and vsed in the Spanish tongue, which being dispersed in their seuerall due places throughout the whole Dictionarie are marked thus †

Publication place

London

Printer

Edmund Bollifant

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual lexicon

Subject area

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Spanish
other languages: Arabic
explanations: Spanish

Extent

249-391

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: gloss
sample: a shee Dwarffe, vide Enána.

Alston

XII.i.171

STC

19620

ESTC

S115747