John Higgins, The Nomenclator or Remembrancer (1585)
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Date
1585
Lexicographer
Adrianus Junius (alternate name for Hadrianus Junius )
Book title
The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Iunius Physician, diuided in two Tomes, conteining proper names and apt termes for all thinges vnder their conuenient Titles, which within a few leaues doe follow: Written by the said Ad. Iu. in Latine, Greeke, French and other forrein tongues: and now in English, by Iohn Higins: With a full supplie of all such words as the last inlarged edition affoorded; and a dictional Index, conteining aboue fourteene hundred principall words with their numbers directly leading to their interpretations. Of special vse for all scholars and learners of the same languages
Publication place
London
Publisher
Ralph Newberie and Henrie Denham
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- French
- Greek
- Latin
Summary
Latin words rendered into Latin, Greek, French, and English
Language
headwords: Latin
explanations: Greek
other languages: French, English
explanations: Greek
explanations: Greek
other languages: French, English
explanations: Greek
Extent
539
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Libellus. Suet. libellus supplex, Martial. ιχετηρια Aristoph. ιχέτευμα , Thucyd. ιχλρία, Epigra. GAL. Vne requeste, ou supplication. ANG. A bill of request: a supplication.
sample: Libellus. Suet. libellus supplex, Martial. ιχετηρια Aristoph. ιχέτευμα , Thucyd. ιχλρία, Epigra. GAL. Vne requeste, ou supplication. ANG. A bill of request: a supplication.
Alston
II.72
STC
14860
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. 2714, 2716 . view record
Other editions
For editions with few English words and printed abroad, see Alston, II: 81-99.
Criticisms
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 356-58. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 356-58. view record
Sources
- Junius, Hadrianus. Nomenclator Omnium Rerum. Documenta linguistica: Reihe 1, Wörterbücher des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Hildesheim and New York: G. Olms, 1976. view record
