Richard Perceval, A Dictionary in Spanish and English (1623)

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Date

1623

Lexicographer

Richard Percival (alternate name for Richard Perceval ) Note: 12/10/2005
John Minsheu Note: 12/10/2005

Book title

A Dictionary in Spanish and English: First Pvblished 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 appeare; together with the accenting of euery word thorowout 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 explained, with diuers necessary notes and especiall directions for all such as shall be desirous to attaine the perfection of the Spanish Tongue. All done by Iohn Minsheu Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the further profit 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 †; by the same Iohn Minsheu

Publication place

London

Printer

John Hauiland

Publisher

Matthew Lownes

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Spanish

Summary

A re-edition of Minsheu's previous Spanish-English lexicons, to which is added an English-Spanish dictionary on pp. 249-383 that has about 19,500 word-entries.

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Paxarítos, little birds, or such toies made of bread, &c. for children to play with. (p. 186)
a Dibble to set herbes in a garden, vide Almoçáfre. (p. 287)
† çabullír, to dine vnder water. (p. 387)