Thomas Henshaw, Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671)

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Date
1671
Editor
Lexicographer
Stephen Skinner Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ, Seu, Explicatio vocum Anglicarum Etymologica ex propriis fontibus, scil. ex Linguis duodecim; Anglo-Saxonica seu Anglica prisca, notata AS. Runica, Gothica, Cimbrica, seu Danica antiqua, notata Run. Dan. Franco-Theotisca, seu Teutonica vetere, notata Fr. Th. Danica recentiori, notata Dan. rec. Belgica, notata Belg. Teutonica recentiori, notata Teut. Cambro-Britanica, notata C. Br. Franco Gallica, notata Fr. Italica, notata Ir. Hispanica, notata Hisp. Latina, notata Lat. Græca, notata Gr. .... Accedit Etymologicon Botanicum, seu, Explicatio nominum omnium Vegetabilium, præsertim solo nostro assuetorum, aut quæ, licèt, peregrina sint, vulgò nota sunt, omissis interim quæ manifestè vel à Latino vel à Græco fonte promanant. Accedit & tertio vocum Forensium tum antiquarum & jam obsoletarum, tum recentium, & quæ adhuc in usu sunt, Etymologica expositio, rejectis etiam hic quæ apertè Latinos natales agnoscunt. Quarto adjectæ sunt Originationes omnium vocum antiquarum Anglicarum, quæ usque, à Wilhelmo Victore invaluerunt, & jam ante parentum ætatem in usu esse desierunt, vitatis ubique quæ non obscurè Romanam redolent prosapiam. Tandem ultimo Etymologicon Onomasticon, seu Explicatio Etymologica nominum Fluviorum, Regionum, Urbium, Oppidorum, Pagorum, Collium, Montium, Sinuum, Promontoriorum, & præcipuè Virorum & Fœminarum, quæ vel apud Anglo-Saxones olim fuerunt, vel etiam num apud nos in usa sunt; adjectis etiam nominibus celebrium Locorum, Virorum, & Mulierum, quæ in Historiis Anglicè conscriptis occurrunt, præsertim si Germanicæ originis sint, omissis interim quæ à Latino, Græco, aut Hebraico fonte, saltem manifestè, fluunt, utpote passim à multis Authoribus jamdiu satìs accuratè expositis. Omnia alphabetico ordine in quinque distinctas Classes digesta
Publication place
London
Printer
T. Roycroft
Publisher
H. Brome, R. Clavel, B. Tooke, T. Sawbridge
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • Belgic
  • Danish
  • etymology
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Latin
  • Middle English
  • Old English
  • proper name
  • Runic
  • Spanish
  • Welsh
Summary
Latin dictionary of English word etymology with a multilingual scope
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Rodomontade, vox pura puta Fr. G. est autum inepta & Thrasonica Gloriatio à Rodomonte Ariosti in Poemate, cui nomen Orlando Furioso Heroe pugnacissimo. (rrr2r)
Wing
S3947
Criticisms
Starnes and Noyes (1991): 64-65.
Arrowsmith, W. R. "[The Dictionarium Anglicum Used by Skinner]." Notes and Queries 279 (1855 March 3): 169. view record
Sources
  • Way, Albert. "The `Dictionarium Anglicum,' used by Skinner in his `Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanæ:' London, 1671." 1st series. Notes and Queries 11 (1855 February 17): 122-24, 167-69, 208-09. view record
  • Singer, W. R. "The `Dictionarium Anglicum' Used by Skinner." Notes & Queries 279 (1855 March 3): 167-69. view record