Christopher Wase, Dictionarium Minus: A Compendious Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English (1662)

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Date

1662

Lexicographer

Christopher Wase Note: 15/10/2005

Book title

Dictionarium Minus: A Compendious Dictionary English-Latin & Latin-English. Wherein the Classical Words of both Languages are aptly rendered, And for the more sufficient Direction of Students In I. Construing: The divers Significations are distinguished, according to different Phrases, and the Tropical or Figurative Sense is set after the Proper and Natural. In II. Pearsing: The various Constructions are specified. In III. Making Latines: The Termination of the Genitive is added to the Noun, the Infinitive to the Verb, and the English Neuter is differenced from the Active. Also, The Received Names of Herbs, Plants &c. are largely inserted, divers Proverbs explain'd, and many Antiquities illustrated

Publication place

London

Publisher

David Maxwell

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Latin

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Also Latin-English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: An information (instruction.) Informatio, præceptio nis. Disciplina æ. (t4r)
Perculsus, a, um. Smitten. Casu perculsus iniquo, Struck with grief at the misfortune. Laudum perculsus amore, Touch'd with the love of praise. (ffff1r)

Alston

XV.240

Wing

W 1016

Other editions

1675: Wing W1017 (Alston XV.241)

Modern editions

Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 272-77. view record

Criticisms

Bately, Janet. "Wase, Torriano and Sherwood: Some Unacknowledged Lexical Debts." Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Eds. Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester. Costerus 133. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 13-30. view record