Richard Hogarth, Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689)

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Date
1689
Editor
Lexicographer
Stephen Skinner Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
Gazophylacium Anglicanum: Containing The Derivation Of English Words, Proper and Common, Each in an Alphabet distinct: Proving the Dutch and Saxon to be the prime Fountains. And likewise giving the Similar Words in most European Languages, whereby any of them may be indifferently well Learned, and Understood. Fitted to the Capacity of the English Reader, that may be curious to know the Original of his Mother-tongue
Publication place
London
Printer
E. H. and W. H.
Publisher
Randall Taylor
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
  • Danish
  • dialects (in English)
  • Dutch
  • etymology
  • French
  • Greek
  • hard words
  • Hebrew
  • Italian
  • Latin
  • Old English
  • Syriac
  • Welsh
Summary
An etymological dictionary of English, written in English, based on Stephen Skinner's Latin Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671). This Gasophylacium text has over 22,000 etymological tags.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Old English, Teutonic, Belgium, Danish, etc.
explanations: English
Pages type
556
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 67
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 8426
sample: Kenchester, in the Country of Heref. by Anton. call'd Ariconium, out of the Ruins whereof Hereford was built. (ff1v)
Alston
V.75
Wing
G426
Catalog
Kennedy 6191
Other editions
1691: Wing N637A (A New English Dictionary; Alston V.76)
Facsimiles
Anonymous. Gazophylacium anglicanum, 1689. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 166. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record
Criticisms
Arber II.340; Starnes, Noyes, and Stein (1991): 64-68
Miyoshi, Kusujiro. "Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689), a turning point in the history of the general English dictionary." Kernerman Dictionary News 16 (2008 July): view record
Sources
Skinner, Stephen, Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671)