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- DictionaryDic·tion·ar·y/ˈdikSHəˌnerē/
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- 1. a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage: "I'll look up “love” in the dictionary"
Apr 27, 2024 · 1590s; see etymology + -ical. Related: Etymologically. etymologicon (n.) "a work in which etymologies are traced," 1640s, from Latin etymologicon, from Greek etymologikon, neuter of etymologikos (see etymology ). Plural is etymologica. etymologist.
Description. Douglas R. Harper, an American Civil War historian and copy editor for LNP Media Group, [2] [3] compiled the etymology dictionary to record the history and evolution of more than 50,000 words, including slang and technical terms. [4] The core body of its etymology information stems from The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology by ...
Edited by: T. F. Hoad. Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology contains a wealth of information about the English language and its history. Find out where the words 'bungalow' and 'assassin' came from, what 'nice ...
Recently updated. The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
Words are remains of culture, the traces left behind by years of cultural change, so by examining their origin we gain insight into the culture that created them, what semantic frame has been associated with a word throughout its history.
The Etymological Wordnet project provides information about how words in different languages are etymologically related. The information is for the most part mined from Wiktionary. The semi-structured data is turned into a machine-readable etymological database that also incorporates some additional manually added etymological relationships.
Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 9637094016, first edition.
