Sebastián de Covarrubias began writing what would become the Tesoro de la lengua castellana o espa?ola in the spring of 1605. He completed the work over the course of three years, writing in Valenci ...
Sebastián de Covarrubias (1539–1613) was a Spanish lexicographer, cryptographer, chaplain and writer. He wrote the Tesoro de la lengua castellana o espa?ola.BibliographyWeiner, Jack (2003). El indi ...
Estienne was born in Paris.He displayed in his youth a genuine enthusiasm for Greek and Latin; and his father took special pains with his education, and, as a part of his general training, he undertoo ...
Robert was born in Paris, the second son of the famous humanist printer Henri Estienne (the Elder) and became acquainted early on with ancient languages. After Henri's death in 1520 the printing estab ...
Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440 – 1510), commonly known by the Latin form of his name, Calepinus, was an Italian lexicographer.Calepino was born and died in Bergamo. He entered the Augustinian Order in 14 ...
John of Genoa or Johannes Balbus (died c. 1298) was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest.At an advanced age, John gave away his wealth to the poor of Genoa and entered the Order of St Dominic. N ...
The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon (from the Greek Καθολικ?ν, universal), is a 13th-century Latin dictionary which found wide use throughout Christendom. Some of t ...
Of the 48 glossae collectae, 19 are on lemmata from Bible books, the 23 others from late antique and patristic texts. The importance of a glossary lies partly in that they indicate what was held in th ...
A dictionary is to be distinguished from a glossary. Although numerous glossaries publishing vernacular words had long been in existence, such as the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, which listed ma ...
The use of "vernacular" is not recent. In 1688, James Howell wrote:Concerning Italy, doubtless there were divers before the Latin did spread all over that Country; the Calabrian, and Apulian spoke Gre ...
A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the e ...
By the time the new supplement was completed, it was clear that the full text of the dictionary would now need to be computerized. Achieving this would require retyping it once, but thereafter it woul ...
According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to "key in" text to convert it to machine readable form which consists of a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 ...
Esoteric or Sufi interpretation attempts to unveil the inner meanings of the Quran. Sufism moves beyond the apparent (zahir) point of the verses and instead relates Quranic verses to the inner or esot ...
The word qur?ān appears about 70 times in the Quran itself, assuming various meanings. It is a verbal noun (ma?dar) of the Arabic verb qara?a (???), meaning "he read" or "he recited". The Syria ...
