''Dictionarium quatuor linguarum'' (The Dictionary of Four Languages) is a 16th-century book by the German polymath
Hieronymus Megiser
Hieronymus Megiser (c.1554 in Stuttgart – 1618 or 1619 in Linz, Austria) was a German polymath, linguist and historian.
Career
From 1571 he studied at the University of Tübingen, and was a favourite student of the humanist and philologist N ...
that includes a multilingual dictionary and a multilingual grammar of
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
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,
Slovene,
German
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, and
Latin
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. It also includes some
Croatian words.
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Edward Stankiewicz: ''Grammars and dictionaries of the Slavic languages from the Middle Ages up to 1850'', Mouton, 1984., It was compiled and published in 1592 in
Graz
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(Austria), then part of the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
. The dictionary is the first multilingual dictionary of Slovene. The appendix, named ''Exempla aliquot declinationum et coniugationium'' (Some examples of declensions and conjugations) contains some grammar of the included languages and has been recognised as the second grammar of Slovene and the first multilingual grammar that includes Slovene. The book marks the beginning of Slovene
lexicography
Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries.
* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
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An extended edition was published under the same title in 1744 at Klagenfurt (Austria) by the
Jesuits
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. This second edition also contains example phrases in German and Slovene, illustrating the use of the entries given. The number of Slovene equivalents in this edition is notably higher; they often reflect Carinthian Slovene.
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References
External links
Dictionarum quatuor linguarum Full digitised version. Det Kongelige Bibliotek
oyal Danish Library Copenhagen. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
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