''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 Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

, Slovene,

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, and

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. It also includes some Croatian words.Google knjige
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

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(Austria), then part of the

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. 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. * Theoretica ...

. An extended edition was published under the same title in 1744 at Klagenfurt (Austria) by the

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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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Dictionarum quatuor linguarum
Full digitised version. Det Kongelige Bibliotek oyal Danish Library Copenhagen. Retrieved 20 March 2012. {{Authority control Slovene dictionaries German dictionaries Italian dictionaries Latin dictionaries 1592 books History of linguistics Cultural history of Slovenia Cultural history of Croatia