Osbern Pinnock of Gloucester (1123–1200) was an English

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monk of

St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishment of a minster dedicated to S ...

, and a lexicographical writer. His ''Panormia'', or ''Derivationes'' (''Liber Derivationum''), was a Latin word list compiled from about 1150 to 1180. It contained elements of both the

glossary A glossary (from grc, γλῶσσα, ''glossa''; language, speech, wording) also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of Term (language), terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Tradi ...

of rarer words, and derivations (based on

etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

) and so was innovative; but at this stage the two aspects were kept separate. This work was printed by

Angelo Mai Angelo Mai (''Latin'' Angelus Maius; 7 March 17828 September 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts. These he was able to discove ...

in 1836 as ''Thesaurus novus latinitatis''; its authorship is a later attribution of

Wilhelm Meyer Wilhelm Meyer may refer to: * Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934), German mathematician * Wilhelm Meyer (philologist) (1845–1917), who identified the poems of Hugh Prima * Wilhelm Meyer, inculpated in the Adolph Beck case * Wilhelm Meyer (physicia ...

. It was widely circulated, and influenced later work of

Huguccio Huguccio (Hugh of Pisa, Uguccio) (c. 1140- died 1210) was an Italian canon lawyer. Biography Huguccio studied at Bologna, probably under Gandolphus, and taught canon law in the same city, perhaps in the school connected with the monastery of S ...

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