Page from Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary by Elijah Levita

The Shemot Devarim (Hebrew: ,

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pronunciation : "The names of things") or ''Nomenclatura Hebraica'' (Latin, "Hebrew nomenclature") is a Yiddisch-

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dictionary (read in a right-to-left direction, as in Hebrew), which was composed by the Renaissance scholar

Elia Levita Elia Levita (13 February 146928 January 1549) (), also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Elia Levita Ashkenazi, Eliahu Levita, Eliyahu haBahur ("Elijah the Bachelor"), Elye Bokher, was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, schol ...

and published by

Paul Fagius Paul Fagius (1504 – 13 November 1549) was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew and Protestant reformer. Life Fagius was born at Rheinzabern in 1504. His father was a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he went to study at the University o ...

in the German city of Isny in the year 1542. The book begins with a bilingual Hebrew-Latin title page, with a foreword in Latin on the reverse-side. The majority of the work is dedicated to translations of Yiddish words into the three other languages and is the first-known dictionary to be collated according to the alphabetical order of the Yiddish language.Heidi Stern, 2010. p. 205 Of the 1039 entries, a little under half are organised into twelve thematic chapters, with the rest of the book covers specialist topics such as diseases, medicaments and the names of professions. The final three pages offer explanations of various Hebrew terms.Heidi Stern, 2010. p. 205

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* Helia Levita (i.e.: Elijah Levita): '' .. Nomenclatura Hebraica Autore Helia Levita Germano Grammatico, in gratiam omnium tyronum ac studiosorum linguæ sanctę.'' Isny, published by

, 1542. * Wilhelm Kaltenstadler (ed.), Helia Levita: ''Nomenclatura Hebraica: Wörterbuch Jiddisch-Deutsch-Latein-Hebräisch.'' Faksimile-Reprint Utopia Boulevard U.B.W. Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-9809509-6-4. * Moshe N. Rosenfeld (ed.): ''Nomenclatura Hebraica.'' London 1988, {{OCLC, 233860721. ** Short description in English p. 189
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* Richard Raubenheimer, Georg Biundo: ''Paul Fagius aus Rheinzabern. Sein Leben und Wirken als Reformator und Gelehrter. aul Fagius of Rheinzabern. His Life and Work as Reformer and Scholar' Verein für Pfälzische Kirchengeschichte, 1957. * Heidi Stern: ''Elia Levitas „Shemot Devarim“ von 1542'', in: Lexicographica, 26 (2010), 205–228. do
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