''Gazophylacium Anglicanum'' is a
dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...
of the
English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the is ...
first published anonymously in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
in 1689;
gazophylacium is a Latin word, borrowed from Ancient Greek ''γαζοφυλάκιον'', meaning
thesaurus.
Current scholarship attributes this work to Richard Hogarth and identifies it as a translation of Stephen Skinner's ''Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae'' of 1671. The ''Gazophylacium Anglicanum'' was reprinted in 1691 as ''A New English Dictionary''.
[Miyoshi, Kusujiro. ''The First Century of English Monolingual Lexicography''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Page xxxvi.]
Full title
"Gazophylacium Anglicanum – containing the derivation of English words, proper and common, each in an alphabet
An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syll ...
distinct : proving the Dutch and Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
to be the prime fountains : and likewise giving the similar words in most European languages, whereby any of them may be indifferently well learned, and understood : fitted to the capacity of the English reader, that may be curious to know the original of his mother-tongue"
See also
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Catholicon Anglicum
The ''Catholicon Anglicum'' is an English-to-Latin bilingual dictionary compiled in the late 15th century.
History
Writing and publishing
The ''Catholicon Anglicum'' was written in 1483. Its author was anonymous at the time of its writing ...
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References
*Miriam A. Drake, ''Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science'' (2003). .
English dictionaries
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