Mosè Piccio (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: משה בן יוסף פיגו, ''Moshe ben Yosef Figu''; d. 1576) was an Ottoman lexicographer. Piccio compiled ''Zikhron Torat Moshe'' (

: זכרון תורת משה), which is a dictionary of ''

aggadic Aggadah ( he, ''ʾAggāḏā'' or ''Haggāḏā''; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ''ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ''; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Juda ...

'' terminology first published in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

in 1552.Gottheil, R. & Elbogen, I. (1906)
Pigo
In ''Jewish Encyclopedia''.

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

: Funk and Wagnalls. The dictionary's content reflects the impact of the massive migrations taking place at that time around the

Mediterranean Basin In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (; also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and w ...

.Kiron, A., & Jerchower, S. (2003)
The meaning of words: Marcus Jastrow and the making of rabbinic dictionaries
''Judaica Online Exhibitions''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

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Lexicographers from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth unknown 1576 deaths Mose People from Edirne Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century Sephardi Jews Jewish lexicographers {{rabbi-stub