Henry Edmondson, Lingua Linguarum: The Naturall Language of Languages (1655)

Date

1655

Author

Henry Edmondson Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

ΣΥΝ ΘΕΩ. Lingua Linguarum The Naturall Language of Languages. The First Part in a Vocabulary. Wherein it is desired and endeavoured, that Tongues may be brought to teach themselves, and Words may be best fancied, understood, and remembred. Contrived, and built upon Analogy, As is further specified in the ensuing Page. A Designe further improvable, and applyable to the gaining of any Language: but here fitted for the first Fourmes in Grammar-Schooles, to acquaint them with the Latine Tongue

Publication place

London

Printer

T. Roycroft

Publisher

Humfrey Robinson

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Latin

Summary

Ten vocabulary lists, beginning with words borrowed from the Latin tongue

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
AN Herb. Herba, ae. f.

Extent

193

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Horda a Cow that us with calfe
Forda a Milch Cow
Fordus, a um the after-crop. (p. 16)

Alston

XVI.95

Wing

E 183

Other editions

1658: Wing E184 (Alston XVI.96)

Facsimiles

Edmundson, Henry. Lingua Linguarum, 1655. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 259. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record