Francis Gouldman, A Copious Dictionary (1664)

Date

1664

Lexicographer

Francis Gouldman Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

A Copious Dictionary In Three Parts I. The English before the Latin, Enriched with about Ten thousand Words more then any former Dictionary contains, II. The Latin before the English, With correct and plentiful Etymological Derivations, Philological Observations, and Phraseological Explications, III. The Proper Names of Persons, Places, And other things necessary to the understanding of Historians and Poets, To which are adjoined A Table of Authors Names at large, which in this Book are made use of, or mentioned: and also some lesser Tractates. The whole being a Comprisal of Thomasius and Rider's Foundations, Holland's and Holyoak's Superstructure and Improvements: Together with Amendments and Enlargements very considerable for number and nature, promoted and carried on by a diligent search into, and perusal of several other Dictionaries, and many Authors ancient and modern

Publication place

London

Publisher

John Field

Transcription source

for Fisher Library

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Latin

Summary

(a) Vocabularium Anglo-Latinum; (b) Dictionarium Latino-Anglicanum; (c) Dictionarium Propria locorum & personarum vocabula complectens.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Stilts. Grallæ, f.A (a) stilt-man, or goer on stilts. Grallator, m. (s6v)
(b) Ancetum, ti. The wild Cucumber. Diosc. Coop.
(c) Erigone. The daughter of Icarius, translated into heaven, and is become the sign Virgo: hinc Erigeneus.

Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 278-90. view record
Mayor, J. E. B. "Francis Gouldman the Lexicographer." 2nd series. Notes and Queries 3.57 (1857): 86. view record