Elisha Coles, A Dictionary, English-Latin and Latin-English (1677)
Date
1677
Author
Lexicographer
Book title
A Dictionary, English-Latin, And Latin-English, Containing All things Necessary for the Translating of either Language into the other. To which end Many things that were Erroneous are rectified, many superfluities retrenched, and very many defects supplied. And All suited to the meanest Capacities in a plainer Method than heretofore: being (for ease) reduced to an Alphabetical Order, and explained in the Mother Tongue. And Towards the completing of the English Part (which has been long desired) here are added Thousands of Words, Phrases, Proverbs, proper Names, and many other usefull things mentioned in the Preface to the Work
Publication place
London
Publisher
Peter Parker
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- hard words
- Latin
- proper name
Language
headwords: English, Latin
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
explanations: Latin, English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 45
number: 45
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 25707
sample: American disease, the Great, Spanish, Naples or French Pox.
number: 25707
sample: American disease, the Great, Spanish, Naples or French Pox.
Alston
XVI.360
Wing
C5071
Other editions
1679: Wing C5069-79a (Alston XVI.361-63);
1685: not in Wing (Alston XVI.364);
1692: Wing C5069c, -69ca (Alston XVI.365, 367);
1693: Wing C5069cb (Alston XVI.366);
1699: Wing C5069d (Alston XVI.368)
1685: not in Wing (Alston XVI.364);
1692: Wing C5069c, -69ca (Alston XVI.365, 367);
1693: Wing C5069cb (Alston XVI.366);
1699: Wing C5069d (Alston XVI.368)
Criticisms
- Arber I.293
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. Renaissance Dictionaries, English-Latin and Latin-English. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1954. 300-08. view record
Carlton, W. J. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 8): 11. view record
Bensly, Edward. "The Identity of Elisha Coles: Oxford, `the Eye of England'." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 22): 49. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record
