Guy Miège, A New Dictionary French and English, with another English and French (1677)
Date
1677
Lexicographer
Guy
Miege(alternate name for
Guy
Miège
)
Note: 12/10/2005
nationality: Swiss
Lexicon title
A NEW DICTIONARY French and English
Book title
A New Dictionary French and English, With Another English and French; According to the Present Use and Modern Orthography of the French. Inrich'd With New Words, Choice Phrases, and Apposite Proverbs; Digested Into a most accurate Method; And Contrived For the Use both of English and Foreiners
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Dawks
Publisher
Thomas Basset
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
French
Summary
Two dictionaries, French-English and English-French, that, although heavily indebted to Cotgrave (1611), eliminates words not in actual use, that is, all "Obsolete, or New-forced Words" found in his work. These excisions find a place in Miège's dictionary of barbarous French (1679). The pruning, however, does not much affect the size of Miège's work, which has 92,000 word-entries and sub-entries.
Language
headwords: French, English
explanations: English, French
explanations: English, French
explanations: English, French
explanations: English, French
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 439
number: 439
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 18376
sample: Mener une enterprise, to carry on a design. (ddd2v)
number: 18376
sample: Mener une enterprise, to carry on a design. (ddd2v)
Alston
XII.635
Wing
M2016
Other editions
1679: Wing M2017 (Alston XII.636)
Criticisms
- Janet Bately, "Miège and the Development of the English Dictionary," Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds: A Festschrift for Eric Dobson, ed. G. Stanley and Douglas Gray (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983): 1-10
Francoeur, Aline. "Portrait d'un dictionnaire révolutionnaire: Le New Dictionary French and English de Guy Miège." Seventeenth-Century French Studies 30.2 (2008): 154-69. view record
Francoeur, Aline. "The Semantic Apparatus of Guy Miège's New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French." Lexicography, Terminology, and Translation: Text-based Studies in Honour of Ingrid Meyer. Ed. Lynne Bowker. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2006. 13-24. view record
Influences
- Francoeur, Aline. "Fighting Cotgrave with Father Pomey: Guy Miège's Recourse to the Dictionaire Royal Augmenté (1671) in the Preparation of his New Dictionary French and English (1677)." International Journal of Lexicography 23.2 (June 2010): 137-55. view record
