Richard Hogarth, Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689)

Date

1689

Editor

Richard Hogarth

Lexicographer

Stephen Skinner Note: 13/10/2005

Book title

Gazophylacium Anglicanum: Containing The Derivation Of English Words, Proper and Common, Each in an Alphabet distinct: Proving the Dutch and Saxon to be the prime Fountains. And likewise giving the Similar Words in most European Languages, whereby any of them may be indifferently well Learned, and Understood. Fitted to the Capacity of the English Reader, that may be curious to know the Original of his Mother-tongue

Publication place

London

Printer

E. H. and W. H.

Publisher

Randall Taylor

Text type

printed book

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

• Danish
• dialects (in English)
• Dutch
• etymology
• French
• Greek
• hard words
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Latin
• Old English
• Syriac
• Welsh

Summary

An etymological dictionary of English, written in English, based on Stephen Skinner's Latin Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671). This Gasophylacium text has over 22,000 etymological tags.

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Old English, Teutonic, Belgium, Danish, etc.
explanations: English

Pages type

556

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 67

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 8426
sample: Kenchester, in the Country of Heref. by Anton. call'd Ariconium, out of the Ruins whereof Hereford was built. (ff1v)

Alston

V.75

Wing

G426

Catalog

Kennedy 6191

Other editions

1691: Wing N637A (A New English Dictionary; Alston V.76)

Facsimiles

Anonymous. Gazophylacium anglicanum, 1689. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 166. Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. view record

Criticisms

Miyoshi, Kusujiro. "Gazophylacium Anglicanum (1689), a turning point in the history of the general English dictionary." Kernerman Dictionary News 16 (2008 July): view record

Sources

Skinner, Stephen, Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671)