dictionarius

And aside from that, the word dictionary is first attested in 1526 "And so Peter Bercharius in his dictionary describeth it", not 1538, and dictionarius or dictionarium had been used for centuries in Latin, so that the English word hardly needed to be "invented"; again, this information is right there in the OED.

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We find dictionarius first used in this sense in the thirteenth century by an Englishman, John Garland, and dictionarium in the fourteenth; but the first work published in England under the English title 'Dictionary' was the famous Latin-English Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot which appeared in 1588, the year before Robert Estienne, of the greatest of all dictionary-making dynasties, published his Dictionnaire François-Latin.

On Dictionaries 1969

Although, as we have seen, the words dictionarius and dictionarium occur, most compilers use more fanciful titles, such as the Ortus Vocabularum, 'the garden of words'; the Promptorium Parvulorum, 'the storehouse of the little clerks,' of which many editions were afterwards printed by Wynkyn de Worde; or the Catholicon Anglicum, 'the English universal remedy.'

On Dictionaries 1969

Although, as we have seen, the words dictionarius and dictionarium occur, most compilers use more fanciful titles, such as the Ortus Vocabularum, 'the garden of words'; the Promptorium Parvulorum, 'the storehouse of the little clerks,' of which many editions were afterwards printed by Wynkyn de Worde; or the Catholicon Anglicum, 'the English universal remedy.'

On Dictionaries 1924

We find dictionarius first used in this sense in the thirteenth century by an Englishman, John Garland, and dictionarium in the fourteenth; but the first work published in England under the English title 'Dictionary' was the famous Latin-English Dictionary of Sir Thomas Elyot which appeared in 1588, the year before Robert Estienne, of the greatest of all dictionary-making dynasties, published his Dictionnaire François-Latin.

On Dictionaries 1924

This is a _Dictionarium_ or _liber dictionarius_ in the older sense, for it consists of short _dictiones_ or sayings, maxims, and remarks, arranged under subject-headings, such as _De Pietate_, _De Impietate_, _De corporis dotibus_, _De

The evolution of English lexicography James Augustus Henry Murray 1876