MINSHEU, John (1559/60--1627)
Hegemon eis tas glossas. id est, Ductor in linguas, the gvide into tongves. Cum illarum harmonia, & etymologijs, originationibus, rationibus, & deriuationibus in omnibus his vndecim linguis, viz: 1. Anglica. 2. Cambro-Britanica. 3. Belgica. 4. Germanica. 5. Gallica. 6. Italica. 7. Hispanica. 8. Lusitanica seu Portugallica. 9. Latina. 10. Græca. 11. Hebrea, &c. Quæ etiam ita ordine, & sono consentientes, collocatæ sunt, vt facilimè & nullo labore, vnusquisq; non solùm, quatuor, quinque, vel plures illarum, quàm optimè memoria tenere, verum etiam (per earum etymologias) sub nomine, naturam, proprietatem, conditionem, effectum, materiam, formam, vel finem rerum, rectè nosse queat; ... Opera, studio, industria, labore & sumptibus Iohannis Minshæi in lucem editum & impressum. Anno 1617. = The guide into the tongues. With their agreement and consent one with another, as also their etymologies, that is, the reasons and deriuations of all or the most part of wordes, in these eleuen languages, viz. I. English. 2. British or Welsh. 3. Low Dutch. 4. High Dutch. 5. French. 6. Italian. 7. Spanish. 8. Portuguez. 9. Latine. 10. Greeke. 11. Hebrew &c. Which are so laid together (for the helpe of memory) that anyone with ease and facilitie, may not only remember 4. 5. or more of these languages so laid together, but also by their etymologies vnder the name know the nature, propertie, condition, effect, matter, forme, fashion or end of things there-vnder contayned, differing from all other dictionaries ever heretofore set forth. ... By the industrie, studie, labour, and at the charges of John Minsheu published and printed. Anno 1617.
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