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glossarium

glossarium noun: synonym of gloss and glossary, particularly (historical) in medieval contexts.

Noun

glossarium (plural glossaria)

  1. Synonym of gloss and glossary, particularly (historical) in medieval contexts.
    • To the bilingual glossaria belong also the so-called glossae Servii (§ 431, 4 in fin.) and the Latin glossae nominum, which were translated (about the 8th century) from biligual^([sic]) ones (published from Erfurt and other MSS. by GLoewe, Lpz. 1884, see n. 9 ad fin.) and others.1891, [Wilhelm Siegmund] Teuffel, Ludwig Schwabe, translated by George C[harles] W[inter] Warr, Teuffel’s History of Roman Literature, volume I (The Republican Period), London: George Bell & Sons...
    • By studying all known old glossaria of Khoi-Khoin up to 1815, it was possible to identify […]1963, African Abstracts, volume 14/15, International African Institute, page 144
    Synonyms:
    gloss and glossary, particularly

Examples of glossarium in a sentence

  • This diminutive bilingual glossarium seems to anticipate Bar Bahlûl’s Lexicon syriacum!1971, Irfan Shahîd, The Martyrs of Najrân: New Documents, Société des Bollandistes, page 36:
  • The latter of these is mentioned as the equivalent of corrigere in a bilingual glossarium.1992, J. den Boeft, Daniël den Hengst, H. C. Teitler, editors, Cognitio Gestorum, North-Holland, →ISBN, page 11:

Synonyms of glossarium

Forms of glossarium

pluralglossaria

Origin of glossarium

Unadapted borrowing from Latin glōssārium. Doublet of glossary.

Questions about glossarium

What does glossarium mean?
Glossarium means synonym of gloss and glossary, particularly (historical) in medieval contexts.
How do you use glossarium in a sentence?
This diminutive bilingual glossarium seems to anticipate Bar Bahlûl’s Lexicon syriacum!
What part of speech is glossarium?
Glossarium is a noun.
What is the plural of glossarium?
The plural of glossarium is glossaria.

Words near glossarium in the dictionary

  1. glossarian
  2. glossarians
  3. glossaries
  4. glossarist
  5. glossarists
  6. glossarium
  7. glossarize
  8. glossarized
  9. glossarizes
  10. glossarizing
  11. glossary

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