Meanings
plural glossaria
- Synonym of gloss and glossary, particularly (historical) in medieval contexts.
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 365 more examples
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, […]. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., page 63By 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[…] Theoph. Simok. 95D—the use of κατασπιλάζω (Suid., Patres), the rendering of σπιλάς in bilingual glossaria (subitanum, procella), and, not only interesting but also methodically important, this meaning of the word and its relations in modern Greek dialects.
1971, Mnemosyne, E. J. Brill, page 315Siegfried emphasizes Philo’s Hellenism and also his ties with Plato (p.31 sqq.); he illustrates his point with a glossarium of Platonic vocabulary in Philo (pp.32-37), a glossarium of Greek words found in both Plutarch and Philo (pp.38-45) and an extensive glossarium Philoneum illustrative of further Hellenistic word use (pp.47-131).
1976, Marion M. van Assendelft, Sol Ecce Surgit Igneus: A Commentary on the Morning and Evening Hymns of Prudentius (Cathemerinon 1, 2, 5 and 6), Bouma’s Boekhuis, →ISBN, page 15Series of facts of all sorts, transpositions into modern chronology and annals, as well as technical explanations for the dating of documents, glossaria of saints’ days, old calendars etc. must be at his disposal.
1978, R[aoul] C[harles] Van Caenegem, François Louis Ganshof, Guide to the Sources of Medieval History, North-Holland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 319Synonyms: gloss and glossary, particularly
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of gloss and glossary, particularly (historical) in medieval contexts.
Origin
- Latinglōssārium
- Englishglossarium
Unadapted borrowing from Latin glōssārium. Doublet of glossary.
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