dixionare

Middle English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, dictiōnārius, dixiōnārius.

Noun

dixionare

1. (hapax legomenon) dictionary
   • [c. 1480, Medulla Grammatice (in Latin); quoted in Gabriele Stein, “Translating and Explaining Headwords: Elyot’s Predecessors”, in Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2014, →ISBN, page 192:

     Dixionarius ij anglice Dixionare

     Dixionarius, -ij: in English, dictionary.]

Descendants

• English: dictionary

References

• “dicciọ̄nārīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Gabriele Stein (2014) “Introduction”, in Sir Thomas Elyot as Lexicographer, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8: “The term [‘dictionary’] itself was not yet common, being first used in the form ‘dixionare’ as a translation of Latin dixionarius in a manuscript of the Medulla grammatice, a Latin–English dictionary dating from about 1480.”