thesaurus

For the Wiktionary thesaurus, see Wiktionary:Wikisaurus

See also Thesaurus, and thésaurus

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsauros, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852

Pronunciation

• IPA: /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/, SAMPA: /TI"sO:r@s/
• Rhymes: -ɔːrəs

Noun

thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

1. A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.

   "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.

2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
3. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Synonyms

• synonymicon

Derived terms

• thesaural

Translations

book of synonyms

Catalan: diccionari de sinònims (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 分類詞詞典 (cmn), 分类词词典 (cmn) (fēnlèicí cídiǎn) Czech: tezaurus (cs) m. Danish: begrebsordbog (da) c., saggruppeordbog (da) c., tesaurus (da), synonymordbog (da) c. Dutch: thesaurus m., synoniemenwoordenboek n. Esperanto: tezaŭro (eo) Finnish: synonyymisanakirja (fi), käsitesanakirja (fi) French: dictionnaire des synonymes (fr), thésaurus (fr) m., dictionnaire de notions (fr), dictionnaire par ordre de matières (fr) Galician: dicionario de sinónimos (gl) m. German: Thesaurus (de) m., Begriffswörterbuch (de) n., Sachgruppenwörterbuch (de) n. Hungarian: szinonimaszótár (hu), tezaurusz (hu) Icelandic: hugtakaorðabók (is) Ido: tezauro (io)

Indonesian: tesaurus (id) Italian: dizionario dei sinonimi (it), tesoro (it) m. Japanese: シソーラス (shisōrasu), 類語辞典 (ruigo jiten) Macedonian: тезаурус (mk) (tezáurus) m., синонимен речник (mk) (sinonímen réčnik) m. Norwegian: begrepsordbok (no), begrepsklasseordbok (no), omgrepsordbok (no), omgrepsklasseordbok (no), tesaurus (no), synonymordbok (no) m. and f. Polish: tezaurus (pl) m. Portuguese: dicionário de sinônimos (pt), tesauro (pt) m. Russian: тезаурус (ru) (tezaurus) Scottish Gaelic: co-fhaclair (gd) m. Serbian: речник синонима (sr) (rečnik sinonima) m. Spanish: tesauro (es) m. Swedish: begreppsordbok (sv) c., begreppsklassordbok (sv), tesaurus (sv) c., synonymordbok (sv) c. Turkish: sözlük (tr)

information science: hierarchy of titles

Catalan: tesaurus (ca) m.

Czech: tezaurus (cs) m.

See also

• ontology
• Wiktionary's thesaurus (Wikisaurus)
• Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification

External links

• thesaurus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• thesaurus in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri

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Latin

Alternative forms

• thensaurus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsauros, “storehouse, treasure”).

Noun

thēsaurus (genitive thēsaurī); m, second declension

1. treasure, hoard
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2

     […] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui

     " […] and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."

2. a dear friend, loved one
3. a vault for treasure
4. chest, strongbox
5. repository, collection

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	thēsaurus	thēsaurī
genitive	thēsaurī	thēsaurōrum
dative	thēsaurō	thēsaurīs
accusative	thēsaurum	thēsaurōs
ablative	thēsaurō	thēsaurīs
vocative	thēsaure	thēsaurī

Derived terms

• thēsaurārius
• thēsaurensis
• thēsaurizātor
• thēsaurizō