thesaurus
English
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Etymology
[edit]16th century, borrowed from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “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. Doublet of treasure.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /θɪˈsoːɹəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːɹəs
- Hyphenation: the‧saur‧us
Noun
[edit]thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)
- A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
- Synonyms: synonymicon, wordhoard
- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
- 2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times[1]:
- As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good.
- (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
- (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
- Coordinate terms: catalogue, controlled vocabulary, index
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]book of synonyms
information science: hierarchy of titles
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See also
[edit]- ontology
- Wiktionary's thesaurus
- Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus
- Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II
Further reading
[edit]- “thesaurus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “thesaurus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- OneLook Thesaurus in OneLook, 2023
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tʰeːˈsau̯.rʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [teˈs̬aːu̯.rus]
Noun
[edit]thēsaurus m (genitive thēsaurī); second declension
- treasure, hoard
- Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:2:
- […] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
- " […] and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
- a dear friend, loved one
- a vault for treasure
- chest, strongbox
- repository, collection
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | thēsaurus | thēsaurī |
| genitive | thēsaurī | thēsaurōrum |
| dative | thēsaurō | thēsaurīs |
| accusative | thēsaurum | thēsaurōs |
| ablative | thēsaurō | thēsaurīs |
| vocative | thēsaure | thēsaurī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: thesar
- Catalan: tresor, → tesaurus
- Emilian: teṡôr
- → English: thesaurus
- → Welsh: thesawrws
- → French: thésaurus
- → German: Thesaurus
- Italian: tesauro, tesoro
- → Sardinian: tesoru
- Old French: tresor
- Old Galician-Portuguese: tesouro
- → Oscan: 𐌕𐌇𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌅𐌓𐌞𐌌 (thesavrúm, “treasure”)
- Piedmontese: tesòr
- → Portuguese: tesauro
- Romanian: tezaur
- Spanish: tesoro, → tesauro
References
[edit]- “thesaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “thesaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "thesaurus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “thesaurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “thesaurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “thesaurus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin thesaurus.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)
- alternative form of tesauro
Further reading
[edit]- “thesaurus”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “thesaurus”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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