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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1526|origins=la-med dictionarium|origins=la dictio}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/; /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/, /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/ ''(UK)''^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|la-med|dictiōnārium|t=collection of words and phrases]] (manual) or dictiōnārius (book),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)^(SOED 2002) from Latin dictiō, a saying, expression, in Late Latin a word (see [[diction]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from dīcere, to say, from PIE *deik-, to show, pronounce solemnly.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ A book listing and explaining the words of a language: 1526.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The Medieval Latin word is said to have been first used by John of Garland as the title of a Latin vocabulary about 1220.^(Etymonline) Probably the first use in the title of an English book was Sir Thomas Elyot's ''Latin Dictionary'' (1538).^(Etymonline) A reference book on any subject, as ''a dictionary of music'', is from 1631,^(OED 1989) and figuratively a person regarded as a store of knowledge from 1774.^(OED 1989) ''Dictionarist'', a compiler of a dictionary, is from the 1610s.^(Etymonline) ''To have swallowed the dictionary'', to use long words, is from 1934,^(OED 1989) and a list of words used by a word-processing program from 1957.^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 1220 – Dictionarius, John of Garland.^(Etymonline)
+ * 1526 – a dictionary.^(Barnhart 1988)
+ * 1538 – Elyot's Latin Dictionary.^(Etymonline)
+ * 1631 – a reference book on a subject.^(OED 1989)
+ * 1774 – a person as a store of knowledge.^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Modern meaning==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A reference book or resource listing the words of a language alphabetically, with their meanings and often pronunciation and etymology.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
+ # A book giving the words of one language with equivalents in another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)
+ # A reference book on the terms of a particular subject.^(AHD)
+ # A list of words stored for use by a computer program, as a spelling checker.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[diction]]
+ * [[dictum]]
+ * [[lexicon]]
+ * [[glossary]]
+ * [[thesaurus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}