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Year:
1440
Short description:
"Promptorium Parvulorum" published
Medium description:
The earliest known English-Latin dictionary "Promptorium Parvulorumsive Clericotum" published around this time. Contains 12,000 English entries.
Tags:
history of English
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Starnes, D. W. T. & Noyes, G. E. (1991). The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson. 1604-1755. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press [p.2]