thesaurus

thesaurus

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English

Etymology

16th century, 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

  • IPA(key): /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəs

Noun

thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

  1. A publication, traditionally in the form of a printed book and now often online, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
  2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  3. (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

Synonyms

  • synonymicon

Derived terms

  • metathesaurus
  • thesaural

Translations

See also

  • ontology
  • Wiktionary's thesaurus
  • Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification
  • Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus
  • Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II

Further reading

  • “thesaurus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “thesaurus”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • OneLook Thesaurus in OneLook, 2023

Latin

Alternative forms

  • thensaurus (ante-classical)
  • tēsaurus, tēsōrus (Low Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, storehouse, treasure).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /tʰeːˈsau̯.rus/, [t̪ʰeːˈs̠äu̯rʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /teˈsau̯.rus/, [t̪eˈs̬äːu̯rus]

Noun

thēsaurus m (genitive thēsaurī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • thēsaurārius
  • thēsaurensis
  • thēsaurizātor
  • thēsaurizō

Descendants

References

  • 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’s 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

Pronunciation

Noun

thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)

  1. thesaurus (dictionary of synonyms)
    Synonyms: tesauro, (Portugal) dicionário de sinónimos, (Brazil) dicionário de sinônimos

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