Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary (original) (raw)
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Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary:
Queen Anna's New World of Words
(followed by:)
Necessary
Rules And Short
Observations For The
True Pronouncing And
Speedie Learning Of
The Italian Tongue
Search for a particular Italian word -- or gosearch at the Archimedes project transcription. Note also that there is an Italian-Italian dictionary from 1612 online.
You can download the entire facsimile as one huge .PDF file, 66 megabytes. I also have the smaller 1598 edition online.
- Dictionary
- Necessary Rvles and Short Observations (Grammar)
- Of Pronounciation
- Of the Articles of the Italian tongue
* Of the true vse of these Articles - Of Nounes in generall
* Of Nounes Adiectiues, and of the vse of them
* Of Nounes proper or appellatiues
* Of Comparituies and how to frame them
* Of Superlatiues
* Of the declining of Nounes - Of Pronounes in generall
* Of the Pronounes deriuatiues, or as some cal them Affixes, Adiuncts, or Particles
* Of Si
* Of Ne - Of verbes in generall
* Of the verbe Hauere: The indicatiue moode or Demonstratiue manner of speech
* The Preterimperfect, Doubtfull, Vnlimited, or Vndetermined tence
* The first vncertaine, vndetermined, or distant Preterperfect tence
* Of the Optatiue Mood or wishing maner of Speech
* The present or definite tence
* The Preterimperfect or vndetermined tence
* Infinitiues
* Participles
* Geronds
* Of the second Auxiliare and most necessary verbe E'ssere.
* Of Impersonall verbes
* Of the Auxiliare verbes volere. Potere and Douere.
* Of the Auxiliare verbe Potere.
* Of the Auxiliare and Irregular verbe Deuere or Douere
* The true Coniugating of a regular Verbe of the first Coniugation
* The true Coniugating of the regular Verbe of the second Coniugation
* The true coniugating of a regular Verbe of the third Coniugation
* The true coniugating of a regular verbe of the fourth Coniugation
* Of the chiefest Irregular verbes of the first Coniugation
* Of the chiefest irregular verbes of the second Coniugation
* Of the chief irregular Verbes of the third Coniugation
* Of the irregular verbes of the fourth Coniugation
* Of Ire and Gire - Of the Indeclinable Particles or Immutable parts of speech
* [ Adverbes ]
* Coniunctions
* Prepositions
* Of certaine Prepositions seldome or neuer used alone
* Interiections of griefe, &c
* Prepositions or Particles vsed many times for ornament
* Of the Particle Che.
Related Work
- A transcription at the Archimedes Project
- A Glossary of Sixteenth Century Italian Words Relating to Costume (partial transcription of Florio's 1598 edition)
- Archaic Italian Verb Conjugations
- Randle Cotgrave's 1611 French-English Dictionary
- Transcription of Caroso's 1580 & 1600 dance manuals
- Transcription of Negri's 1602/1604 dance manuals
- Transcription of Compasso's 1560 galliard manual
- Lupi's Libro di gagliarda, 1600 and 1607, facsimile and transcription (in progress)
- Prospero Lutii's Opera bellissima... di gagliarda (transcription)
- References to Dance in Sixteen Early Modern Dictionaries
- Dance-relevant definitions from John Florio'sQueen Anna's New World of Words (1611) Dictionary
- A 1694 French Dictionary (also searchable) Credits: Scanning by Steve Bush. These images are in the public domain. The particular copy scanned is the 1968 Scholar Press facsimile.
If you'd like a copy of the raw data for this book, or the various search scripts (implemented as Perl CGI scripts), please email me.
A (transcribed) copy of Florio's 1598 dictionary is in the The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, but the EMEDD has a copyright issue which does not exist here.
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