Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dictionary on historical principles en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
    • As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of these various features of the lexis over time, from the earliest days of the language to present. 2017, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, page 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dictionaries on historical principles Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

historical dictionary