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Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum

Latin-English dictionary

Also known as: “Promptorius puerorum”

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contribution to history of dictionaries

In dictionary: From Classical times to 1604
…under its later title of Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum (“Storehouse for Children or Clerics”) commonly attributed to Geoffrey the Grammarian (Galfridus Grammaticus), a Dominican friar of Norfolk, who is thought to have composed it about 1440.
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