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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-
    Proto-Indo-European*déyḱti
    Proto-Italic*deikō
    Medieval Latindīcō
    Proto-Indo-European*-tisder.
    Proto-Italic*-tjō
    Medieval Latin-tiō
    Medieval Latindictiō
    Proto-Indo-European*-yósder.
    Proto-Italic*-āsios
    Medieval Latin-ārius
    Medieval Latin-ārium
    Medieval Latindictiōnāriumlbor.
    Middle Englishdixionare
    Englishdictionary

    FromMiddle Englishdixionare,[1] alearned borrowing fromMedieval Latindictiōnārium, fromLatindictiōnārius, fromdictiō(“a speaking”), fromdictus, perfect past participle ofdīcō(“to speak”) +-ārium(“room, place”). Bysurface analysis,diction +‎-ary.

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    Noun

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    dictionary (pluraldictionaries)

    2. Areference work listingwords ornames from one or morelanguages, usually orderedalphabetically, explaining each word'smeanings orsenses, oftentimes also containing information on itsetymology,pronunciation,usage,semantic relations,translations, as well as other relevant information.[ca. 1480]
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:dictionary
      Hypernym:wordbook
      Coordinate term:thesaurus
      If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in thedictionary.
      • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, inTransformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page339:
        But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditionaldictionaries such as Hornby's (1974)Oxford Advanced Learner'sDictionary of Current English include not onlycategorial information in their entries, but also information about the range ofComplements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
    3. (by extension) Areference work on a particularsubject oractivity in which the entries are arranged alphabetically; analphabeticalencyclopedia.[from 1570s]
      alaw dictionary
      a dictionary ofsports
    4. (figurative) Aperson orthing regarded as arepository orcompendium ofinformation.[from 1730s]
    5. (withof or possessive, frequently figurative, especially derogatory) Thecollection ofwords used or understood by a particularperson;vocabulary.[from 1570s]
    6. (preceded bythe) Asynchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
      • 1930,Norman Lindsay, chapter 6, inRedheap, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith,→OCLC, section I, page106:
        Look it up in thedictionary, and what do you find?
      • 2019, John Hughes,Life Pre-Intermediate Student's Book, National Geographic Learning, page188:
        By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the Englishdictionary.
    7. (computing) Anassociative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).[from 1950s]
      Hyponym:hash table
      • 2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson,Professional ASP.NET MVC 3:
        User callsRouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in aRequestContext, adictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.

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    publication that explains the meanings of an ordered list of words
    associative array—seeassociative array
    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
    Translations to be checked

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    Verb

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    dictionary (third-person singular simple presentdictionaries,present participledictionarying,simple past and past participledictionaried)

    1. (transitive) Tolook up in a dictionary.
    2. (transitive) Toadd to a dictionary.
      • 1866, William Henry Ward,The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph, page12:
        By a reference to the followingdictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
      • 2001,The Michigan Alumnus, page25:
        Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn'tdictionaried.
    3. (intransitive, rare) Tocompile a dictionary.
      • 1864 September, “The Alphabeticals”, inBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume96, number587, Edinburgh: William Blackwood,page334, column 2:
        They[dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home—may have been crossed in love, and thence driven todictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies—who can say?

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    References

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    1. ^“dicciọ̄nārīe,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

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