dictionary on historical principles
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
49
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
8
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
Example Sentences
- "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."