Thesaurus

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Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 English 2.1 Noun 2.2 Translations 2.3 References 3 Latin 3.1 Noun

Etymology

16th century, from New Latin thesaurus, treasure, from Greek θησαυρός, storehouse or treasure. Its current usage became the established use with the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852.

English

Noun

1. A publication, usually in the form of a book, which references the words of a given language, or languages, and gives possible alternatives to their use.
2. (Archaic): a dictionary or encyclopedia

Translations

• Dutch: thesaurus
• German: Thesaurus m
• Esperanto: tezaŭro
• Japanese: シソーラス (shisōrasu), 類語辞典 (ruigo jiten)
• Romanica: thesauro m
• Spanish: tesauro
• Swedish: synonymordbok

References

See Wikipedia article about thesaurus.

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Latin

Noun

thesaurus, thesauri m

Second declension

1. (New Latin) treasure