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See also: Thesaurus and thésaurus
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Etymology

16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹəs

Noun

thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

  2. A publication, traditionally in the form of a printed book and now often online, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
    "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  4. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  6. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
    Coordinate terms: catalogue, controlled vocabulary, index

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Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”).

Pronunciation

Noun

thēsaurus m (genitive thēsaurī); second declension

  1. treasure, hoard
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:2:
      […] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
      " and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
  2. a dear friend, loved one
  3. a vault for treasure
  4. chest, strongbox
  5. repository, collection

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative thēsaurus thēsaurī
Genitive thēsaurī thēsaurōrum
Dative thēsaurō thēsaurīs
Accusative thēsaurum thēsaurōs
Ablative thēsaurō thēsaurīs
Vocative thēsaure thēsaurī

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References

  • “thesaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “thesaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • thesaurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • thesaurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “thesaurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “thesaurus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

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Noun

thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)

  1. thesaurus (dictionary of synonyms)
    Synonyms: tesauro, (Portugal) dicionário de sinónimos, (Brazil) dicionário de sinônimos
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