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José Cascante, José de Cascante or Joseph Cascante (ca. 1618-1630 – December 1702) was a Colombian Baroque composer and organist. [1] Biography. Born in Bogotá, he was appointed in 1646 as the maestro de capilla of that city's cathedral for many years, until his death, and oversaw the installation of its organ. [1] .
Cascante is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain . During the Roman period, Cascante was known as Cascantum.
May 25, 2021 · The Oxford English Dictionary provides definitions of approximately 290,500 English words, arranged alphabetically in twenty volumes, with cross-references, etymologies, and pronunciation keys, and includes a bibliography. 1998 reprint
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The oldest known dictionaries were cuneiform tablets with bilingual Sumerian–Akkadian wordlists, discovered in Ebla (modern Syria) and dated to roughly 2300 BCE, the time of the Akkadian Empire. The early 2nd millennium BCE Urra=hubullu glossary is the canonical Babylonian version of such bilingual Sumerian wordlists. A Chinese dictionary, the c.3r...
In a general dictionary, each word may have multiple meanings. Some dictionaries include each separate meaning in the order of most common usage while others list definitions in historical order, with the oldest usage first. In many languages, words can appear in many different forms, but only the undeclined or unconjugated form appears as the head...
In many languages, such as the English language, the pronunciation of some words is not consistently apparent from their spelling. In these languages, dictionaries usually provide the pronunciation. For example, the definition for the word dictionary might be followed by the International Phonetic Alphabet spelling /ˈdɪkʃənəri/ (in British English)...
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The age of the Internet brought online dictionaries to the desktop and, more recently, to the smart phone. David Skinner in 2013 noted that "Among the top ten lookups on Merriam-Webster Online at this moment are holistic, pragmatic, caveat, esoteric and bourgeois.Teaching users about words they don't already know has been, historically, an aim of l...
Bergenholtz, Henning; Tarp, Sven, eds. (1995). Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The Preparation of Specialised Dictionaries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 90-272-1612-6.Erdmann, Peter; Cho, See-Young. "A Brief History of English Lexicography". Technische Universität Berlin. Archived from the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2010.Landau, Sidney I. (2001) [1984]. Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78040-3.Nielsen, Sandro (1994). The Bilingual LSP Dictionary: Principles and Practice for Legal Language. Tübingeb: Gunter Narr. ISBN 3-8233-4533-8.Guy Jean Forgue, "The Norm in American English", Revue Française d'Etudes Americaines, Nov 1983, Vol. 8 Issue 18, pp. 451–461. An international appreciation of the importance of Webster's dictionar...
Dictionary at CurlieGlossary of dictionary terms by the Oxford University PressTexts on Wikisource:Sep 2, 2009 · Cassell's Latin dictionary : Latin-English and English-Latin : Marchant, James Robert Vernam, 1853-1936; Charles, Joseph Fletcher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online. This is an online edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, or a dictionary of "Old English". The dictionary records the state of the English language as it was used between ca. 700-1100 AD by the Anglo-Saxon inhabitans of the British Isles.
