Q665934
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'''''' (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the '''''' ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the influential Christian bishop Isidore of Seville () towards the end of his life. Isidore was encouraged to write the book by his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa. summarized and organized a wealth of knowledge from hundreds of classical sources; three of its books are derived largely from Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Isidore acknowledges Pliny, but not his other principal sources, namely Cassiodorus, Servius, and Gaius Julius Solinus.
Key facts
- Book.image
- Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium Ms II 4856 fol. 1r Etymologiae title page.jpg
- Book.caption
- Title page of Etymologiae, Carolingian manuscript (8th century) – Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
- Book.author
- Isidore of Seville
- Book.country
- Visigothic Kingdom
- Book.language
- Late Latin
- Book.orig_lang_code
- la
- Book.genre
- Encyclopedia
- Book.pub_date
- c. 625
- Book.media_type
- Manuscript
- Book.pages
- 20 books
- Book.native_wikisource
- Etymologiarum libri XX
- Book.name
- Etymologiae
via Wikipedia infobox
~22 min read
Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Background
- Overview
- Contents
- Reception
- Middle Ages
- Modern
- Manuscripts and printed editions
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
'''''' (Latin for 'Etymologies'), also known as the '''''' ('Origins'), usually abbreviated Orig., is an etymological encyclopedia compiled by the influential Christian bishop Isidore of Seville () towards the end of his life. Isidore was encouraged to write the book by his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa. summarized and organized a wealth of knowledge from hundreds of classical sources; three of its books are derived largely from Pliny the Elder's Natural History. Isidore acknowledges Pliny, but not his other principal sources, namely Cassiodorus, Servius, and Gaius Julius Solinus.
covers an encyclopedic range of topics. Etymology, the origins of words, is prominent, but the work also covers, among other things, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, geometry, music, astronomy, medicine, law, the church and heretical sects, pagan philosophers, languages, cities, humans, animals, the physical world, geography, public buildings, roads, metals, rocks, agriculture, war, ships, clothes, food, and tools.
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