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The etymologies of Isidore of Seville / [translated by] Stephen A. Barney [and others] ; with the collaboration of Muriel Hall.

Author/creator Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
Other author/creatorBarney, Stephen A.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxii, 475 pages ; 26 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Uniform titleEtymologiae. English
Contents Grammar and its parts -- Rhetoric and dialectic -- Mathematics, whose parts are arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy -- Medicine -- Laws and the instruments of the judiciary, and chronology -- The order of scripture, cycles and canons, liturgical feasts and offices -- Gods and angels, prophetic nomenclature, names of the holy fathers, martyrs, clerics, monks, and other names -- Church and synagogue, religion and faith, heresies, philosophers, poets, sibyls, magicians, pagans, gods of the gentiles -- Languages of the nations, royal, military, and civic terminology, family relationships -- Certain terms in alphabetical order -- Human beings and their parts, the ages of humans, portents and metamorphoses -- Four-footed animals, creeping animals, fish, and flying animals -- Elements, that is, the heavens and the air, waters, the sea, rivers and floods -- Earth, paradise, the regions of the whole globe, islands, mountains, other terms for places, and the lower regions of the earth -- Cities, urban and rural buildings, fields, boundaries and measures of fields, roads -- Earthly materials from land and water, every kind of gem and precious stones, ivory likewise, treated along with marble, glass, all the metals, weights and measures -- Agriculture, crops of every kind, vines and trees of every kind, herbs and all vegetables -- Wars and triumphs and the instruments of war, the forum, spectacles, games of chance and ball games -- Ships, ropes, and nets, iron workers, the construction of walls and all the implements of building, also wool-working, ornaments, and all kinds of clothing -- Tables, foodstuffs, drink, and their vessels, vessels for wine, water, and oil, vessels of cooks, bakers, and lamps, beds, chairs, vehicles, rural and garden implements, equestrian equipment.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [29]-31) and indexes.
LanguageTranslated from the Latin.
LCCN 2004061770
ISBN0521837499
ISBN9780521837491

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