Octolingual

In 1539 Estienne reversed his Dictionarium, a direct descendant of his own Latin Thesaurus, into the Dictionnaire that was the ancestor of Nicot’s French Thresor. He did this because when popular demand required a reprinting of the octolingual Calepin, Estienne found this work unacceptable and a willing revisor unavailable.

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Makkai is the author of Cantio Nocturna Peregrini Aviumque [Nightsong of the Wanderer and the Birds], an octolingual book of poetry honoring Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 250 anniversary in 1999.

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Also due for mention is Berlaymont’s octolingual dictionary, among them also Dutch, the Colloquia et dictionariolum octo linguarum; Latinae, Gallicae, Belgicae, Teutonicae, Hispanicae, Italicae, Anglicae et Portugallicae.

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Contains an eight-language dictionary, fols. O8ᵛ - T3ʳ. The preface is dated 1585. NUC (NC 0554212) lists an octolingual edition of Venetiis 164-? (copy in Boulder UCL).

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