Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Complete English TranslationLulu.com, 2005 - Всего страниц: 402 This encyclopedia by the seventh century bishop of Seville, an important source for the history of intellectual culture in the early middle ages, gathers together the elements of secular learning and adds a great deal of ecclesiastical information. Its wide use in medieval education is attested by the more than a thousand extant manuscripts, second only to the number of manuscripts of the Bible.Isidore sets out the etymology or true meaning of words - to him, the fundamental means to all knowledge. |
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Beasts | |
Introduction Life and Writings of Isidore | |
This Translation xv | |
Abbreviations in this work xvii | |
Loci citati pagan sources xxi | |
Loci citati Biblical sources xxviii | |
Grammar I Learning and Skill II The Seven Liberal Disciplines | |
Ordinary Letters | |
The Names of the Stars and Why They Got Them | |
Medicine I Medicine II Its Name III The Inventors of Medicine | |
Three Schools of Doctors V The Four Humors of the Body | |
Acute Illnesses | |
Chronic Illness | |
Diseases seen on the Bodys Surface | |
Remedies and Medicines | |
Medical Books | |
Latin Letters | |
Grammar VI Parts of Speech | |
Noun | |
Minute Animals IV Serpents V Worms VI Fish | |
Pronoun | |
Verb | |
Adverb XI Participle XII Conjunction | |
Preposition XIV Interjection XV Letters according to Grammarians XVI Syllable | |
Feet | |
Accents | |
Accent Marks | |
Punctuation | |
Critical Marks in Manuscripts | |
Shorthand XXIII Law Abbreviations | |
Military Abbreviations XXV Cipherwriting | |
Sign Language XXVII Orthography | |
Analogy | |
Etymology XXX Glosses | |
Distinctions XXXII Barbarisms | |
Solecisms | |
Grammatical Mistakes | |
Metaplasms | |
Rhetorical Figures | |
Birds VII Small Flying Things | |
Meters | |
Fables | |
History | |
The First Writers of Histories XLIII Usefulness of History XLIV Kinds of History | |
Rhetoric and Dialectic I Rhetoric and its Name II The Inventors of Rhetoric III The Name Orator and the Parts of Rhetoric | |
The Three Kinds of Cases | |
The Twofold Status of Cases | |
The Threefold Division of Controversy VII The Four Parts of Speech | |
The Five Kinds of Cases IX Argumentation | |
X | |
The Maxim or Sententious Saying | |
Confirmation and Denial XIII Personification | |
Delineation of Character XV Kinds of Inquiries XVI Elocution | |
The Three Ways of Speaking XVIII Parts of a Sentence | |
Faults to be Avoided XX Joining Words | |
Figures of Speech and Thought | |
Dialectic XXIII Distinction between Dialectic and Rhetoric XXIV Definition of Philosophy | |
Porphyrys Isagogae | |
Aristotles Categories | |
Aristotles De Perihermeniis | |
Dialectic Syllogisms | |
Kinds of Definition | |
Topics | |
Opposites | |
Arithmetic Geometry Music and Astronomy I The Name of the Science of Arithmetic | |
The Writers III What Number | |
What Numbers Signify V The First Division of Even and | |
The Second Division of All Number | |
The Third Division of All Number VIII The Distinction Between Arithmetic Geometry and Music | |
How Many Infinite Numbers Exist X The Inventors of Geometry and its Name | |
The Fourfold Division of Geometry XII The Figures of Geometry | |
The Numbers of Geometry XIV Explanation of the Figures Drawn Here XV Music | |
Its Inventors XVII What Music Can | |
The Three Parts of Music XIX The Triple Division of Music XX Harmonics | |
Organics | |
Rhythmics | |
The Numbers of Music XXIV The Name Astronomy XXV Its Inventors | |
Its Teachers XXVII The Difference Between Astronomy and Astrology XXVIII The Subject Matter of Astronomy XXIX The World and Its Name | |
The Form of the World XXXI The Sky and Its Name XXXII The Site of the Celestial Sphere XXXIII The Motion of that Sphere | |
The Course of That Sphere XXXV The Swiftness of the Sky XXXVI The Axis of the Sky XXXVII The Poles of the Sky XXXVIII The Cardinal Poin... | |
The Vaults of the Sky XL The Doors of the Sky XLI The Double Face of the Sky XLII The Four Parts of the | |
The Hemispheres XLIV The Five Circles of the Sky XLV The Zodiac | |
The Milky Way XLVII The Size of the Sun XLVIII The Size of the Moon XLVIX The Nature of the Sun L The Course of the | |
The Effect of the Sun LII The Journey of the Sun LIII The Light of the Moon | |
The Shapes of the Moon LV The Interlunar Period LVI The Course of the Moon LVII The Nearness of the Moon to the Earth LVIII Eclipse of the S... | |
The Distinction Between stellae sidera and astra LXI The Light of the Stars LXII The Position of the Stars LXIII The Course of the Stars LXIV The V... | |
The Circular Number of the Stars LXVII The Wandering Stars LXVIII The Progressive Motion of the Stars LXIX The Retrograde Motion of the Star... | |
Doctors Instruments | |
Scents and Unguents XIII The Beginning of Medicine | |
Laws and Time Periods I Writers of Laws | |
Divine and Human Laws III How Ius Leges and Mores Differ | |
Natural Law V Civil Law VI International Law VII Military Law VIII Public | |
The Law of the Quirites X Lex XI Plebiscites Scita Plebium XII Senatusconsultum XIII What a Decree or Edict XIV Responsa Prudentum | |
Consular and Tribunician Laws XVI Lex Satura XVII Rhodian Law XVIII Privilegia XIX What Law Can | |
Why Law Was Made XXI How a Law Ought To Be XXII Cases XXIII Witnesses XXIV Legal Instruments | |
Property | |
Offences Prescribed in the | |
Penalties Determined in the Laws | |
The Word Chronica | |
Moments and Hours XXX Days | |
Night | |
Weeks XXXIII Months | |
Solstices and Equinoxes XXXV The Seasons of the Year | |
Years | |
Olympiads Lustrums and Jubilees | |
Generations and Ages XXXIX Description of Time Periods | |
Books and the Offices of the Church I Old and New Testaments | |
The Writers and Names of the Holy Books | |
Libraries IV Translators | |
Who First Brought Books to Rome | |
Who Among Us Instituted Libraries VII Prolific Writers | |
Varieties of Short Works | |
Writing Tablets X Papyrus | |
Parchment | |
The Production of Books XIII Words for Books | |
Scribes and Their Tools | |
The Canons of the Gospels | |
The Easter Cycle | |
Other Festivals | |
Offices | |
God Angels and Saints I | |
The Son of | |
The Holy Spirit | |
The Trinity | |
Angels | |
People Who Received a Name Prophetically | |
Patriarchs | |
Prophets | |
Apostles | |
Atoms X The Rest of the Names in the Gospel | |
Martyrs | |
Clergymen | |
Monks XIV The Rest of the Faithful | |
Church and Sects I Church and Synagogue | |
Religion and Faith | |
Heresy and Schism | |
The Heresies of the Jews | |
The Heresies of the Christians | |
Pagan Philosophers | |
Poets | |
Sibyls | |
Magi | |
Pagans | |
The Gods of the Gentiles | |
Languages Nations Kingdoms The Military Citizenry Relationships I The Languages of Nations | |
Words for Nations | |
Kingdoms and Military Words | |
Citizenry | |
Relationships and their Degrees | |
Relatives on the Fathers and the Mothers Side | |
Marriages | |
Appellatives Nouns and adjectives arranged by initial letter | |
Animals I Herd Animals and Beasts of Burden III Elements IV The Sky V The Parts of the Sky VI The Circles of the Sky VII Air and Cloud VIII Th... | |
The Earth and its Parts | |
The Earth | |
The Circle of the Lands III Asia IV Europe V Libya Ethiopian Ocean VI Islands VII Promontories VIII Mountains IX Underground Places | |
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ancients angels animals antiphrasis apostle Aristotle begat beginning bishop blood body born Christ Church Cicero cithara cogn contains death deed Deus divided divine dubious origin earth Egyptians Ennius etymology Eusebius of Caesarea father feet four genus Gospel Greek word Greeks call happens heaven Hebrew Holy Spirit honor human invented Isidore Israel Japheth Jews judge kind of definition king language Latin Latins call letter Lord means meter middle mind moon Moses nations nature Nestorius night noun obolus opposite orator pagans perh perissologia person philosophers poet praise pro Milone prophet psalm rhetoric Roman ruled sacrament signifies similar Sisebut sixth solecism someone song sound speaking speech spondee stars substance superparticular syllable syllogisms Testament Theodosius II thing is honest third took its name translated Varro verb verse Virg Virgil Virgil Aen voice vowels Whence whole write written wrote