glossary
/ˈɡlɒs(ə)ri
/noun (plural glossaries)
An alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary: a glossary of Inuktitut words...
- We are frequently faced with a translation that has many source language words, and a glossary longer than the text itself.
- A glossary giving a brief explanation of many technical terms reinforces this impression.
- It is especially useful that words defined in the glossary are in bold in the text.
Derivatives
glossarial
/ adjective ...- It attracted also those commentary and glossarial aids that constituted an individual and non-canonical contribution.
- The text of Chaucer is based on ‘A glossarial concordance to the Riverside Chaucer’, which is based on the third edition of ‘The Riverside Chaucer’.
- In these undeleted glossarial remains of the language, we have witnesses to facts and conditions of nations long since past, and preceding historic record.
glossarist
/ noun ...- So it had been also with Zenophon and other glossarists of Homer, and with various students of the Chinese classics by the early 3rd century.
- Similar explanations are given by other glossarists, and thus the evidence of etymological scholarship as well as that of folk-lore support the Psychological Theory.
- All of these are ‘magazines of falsehoods,’ if accepted in the exoteric dead-letter interpretations of their ancient, and especially their modern, theological glossarists.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin glossarium, from glossa (see gloss2).