Re: Word categories (Was: Re: Borrowing Wordlist)

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> 'Thesaurus' is the same word as in English, I guess (a
> kind of thematic dictionnary). Larousse is the editor.
> You very likely have equivalents in English.
Indeed, the term was first applied to a hierarchically structured
synonym dictionary (his own) by Peter Mark Roget, an Englishman of French
extraction, and English-language thesauri are almost always called
"Roget's" whether or not they actually descend from Roget's original
work or even keep the hierarchical structure.

(Similarly, American dictionaries are often called "Webster's" and
books containing the rules of card games are invariably called
"Hoyle's".  All three terms are in the public domain.)

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