dictionary on historical principles
noun1
Human sciences, Lexicography, Linguistics, Sciences A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
- As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of these various features of the lexis over time, from the earliest days of the language to present.2017, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, page 2:
- Synonyms
- historical dictionary