Etymologies

St Isidore of Seville († 636) · Etymologiarum sive Originum libri XX · c. 615-636

Original text: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum libri XX, recognovit W. M. Lindsay, 2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911 (critical notes not included).

Latin text only; 'en' is empty in every division. Book X is a single alphabetical list in Lindsay (ref '10', sections 1-n). One paragraph per Lindsay section, numbered as in his edition. Lindsay's bracketed deletions are kept in brackets; his source references (e.g. Lucan 3, 220) and apparatus are omitted. Verse quotations: line breaks shown as " / ".

  1. Book I: De Grammatica
  2. Book II: De Rhetorica Et Dialectica
  3. Book III: De Mathematica
  4. Book IV: De Medicina
  5. Book V: De Legibus Et Temporibus
  6. Book VI: De Libris Et Officiis Ecclesiasticis
  7. Book VII: De Deo, Angelis Et Sanctis
  8. Book VIII: De Ecclesia Et Sectis
  9. Book IX: De Linguis, Gentibus, Regnis, Militia, Civibus, Affinitatibus
  10. Book X: De Vocabulis
  11. Book XI: De Homine Et Portentis
  12. Book XII: De Animalibus
  13. Book XIII: De Mundo Et Partibus
  14. Book XIV: De Terra Et Partibus
  15. Book XV: De Aedificiis Et Agris
  16. Book XVI: De Lapidibus Et Metallis
  17. Book XVII: De Rebus Rusticis
  18. Book XVIII: De Bello Et Ludis
  19. Book XIX: De Navibus, Aedificiis Et Vestibus
  20. Book XX: De Domo Et Instrumentis Domesticis

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Digital text: . Original text: Bill Thayer's transcription of Lindsay's text (LacusCurtius), as encoded in TEI by Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich), via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Latin only. Public domain in the US and Canada: Lindsay's edition 1911; W. M. Lindsay died 1937. No public-domain English translation of the whole work exists (Brehaut 1912 translated extracts only).

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