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For the Wiktionary thesaurus, see Wiktionary:Thesaurus

English

Etymology

16th century, from Latin th?saurus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (th?saurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s????s/
• Rhymes: -????s

Noun

thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

1. A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.

2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
3. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings — canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

Synonyms

• synonymicon

Derived terms

• metathesaurus
• thesaural

Translations

See also

• ontology
• Wiktionary's thesaurus
• Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification

Further reading

• thesaurus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• thesaurus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: https://web.archive.org/web/20051125170203/http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/

Latin

Alternative forms

• th?nsaurus, t?saurus, t?s?rus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (th?saurós, “storehouse, treasure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /t?e??sau?.rus/, [t??e??s?äu???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /te?sau?.rus/, [t???s???u?rus]

Noun

th?saurus m (genitive th?saur?); second declension

1. treasure, hoard
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2

     […] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui

     " […] and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."

2. a dear friend, loved one
3. a vault for treasure
4. chest, strongbox
5. repository, collection

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• th?saur?rius
• th?saurensis
• th?sauriz?tor
• th?sauriz?

Descendants

References

• thesaurus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thesaurus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thesaurus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• thesaurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• thesaurus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thesaurus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)

1. thesaurus (dictionary of synonyms)

   Synonyms: tesauro, (Portugal) dicionário de sinónimos, (Brazil) dicionário de sinônimos