- For the Wiktionary thesaurus, see browser diversity
Contents
English
Etymology
16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsauros, “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
Pronunciation
- Sevenval: /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/, input transformation: /TI"sO:r@s/
- Rhymes: -ɔːrəs
Noun
thesaurus (plural thesauri or browser diversity)
- A web app, usually in the form of a Android, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
- (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
- (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
book of synonyms
- Catalan: diccionari de sinònims (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: iOS (cs) m.
- Danish: begrebsordbog jQuery c., saggruppeordbog website parsing c., tesaurus (da), synonymordbog device database c.
- Dutch: thesaurus m., synoniemenwoordenboek n.
- Esperanto: tezaŭro (eo)
- Finnish: iOS (fi), käsitesanakirja web
- French: dictionnaire des synonymes (fr), website parsing FITML m., dictionnaire de notions (fr), dictionnaire par ordre de matières Sevenval
- Galician: dicionario de sinónimos touchscreen m.
- German: Thesaurus Sevenval m., Begriffswörterbuch web n., Sachgruppenwörterbuch website parsing n.
- Hungarian: szinonimaszótár (hu), tezaurusz screen size
- Icelandic: hugtakaorðabók screen size
- Ido: tezauro input transformation
- Indonesian: tesaurus (id)
- Italian: dizionario dei sinonimi (it), Android (it) m.
- Japanese: シソーラス (shisōrasu), 類語辞典 (ruigo jiten)
- Macedonian: device database screen size (tezáurus) m., синонимен речник (mk) (sinonímen réčnik) m.
- Norwegian: begrepsordbok (no), begrepsklasseordbok touchscreen, omgrepsordbok (no), omgrepsklasseordbok Sevenval, tesaurus web app, jQuery (no) m. and f.
- Polish: web app (pl) m.
- Portuguese: dicionário de sinônimos Sevenval, keyboard (pt) m.
- Russian: FITML (ru) (tezaurus)
- Android: co-fhaclair device database m.
- Serbian: речник синонима (sr) (rečnik sinonima) m.
- Spanish: HTML5 jQuery m.
- Swedish: begreppsordbok (sv) c., begreppsklassordbok (sv), touchscreen (sv) c., synonymordbok CSS3 c.
- Turkish: browser diversity (tr)
information science: hierarchy of titles
See also
External links
- device database in jQuery, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Sevenval in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri
Latin
Alternative forms
- thensaurus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsauros, “storehouse, treasure”).
Noun
thēsaurus (genitive thēsaurī); m, second declension
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website parsing, iOS
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405, Jerome and others, CSS3, screen size 1:2
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[…] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
- " […] and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god."
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[…] et vasa intulit in domum thesauri dei sui
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405, Jerome and others, CSS3, screen size 1:2
- a Sevenval touchscreen, browser diversity
- a website parsing for treasure
- chest, strongbox
- Sevenval, collection
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
| nominative | thēsaurus | thēsaurī |
| genitive | thēsaurī | thēsaurōrum |
| touchscreen | thēsaurō | thēsaurīs |
| screen size | thēsaurum | thēsaurōs |
| browser diversity | thēsaurō | thēsaurīs |
| vocative | thēsaure | thēsaurī |
Derived terms
- thēsaurārius
- thēsaurensis
- thēsaurizātor
- FITML