dictionnary

English

Etymology

Non-native use derived from French dictionnaire.

Noun

dictionnary (plural dictionnaries)

1. Obsolete spelling of dictionary.
2. (non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of dictionary.
   • 1999 July 23, jean lastennet, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

     I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture.

   • 2002 May 16, Alexandre Fayolle, “sorted list vs dictionnary”, in comp.lang.python‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

     I'd expect the first one to be faster, since the lookup of a key in a dictionnary is O(1), and insertion is a dictionnary is roughly O(1) too, whereas bisect_left is O(log(N)), and inserting in the middle of a list is O(N).

   • 2003 February 11, BATTISTELLI Laurent, “dictionnary”, in adobe.indesign.windows‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

     So I export my dictionnary from my "old" application and I obtain them in a format *.LEX that is recognized on my computer like an "Indesign Dictionnary File"