See also: Thesaurus and thésaurus

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16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, 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.

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thesaurus (plural thesauri or thesauruses)

  1. A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
    Synonym: synonymicon
    "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
    • 2008 April 18, Charles Mcgrath, “The Keeper (See: Steward, Caretaker) of Synonyms”, in New York Times[1]:
      As reference books go, the thesaurus has had a somewhat checkered history, in fact, and has probably occasioned as much bad writing as good.
  2. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  3. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
    Coordinate terms: catalogue, controlled vocabulary, index

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, storehouse, treasure).

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thēsaurus m (genitive thēsaurī); second declension

  1. treasure, hoard
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 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

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative thēsaurus thēsaurī
Genitive thēsaurī thēsaurōrum
Dative thēsaurō thēsaurīs
Accusative thēsaurum thēsaurōs
Ablative thēsaurō thēsaurīs
Vocative thēsaure thēsaurī

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  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin thesaurus.

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thesaurus m (plural thesauri or thesaurus)

  1. Alternative form of tesauro