First Vernacular Dictionaries
A dictionary is to be distinguished from a glossary. Although numerous glossaries publishing vernacular words had long been in existence, such as the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, which listed many Spanish words, the first vernacular dictionaries emerged together with vernacular grammars.
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)