The etymologies of Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville

Original title: Etymologiae

first published 1470 Ediones Universidad de Salamanca, 1983

Acta Salmanticensia — book 139

"This work is the first complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560-636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of...

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Editions we hold

The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville edition · 2010 · Cambridge University Press · 490 pages · 9780521145916
The etymologies of Isidore of Seville edition · 2006 · Cambridge University Press · 475 pages
Etimologías edition · 2004 · Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos · 1465 pages
Étymologie. edition · 2004 · Les Belles Lettres · 180 pages
Etimologie, o, Origini edition · 2004 · Unione tipografico-editrice torinese
Etymologiarum III, de Mathematica edition · 2000 · Universidad de León, Secretariado de Publicationes · 40 pages
Étymologias. edition · 1995 · Belles Lettres · 308 pages
Etimologías edition · 1993 · Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos
Étymologies edition · 1984 · "Les Belles Lettres" · 252 pages
Las Etimologias de San Isidoro romanceadas edition · 1983 · Ediones Universidad de Salamanca
Etimologías edition · 1982 · Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos
Étymologies, livre XVII:De l'agriculture edition · 1981 · "Les Belles Lettres" · 257 pages

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