Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Complete English TranslationLulu.com, 2005 - 402 páginas This encyclopedia by the seventh century bishop of Seville, an important source for the history of intellectual culture in the early middle ages, gathers together the elements of secular learning and adds a great deal of ecclesiastical information. Its wide use in medieval education is attested by the more than a thousand extant manuscripts, second only to the number of manuscripts of the Bible.Isidore sets out the etymology or true meaning of words - to him, the fundamental means to all knowledge. |
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Thunder IX Lightning | ix |
The Rainbow and the Effects | x |
VOLUME ONE Introduction Life and Writings of Isidore | xi |
Waters | xii |
The Different Qualities | xiii |
Waters XIV | xiv |
This Translation | xv |
The Mediterranean | xvi |
The Numbers of Geometry XIV Explanation of the Figures Drawn Here XV Music | cxxix |
Its Inventors XVII What Music Can | cxxx |
The Three Parts of Music XIX The Triple Division of Music XX Harmonics | cxxxi |
Organics | cxxxiii |
Rhythmics | cxxxiv |
The Numbers of Music XXIV The Name Astronomy XXV Its Inventors | cxxxvi |
Its Teachers XXVII The Difference Between Astronomy and Astrology XXVIII The Subject Matter of Astronomy XXIX The World and Its Name | cxxxvii |
The Form of the World XXXI The Sky and Its Name XXXII The Site of the Celestial Sphere XXXIII The Motion of that Sphere | cxxxviii |
Abbreviations in this work | xvii |
Tides and Straits | xviii |
Lakes and Pools | xix |
Abyss | xx |
Loci citati pagan sources | xxi |
Floods | xxii |
Loci citati Biblical sources | xxviii |
Grammar I Learning and Skill II The Seven Liberal Disciplines | xxxiii |
Ordinary Letters | xxxiv |
Latin Letters | xxxvi |
Grammar VI Parts of Speech | xxxix |
Noun | xl |
Pronoun | xliii |
Verb | xliv |
Adverb XI Participle XII Conjunction | xlvi |
Preposition XIV Interjection XV Letters according to Grammarians XVI Syllable | xlvii |
Feet | xlviii |
Accents | li |
Accent Marks | lii |
Punctuation | liii |
Critical Marks in Manuscripts | liv |
Shorthand XXIII Law Abbreviations | lvi |
Military Abbreviations XXV Cipherwriting | lvii |
Sign Language XXVII Orthography | lviii |
Analogy | lxi |
Etymology XXX Glosses | lxii |
Distinctions XXXII Barbarisms | lxiii |
Solecisms | lxiv |
Grammatical Mistakes | lxv |
Metaplasms | lxvii |
Rhetorical Figures | lxviii |
Tropes | lxxi |
The Earth | lxxiv |
Prose XXXIX Meters | lxxix |
Fables | lxxxiii |
History | lxxxiv |
The First Writers of Histories XLIII Usefulness of History XLIV Kinds of History | lxxxv |
Rhetoric and Dialectic I Rhetoric and its Name II The Inventors of Rhetoric III The Name Orator and the Parts of Rhetoric | lxxxvii |
The Three Kinds of Cases | lxxxviii |
The Twofold Status of Cases | lxxxix |
The Threefold Division of Controversy VII The Four Parts of Speech | xc |
The Five Kinds of Cases IX Argumentation | xci |
X | xciii |
The Maxim or Sententious Saying | xciv |
Confirmation and Denial XIII Personification | xcv |
Delineation of Character XV Kinds of Inquiries XVI Elocution | xcvi |
The Three Ways of Speaking XVIII Parts of a Sentence | xcvii |
Faults to be Avoided XX Joining Words | xcviii |
Figures of Speech and Thought | ci |
Dialectic XXIII Distinction between Dialectic and Rhetoric XXIV Definition of Philosophy | cv |
Porphyrys Isagogae | cvii |
Aristotles Categories | cix |
Aristotles De Perihermeniis | cx |
Dialectic Syllogisms | cxi |
Kinds of Definition | cxiii |
Topics | cxvi |
Opposites | cxix |
Arithmetic Geometry Music and Astronomy I The Name of the Science of Arithmetic | cxxi |
The Writers III What Number | cxxii |
What Numbers Signify V The First Division of Even and | cxxiii |
The Second Division of All Number | cxxiv |
The Third Division of All Number VIII The Distinction Between Arithmetic Geometry and Music | cxxvi |
How Many Infinite Numbers Exist X The Inventors of Geometry and its Name | cxxvii |
The Fourfold Division of Geometry XII The Figures of Geometry | cxxviii |
The Course of That Sphere XXXV The Swiftness of the Sky XXXVI The Axis of the Sky XXXVII The Poles of the Sky XXXVIII The Cardinal Poin... | cxxxix |
The Vaults of the Sky XL The Doors of the Sky XLI The Double Face of the Sky XLII The Four Parts of the | cxl |
The Hemispheres XLIV The Five Circles of the Sky XLV The Zodiac | cxli |
The Milky Way XLVII The Size of the Sun XLVIII The Size of the Moon XLVIX The Nature of the Sun L The Course of the | cxlii |
The Effect of the Sun LII The Journey of the Sun LIII The Light of the Moon | cxliii |
The Shapes of the Moon LV The Interlunar Period LVI The Course of the Moon LVII The Nearness of the Moon to the Earth LVIII Eclipse of the S... | cxliv |
The Distinction Between stellae sidera and astra LXI The Light of the Stars LXII The Position of the Stars LXIII The Course of the Stars LXIV The V... | cxlv |
The Circular Number of the Stars LXVII The Wandering Stars LXVIII The Progressive Motion of the Stars LXIX The Retrograde Motion of the Star... | cxlvi |
The Names of the Stars and Why They Got Them | cxlvii |
Medicine I Medicine II Its Name III The Inventors ofMedicine | cliii |
Three Schools of Doctors V The Four Humors of the Body | cliv |
Acute Illnesses | clv |
Chronic Illness | clvii |
Diseases seen on the Bodys Surface | clxi |
Remedies and Medicines | clxiii |
Medical Books | clxv |
Doctors Instruments | clxvi |
Scents and Unguents XIII The Beginning of Medicine | clxvii |
Laws and Time Periods I Writers of Laws | clxix |
Divine and Human Laws III How Ius Leges and Mores Differ | clxx |
Natural Law V Civil Law VI International Law VII Military Law VIII Public | clxxi |
The Law of the Quirites X Lex XI Plebiscites Scita Plebium XII Senatusconsultum XIII What a Decree or Edict XIV Responsa Prudentum | clxxii |
Consular and Tribunician Laws XVI Lex Satura XVII Rhodian Law XVIII Privilegia XIX What Law Can | clxxiii |
Why Law Was Made XXI How a Law Ought To Be XXII Cases XXIII Witnesses XXIV Legal Instruments | clxxiv |
Property | clxxviii |
Offences Prescribed in the | clxxxi |
Penalties Determined in the Laws | clxxxiii |
The Word Chronica | clxxxvii |
Moments and Hours XXX Days | clxxxviii |
Night | cxc |
Weeks XXXIII Months | cxcii |
Solstices and Equinoxes XXXV The Seasons of the Year | cxciv |
Years | cxcv |
Olympiads Lustrums and Jubilees | cxcvi |
Generations and Ages XXXIX Description of Time Periods | cxcvii |
Books and the Offices of the Church I Old and New Testaments | cciii |
The Writers and Names of the Holy Books | ccv |
Libraries IV Translators | ccxi |
Who First Brought Books to Rome | ccxii |
Who Among Us Instituted Libraries VII Prolific Writers | ccxiii |
Varieties of Short Works | ccxiv |
Writing Tablets X Papyrus | ccxvi |
Parchment | ccxvii |
The Production of Books XIII Words for Books | ccxviii |
Scribes and Their Tools | ccxix |
The Canons of the Gospels | ccxx |
The Easter Cycle | ccxxiii |
Other Festivals | ccxxvii |
Offices | ccxxx |
God Angels and Saints I | 10 |
The Son of | 15 |
The Holy Spirit | 20 |
The Trinity | 24 |
Angels | 29 |
People Who Received a Name Prophetically | 36 |
Patriarchs | 77 |
Prophets | 110 |
Apostles | 127 |
The Circle of the Lands | 61 |
Asia | 30 |
Europe | 34 |
Libya Ethiopian Ocean VI Islands VII Promontories VIII Mountains | 41 |
Underground Places | 111 |
Términos y frases comunes
according ancients angels animals appears authority beginning body born brings brought carried certain changed Christ Church Cicero comes common complete contains course death deed definition difference divided divine earth etymology example father feet figure five follows four give given Gospel Greeks call hand happens Hebrew Holy Spirit honest human Italy joined judge kind king language later Latin letter light living Lord means middle mind month moon named nature night noun ofthe opposite orator origin person Plautus poet possession prophet reason rhetoric Roman ruled separate seven short shows signifies similar someone song sound speaking speech stars syllable takes things third thought took translated turned various verb Virg Virgil voice Whence whole word write written wrote