Ambrogio Calepino
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Italy
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lexicographer.
He entered the Augustinian Order in 1458. His Latin
Latin
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dictionary
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, under the title of Cornucopiæ, appeared first in 1502 at Reggio
Reggio Emilia
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. It was reprinted many times during the 16th century, Aldi alone producing no fewer than 18 editions from 1542 to 1592. Later editions were considerably enlarged. To the Latin of the original were added equivalents in other language
Language
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s. Thus we have the Basle
Basel
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edition (1590) which contains eleven languages: "Ambrosii Calepini dictionarium undecim linguarum: respondent autem latin
Latin
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is vocabulis hebraica, græca
Greek language
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, gallica
French language
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, italica
Italian language
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, german
German language
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ica, belgica
Dutch language
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, hispanica
Spanish language
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, polonica
Polish language
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, ungarica
Hungarian language
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, anglica
English language
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The edition in seven languages by Facciolati (Pavia
Pavia
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, 1718) was reprinted many times. Calepinus became a common name, a synonym of dictionary or lexicon, and we find titles like the following: Septem linguarum calepinus, hoc est, lexicon latinum. Calepino also wrote the life of St. John the Hermit which is found in the "Acta Sanctorum" for the 22nd of October (Oct. IX, 748-767).