Florio's 1611 Italian/English Dictionary:
Queen Anna's New World of Words

Search for a particular Italian word -- or go search at the Archimedes project transcription. Note also that there is an Italian-Italian dictionary from 1612 online.

You can download the entire facsimile as one huge .PDF file, 66 megabytes. I also have the smaller 1598 edition online.

• Dictionary
  • Front page; Dedication and Poems
  • Woodcut of Florio
    
    
  • Sections: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | Z | X
  
  
• Necessary Rvles and Short Observations (Grammar)
  • Of Pronounciation
  • Of the Articles of the Italian tongue
    • Of the true vse of these Articles
  • Of Nounes in generall
    • Of Nounes Adiectiues, and of the vse of them
    • Of Nounes proper or appellatiues
    • Of Comparituies and how to frame them
    • Of Superlatiues
    • Of the declining of Nounes
  • Of Pronounes in generall
    • Of the Pronounes deriuatiues, or as some cal them Affixes, Adiuncts, or Particles
    • Of Si
    • Of Ne
  • Of verbes in generall
    • Of the verbe Hauere: The indicatiue moode or Demonstratiue manner of speech
      • The Preterimperfect, Doubtfull, Vnlimited, or Vndetermined tence
      • The first vncertaine, vndetermined, or distant Preterperfect tence
      • Of the Optatiue Mood or wishing maner of Speech
      • The present or definite tence
      • The Preterimperfect or vndetermined tence
      • Infinitiues
      • Participles
      • Geronds
    • Of the second Auxiliare and most necessary verbe E'ssere.
    • Of Impersonall verbes
    • Of the Auxiliare verbes volere. Potere and Douere.
    • Of the Auxiliare verbe Potere.
    • Of the Auxiliare and Irregular verbe Deuere or Douere
    • The true Coniugating of a regular Verbe of the first Coniugation
    • The true Coniugating of the regular Verbe of the second Coniugation
    • The true coniugating of a regular Verbe of the third Coniugation
    • The true coniugating of a regular verbe of the fourth Coniugation
    • Of the chiefest Irregular verbes of the first Coniugation
    • Of the chiefest irregular verbes of the second Coniugation
    • Of the chief irregular Verbes of the third Coniugation
    • Of the irregular verbes of the fourth Coniugation
    • Of Ire and Gire
  • Of the Indeclinable Particles or Immutable parts of speech
    • [ Adverbes ]
    • Coniunctions
    • Prepositions
    • Of certaine Prepositions seldome or neuer used alone
    • Interiections of griefe, &c
    • Prepositions or Particles vsed many times for ornament
    • Of the Particle Che.

Related Work

• A transcription at the Archimedes Project
• A Glossary of Sixteenth Century Italian Words Relating to Costume (partial transcription of Florio's 1598 edition)
• Archaic Italian Verb Conjugations
• Randle Cotgrave's 1611 French-English Dictionary
• Transcription of Caroso's 1580 & 1600 dance manuals
• Transcription of Negri's 1602/1604 dance manuals
• Transcription of Compasso's 1560 galliard manual
• Lupi's Libro di gagliarda, 1600 and 1607, facsimile and transcription (in progress)
• Prospero Lutii's Opera bellissima... di gagliarda (transcription)
• References to Dance in Sixteen Early Modern Dictionaries
• Dance-relevant definitions from John Florio's Queen Anna's New World of Words (1611) Dictionary
• A 1694 French Dictionary (also searchable)

If you'd like a copy of the raw data for this book, or the various search scripts (implemented as Perl CGI scripts), please email me.

A (transcribed) copy of Florio's 1598 dictionary is in the The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database, but the EMEDD has a copyright issue which does not exist here.

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