A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues

Search for a particular French word -- View a list of proverbs found in this dictionary

You can download the entire facsimile as one huge .PDF file, 111 megabytes.

Note that there are two more French/English books online from this era: An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly and Dialogues in French and English.

• Dictionary
  • Cover
  • Dedication
  • To the Reader
  • Errata
    
    
  • Sections: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | X | Y | Z
  
  
• Briefe Directions for such as desire to learne the French Tongue:
  • And first, of the Vowels, and Dipththongs.
  • Of Consonants
  • Of a Nowne
  • Declining of Nownes
  • Of Adjectiues
  • Of Pronowne.
  • Of a Verbe.
  • A Table of the Conjugations of perfect Verbes
  • A Verbe Passiue.
  • The Anomala or irregular Verbes of the first Coniugation.
  • The irregulars of the second Coniugation.
  • The irregulars of the third Coniugation.
  • The irregulars of the fourth Coniugation.
  • Of the indeclinable partes, Aduerbs, Coniunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections
  • Adverbes
  • Conjunctions.
  • Prepositions.
  • Interjections.
  • Syntaxis of Nounes.
  • Of Verbes.
  • Of Adverbes.
  • Of Prepositions.
  • Conjugations

This facsimile was assembled from two facsimiles (one and two) in the French National Library. Two is a much cleaner copy, so missing pages from two were filled with pages from one.

In addition to the numerous proverbs in this dictionary, a couple of entries give an indication of the cultural information contained in this dictionary:

Search for: Nique

Nique. faire la nique. To mocke by nodding, or lifting up of the chinne; or more properly, to threaten or defie, by putting the thumbe naile into the mouth, and with a ierke (from th'upper teeth) make it to knacke.

Les maux terminez en ique font au medecin la nique: Prov. Such be Hydropique, Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique, &c, because they are hardly, or never, cured.

Search for: Palemaille

Palemaille: f. A game, wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of yron (standing at either end of an alley one) which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes.

Search for: Per Per: m. as Pair; A Peere, or Paragon; also, a match, make, fellow, companion; also a paire, at game; also, a game at Cards wherein foure rewes be laid; one for a paire; the second for most of a suit; the third for flush and the fourth for a sequence.

Per ou non per. The game called Euen and odde.

Related Work

• Proverbs in Cotgrave's 1611 French-English Dictionary
• A list of pre-1650 books in the French National Library
• Arbeau's Orchesography (1589) (or here), and
• John Florio's 1598 & 1611 Italian-English Dictionaries
• References to Dance in Sixteen Early Modern Dictionaries
• A 1694 French Dictionary (also searchable)

A (transcribed) copy of this 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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