John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560–1627) was an English linguist and lexicographer. He was born and died in London. Little is known about his life. He published...

it may be from Gaelic "biodag", the etymology of which is not known. John Minsheu (1671) suggested that it might be of Dutch origin. One known instance...

was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English (London: Edmund Bollifant, 1599; London: printed by John Haviland for various...

stakes, as agreed upon. John Florio describes primero played by two persons for "one shilling stake and three rest (pool)." In Minsheu's "Spanish Dialogues"...

Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners, 1807, p. 235-243. John Minsheu and William Somner (17th century), Edward Lye of Oxford (1694–1767),...

Spanish words, mestengo (or mesteño) and mostrenco. English lexicographer John Minsheu glossed both words together as 'strayer' in his dictionary of 1599. Both...

(1560) and Giovanni Miranda (1566); the English Richard Percivale (1591), John Minsheu (1599) and Lewis Owen (1605); the French Jean Saulnier (1608) and Jean...

how their religion may be best maintained, promoted, and popularized. John Minsheu's The Dictionarie in Spanish and English (1599) has "Birdes of a feather...

sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys." The same year, John Minsheu included the term in this newly restricted sense in his dictionary Ductor...

Tongues by John Minsheu (1617). Minsheu's Guide was an expensive book to publish: it ran to 726 folios and included text in unusual typefaces. Minsheu financed...

more than half a century after the name Primero was in common use. John Minsheu, an English linguist and lexicographer, claims that Primero and Prima...

William Chester Minor (Sri Lanka/US/UK, 1834–1920) English historical John Minsheu (England, 1560–1627) Spanish and English bilingual, 11-language multilingual...

Gloucester, in the sense of a prince, or governour." The quote from John Minsheu's Dictionarie in Spanish and English (1599), given in Johnson's Dictionary...

by César Oudin (1616), the Ductor in linguas [Guide into Tongues] by John Minsheu (1617), and the Vocabolario italiano e spagnolo [Italian and Spanish...

correspondent (died 1695) April 12 (burial) – John Minsheu, English linguist and lexicographer (born 1560) April 19 – John Beaumont, English dramatist and poet...

(1607) is based on literary texts and was later used by John Minsheu, Lorenzo Franciosini, John Stevens and other lexicographers; Girolamo Vittori expanded...

English, or alternatively it may have been borrowed direct from Latin. John Minsheu's 1617 lexicon, Ductor in linguas, gives a definition for Bíson (Early...

derives from the Spanish and Portuguese casta, which, according to the John Minsheu's Spanish dictionary (1569), means "race, lineage, tribe or breed". When...

institution membership required.) Minsheu, John (1599) Percyvall's (R.) Dictionarie in Spanish and English (as enlarged by J. Minsheu) Edm. Bollifant, London,...