Authority Cited: Davies
Author name and dates: John Davies (c. 1570-1644) [BKG Note: corrected March 2023]
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Welsh scholar, poet; propagated faith in native tongue; Welsh Bible; Welsh-Latin Dictionary
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one John Davies cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two John Davies cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional John Davies cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. More than 150 references to "Welsh" in the etymologies, sometimes referencing Junius, Skinner, or Minshew. The online DNB says that SJ had a copy in his library of Davies' Dictionarium Duplex, but this title is not listed in Fleeman or Greene.]
Author name and dates: John Davies (c. 1570-1644) [BKG Note: corrected March 2023]
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Welsh scholar, poet; propagated faith in native tongue; Welsh Bible; Welsh-Latin Dictionary
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one John Davies cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two John Davies cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No additional John Davies cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. More than 150 references to "Welsh" in the etymologies, sometimes referencing Junius, Skinner, or Minshew. The online DNB says that SJ had a copy in his library of Davies' Dictionarium Duplex, but this title is not listed in Fleeman or Greene.]
- Welsh Dictionary; Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ, nunc vulgò dictæ Cambro-Britannicæ, a suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicæ, et linguæ Latinæ, Dictionarium Duplex : Prius, Britannico-Latinum, plurimis venerandæ antiquitatis Britannicæ monumentis respersum. Posterius, Latino-Britannicum. Accesserunt adagia Britannica, & plura & emendatiora quàm antehàc edita, 1632, Londini: Impress. in ædibus R. Young, impensis Joan. Davies SS. Th. D.; flannel; saffron (Dict. definition: "It was yellow, according to Davies in his Welsh dictionary. Crocus, Latin."); sprig.