Authority Cited: Menage
Author name and dates: Gilles Ménage (1613–1692)3?
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 19 Menage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two Menage cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additions of Menage etymologies in the 1773 Dict. were identified. Item 173 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., includes ...Menagiana, 4 t. &c. Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, indicates that this is Ménagiana, ou Bons Mots...., 1693. ]
Author name and dates: Gilles Ménage (1613–1692)3?
BKG Bio-tweet: French scholar and Latin translator; weekly literary salon; Latin history of 65 women philosophers; SJ cites in etym.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 19 Menage cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, two Menage cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additions of Menage etymologies in the 1773 Dict. were identified. Item 173 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., includes ...Menagiana, 4 t. &c. Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, indicates that this is Ménagiana, ou Bons Mots...., 1693. ]
- [Dictionnaire étymologique, ou Origines de la langue françoise, par Mr Ménage. Nouvelle édition revue & augmentee par L'Auteur avec les Origines françoises de M. de Caseneuve ; un Discours sur la science des étymologies, par le P. Besnier,... et une liste des noms de saints qui paroissent éloignez de leur origine... par M. l'abbé Chastelain,...], 1694, A Paris, Chez Jean Anisson, Directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale, Rue Saint Jacques, a la Fleur de Lys de Florence; abandon; abbreuvoir; affray; age; algebra; almond; bachelor; baron; blank; brick; cattle; chicane; complot; danger; donjon; fanfaron; frank; harangue; harlequin; march; poltron;
