English
antidictionary
Antidictionary comes from Middle English dixionare ‘dictionary’, and goes back to Medieval Latin dictiōnārium.
- Medieval Latinmoderndictiōnārium
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500dixionare‘dictionary’
- English1500–presentdictionary
- Englishearliest quotation 2010antidictionary
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Medieval Latinmoderndictiōnārium
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500dixionare‘dictionary’
- English1500–presentdictionary
- Englishearliest quotation 2010antidictionary
Earliest quotation: 2010, David Salomon, Giovanni Motta: “An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- ‘to point out, to show’
teach, toe, token, digit, paradigm, syndicate, indicative, syndicalism, tache, 41 more
through Proto-Italic *deikō ‘to show, indicate’
contradiction, indexation, interdiction, 15 more
through Latin dīcō ‘to say, talk, speak, utter, mention’
index, indicate, preach, indicator, predict, indication, dedication, dictator, dedicate, addict, ditto, dictate, predicament, contradictory, contradict, predicate, ditty, dictum, interdict, indicia, dict, 23 more
through Latin dictiō ‘a saying, speaking, speech, talk, oratory’
Today it means
noun The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Medieval Latin dictiōnārium / antidictionary