gazetteer

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɡæzəˈtɪə/
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• General-American: /ˌɡæzəˈtɪəɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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The noun is borrowed from French gazettier (archaic), gazetier (“journalist, newspaperman”) + English -eer (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people associated with or engaged in a specified activities). Gazettier, gazetier are derived from gazette (“newspaper”) + -ier (suffix denoting a profession); and gazette from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta of news”) (referring to the cost of the newspaper, a gazeta being a Venetian coin of little value, whence English gazet (obsolete)), possibly a diminutive of Latin gaza (“riches, treasure; treasury”), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰam (“treasure; wealth”). The English word is analysable as gazette + -eer. The verb is derived from the noun.

The noun is derived from The Gazetteer’s, or Newsman’s Interpreter (1st edition, 1692), the name of a geographical index compiled by the English clergyman and historian Laurence Echard (c. 1670 – 1730); in the preface he said “The Title was given me by a very eminent Person, whom I forbear to name.” The preface also stated that the work was “partly design’d for all such as frequent Coffee-Houses, and other places for News”, that is, to help readers better understand the newspapers written by gazetteers or journalists (see etymology 1). The verb is derived from the noun.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قَامُوس جُغْرَافِيّ (qāmūs juḡrāfiyy) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Asturian: índiz de topónimos — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Asturian: nomenclátor — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Bulgarian: географски справочник (geografski spravočnik) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Catalan: nomenclàtor — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Chinese Mandarin: 地名辞典 (dìmíng cídiǎn) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Chinese Mandarin: 志乘 (zhìshèng) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Chinese Mandarin: 志書 /志书 (zhìshū) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Czech: gazetteer — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Estonian: geograafiline leksikon — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Estonian: kohanimeloend — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Finnish: tietoliite — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Finnish: maantieteellinen tietosanakirja — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• French: gazetier — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• French: index géographique — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Galician: nomenclátor — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Georgian: გეოგრაფიული ცნობარი (geograpiuli cnobari) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Georgian: გეოგრაფიული ლექსიკონი (geograpiuli leksiḳoni) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• German: Ortslexikon — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Ancient Greek: περιήγησις (periḗgēsis) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Hebrew: גאזטיר (gaztir) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Hindi: गैजेटियर (gaijeṭiyar) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Hindi: गैजेट (gaijeṭ) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Hindi: गजेटियर (gajeṭiyar) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Hungarian: helységnévtár — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Indonesian: gazetir — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Japanese: 地名辞典 (chimei jiten) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Japanese: 地名集 (chimeishū) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Kannada: ಗೆಜೆಟಿಯರ್ (gejeṭiyar) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Lithuanian: geografinis žinynas — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Malay: gazetir — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Norwegian Bokmål: byleksikon — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Persian: فرهنگ جغرافیایی (farhang-e joġrâfiyâyi) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Persian: جاینامه (jâynâme) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Polish: gazeter — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Portuguese: gazetteer — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Portuguese: índice de topónimos — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Portuguese: nomenclatura — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Russian: географи́ческий лексико́н (geografíčeskij leksikón) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Russian: географи́ческий спра́вочник (geografíčeskij správočnik) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Serbo-Croatian: гео̀графскӣ лѐксико̄н — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Serbo-Croatian: geògrafskī lèksikōn — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Sindhi: گزيٽيئر (gzeṭer) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Spanish: nomenclátor — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Swedish: ortnamnsregister — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Thai: อักขรานุกรมภูมิศาสตร์ (àk-kà-raa-nú-grom-puu-mí-sàat) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Ukrainian: газетир (hazetyr) — dictionary or index of geographical locations
• Finnish: tietosanakirja — descriptive list of any subject
• Polish: gazeter — descriptive list of any subject
• Finnish: kirjoittaa tietosanakirja-artikkeli — to describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer
• Polish: indeksować nazwy geograficzne — to describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer
• Polish: zindeksować nazwy geograficzne — to describe the geography of (a country or other place) in a gazetteer