thesaurus

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• /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /θɪˈsoːɹəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: TH AH0 S AO1 R AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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16th century, borrowed from Latin thēsaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse, treasure”); its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Doublet of treasure.

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَكْنَز (maknaz) — book of synonyms
• Armenian: հոմանիշների բառարան (homanišneri baṙaran) — book of synonyms
• Armenian: թեզաուրուս (tʻezaurus) — book of synonyms
• Armenian: հոմանիշարան (homanišaran) — book of synonyms
• Bulgarian: синони́мен ре́чник (sinonímen réčnik) — book of synonyms
• Catalan: diccionari de sinònims — book of synonyms
• Chinese Mandarin: 同義詞詞典 /同义词词典 (tóngyìcí cídiǎn) — book of synonyms
• Czech: tezaurus — book of synonyms
• Danish: begrebsordbog — book of synonyms
• Danish: saggruppeordbog — book of synonyms
• Danish: tesaurus — book of synonyms
• Danish: synonymordbog — book of synonyms
• Dutch: thesaurus — book of synonyms
• Dutch: synoniemenboek — book of synonyms
• Dzongkha: མངོན་བརྗོད (mngon brjod) — book of synonyms
• Esperanto: sinonimaro — book of synonyms
• Esperanto: tezaŭro — book of synonyms
• Faroese: samheitabók — book of synonyms
• Finnish: synonyymisanakirja — book of synonyms
• Finnish: käsitesanakirja — book of synonyms
• French: dictionnaire des synonymes — book of synonyms
• French: thésaurus — book of synonyms
• French: dictionnaire de notions — book of synonyms
• French: dictionnaire par ordre de matières — book of synonyms
• Galician: dicionario de sinónimos — book of synonyms
• Georgian: თეზაურუსი (tezaurusi) — book of synonyms
• Georgian: სინონიმების ლექსიკონი (sinonimebis leksiḳoni) — book of synonyms
• German: Thesaurus — book of synonyms
• German: Begriffswörterbuch — book of synonyms
• German: Sachgruppenwörterbuch — book of synonyms
• German: Synonymwörterbuch — book of synonyms
• Greek: θησαυρός (thisavrós) — book of synonyms
• Hebrew: אֶגְרוֹן (egrón) — book of synonyms
• Hindi: पर्यायकोश (paryāykoś) — book of synonyms
• Hindi: समांतर कोश (samāntar koś) — book of synonyms
• Hungarian: szinonimaszótár — book of synonyms
• Hungarian: tézaurusz — book of synonyms
• Hungarian: tematikus szókincstár — book of synonyms
• Icelandic: hugtakaorðabók — book of synonyms
• Ido: tezauro — book of synonyms
• Indonesian: tesaurus — book of synonyms
• Irish: stórchiste — book of synonyms
• Italian: dizionario dei sinonimi — book of synonyms
• Italian: tesoro — book of synonyms
• Italian: tesauro — book of synonyms
• Japanese: シソーラス (shisōrasu) — book of synonyms
• Japanese: 類語辞典 (ruigo jiten) — book of synonyms
• Khmer: កំរងវេវចនៈសព្ទ (kɑmrɑɑng veevĕəʼcaʼnaʼ sap) — book of synonyms
• Korean: 유의어 사전 (yuuieo sajeon) — book of synonyms
• Latvian: tēzaurs — book of synonyms
• Lithuanian: tezauras — book of synonyms
• Lithuanian: sinonimų žodynas — book of synonyms
• Macedonian: тезаурус (tezaurus) — book of synonyms
• Macedonian: синони́мен речник (sinonímen rečnik) — book of synonyms
• Malay: tesaurus — book of synonyms
• Māori: puna kupu taurite — book of synonyms
• Māori: punakupu — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: begrepsordbok — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: begrepsklasseordbok — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: omgrepsordbok — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: omgrepsklasseordbok — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: tesaurus — book of synonyms
• Norwegian Bokmål: synonymordbok — book of synonyms
• Occitan: diccionari — book of synonyms
• Polish: tezaurus — book of synonyms
• Polish: słownik wyrazów bliskoznacznych — book of synonyms
• Polish: słownik synonimów — book of synonyms
• Portuguese: dicionário de sinónimos — book of synonyms
• Portuguese: dicionário de sinônimos — book of synonyms
• Portuguese: tesauro — book of synonyms
• Portuguese: thesaurus — book of synonyms
• Romanian: dicționar de sinonime — book of synonyms
• Russian: теза́урус (tɛzáurus) — book of synonyms
• Russian: слова́рь сино́нимов (slovárʹ sinónimov) — book of synonyms
• Scottish Gaelic: co-fhaclair — book of synonyms
• Serbo-Croatian: речник синонима — book of synonyms
• Serbo-Croatian: теза̀урус — book of synonyms
• Serbo-Croatian: rečnik sinonima — book of synonyms
• Serbo-Croatian: tezàurus — book of synonyms
• Sinhalese: සමාන පද නාමාවලිය (samāna pada nāmāwaliya) — book of synonyms
• Slovak: tezaurus — book of synonyms
• Spanish: diccionario de sinónimos — book of synonyms
• Spanish: tesoro — book of synonyms
• Swedish: begreppsordbok — book of synonyms
• Swedish: begreppsklassordbok — book of synonyms
• Swedish: tesaurus — book of synonyms
• Swedish: synonymordbok — book of synonyms
• Tagalog: talasimpanan — book of synonyms
• Thai: อรรถาภิธาน (àt-tǎa-pí-taan) — book of synonyms
• Tibetan: མངོན་བརྗོད་མཛོད (mngon brjod mdzod) — book of synonyms
• Turkish: eşanlamlılar sözlüğü — book of synonyms
• Turkish: tesarus — book of synonyms
• Ukrainian: тезаурус (tezaurus) — book of synonyms
• Welsh: thesawrws — book of synonyms
• Catalan: tesaurus — information science: hierarchy of titles
• Czech: tezaurus — information science: hierarchy of titles
• Finnish: käsitesanakirja — information science: hierarchy of titles
• Finnish: tesaurus — information science: hierarchy of titles
• Russian: предме́тный указа́тель (predmétnyj ukazátelʹ) — information science: hierarchy of titles