The Meanings Of Words

Online Sources to Use for
Etymology


Jayne Johnsen-Seeberger
February 2010

Source

In Library

On the Internet

1     Unabridged Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
REF 1625 N53 1933 (1st aisle)

Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (On stand)

ARTFL Project - 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Dictionary.Com

1     Etymological Dictionary

Look in the R 420-422 Section of the Library for the following:
Webster's Dictionary of Word Origins  (1995)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language  (1995)
Dorling Kindersley Ultimate Visual Dictionary (1994)
Webster's Word Histories (1989)
The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology (1988)

Wilton's Word Origins & Phrases

The Phrase Finder

The Word Detective

Bibliomania

Roget’s Thesaurus

Roget’s Thesaurus

Visual Thesaurus

2 - Poetry

Granger’s Index to Poetry, 5^th and 8^th eds   R 808.8 GRA

 

Lit Finder (database)

Verse Anthologies  
Poem Hunter
American Verse Project
EngineRoom Poetry Directories - currently under construction

3 - Quotations

 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and many other quotation books are on the shelf at R 808.88

Barlett’s Familiar Quotations, 1919 ed.

(Pull down menu at this link will also let you search: Columbia Quotations, Simpson's Quotations, and Respectfully Quoted)

4 - Concordance to the Bible

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance  R 220.2 STR

Young’s Concordance R 220.2 YOU

The Bible Gateway

The Crosswalk Reference Desk

5 - Concordance to Shakespeare

The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare R 822.33 SHA

The Complete Works of Shakespeare R 822.3 SHA

The Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare Searched

7 - Song