Meaning of dictionary on historical principles | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.

Examples

“As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of these various features of the lexis over time, from the earliest days of the language to present.”

CEFR level