Roget's Thesaurus

Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language

lexicographer

.

History

It was released to the public on 29 April 1852.

Library Museum houses the original manuscript in its collection.^[3]

Roget's schema of classes and their subdivisions is based on the philosophical work of

Aristotle's Categories

are included in Roget's first class, "abstract relations".

Content

Roget described his thesaurus in the foreword to the first edition:

It is now nearly fifty years since I first projected a system of verbal classification similar to that on which the present work is founded. Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published.[4]

Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes.

synonyms, they can be viewed as colours or connotations of a meaning or as a spectrum of a concept.^{[citation needed}

] One of the most general words is chosen to typify the spectrum as its headword, which labels the whole group.

Editions

The original edition had 15,000

generic thesaurus name.^[8]

References

^ Hüllen^{[full citation needed]}
^
ISBN 978-0-09194-706-4
.

^ ^a ^b Roget's Thesaurus Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine Karcpeles Library
^ Lloyd (1982), p. xix.
^ Table of contents Archived March 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ HarperCollins (November 5, 2019). "Roget's International Thesaurus, 8th Edition". Retrieved October 17, 2020.
^ "Intellectual Property Office". GOV.UK. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
^ Lloyd (1982), p. xiii, quote: "The name has become synonymous with the Thesaurus, yet Dr Roget himself is a shadowy figure."

Bibliography

Baumgartner, Jason L.; Waugh, Timothy A. (2002), Erbacher, Robert F.; Chen, Philip C.; Groehn, Matti; Roberts, Jonathan C.; Wittenbrink, Craig M. (eds.), "Roget2000: A 2D Hyperbolic Tree Visualization of Roget's Thesaurus", Visualization and Data Analysis 2002, 4665, Bloomington, IN: School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University: 339,
S2CID 893530

Emblen, D.L. (1969), "The Library of Peter Mark Roget", The Book Collector, 18 (4 (winter)): 449–469
Hüllen, Werner (2004), A History of Roget's Thesaurus: origins, development, and design, Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press,
ISBN 1-4237-8876-1

Hüllen, Werner (2009), Networks and knowledge in Roget's Thesaurus, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
ISBN 978-0-19-955323-5

Kendall, Joshua C. (2008), The Man Who Made Lists: love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus, New York,
OCLC 156902279{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
)

Roget, Peter Mark (1982), Lloyd, Sue (ed.), Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Harlow, Essex: Longman,
OCLC 8546324

Roget, Peter Mark (1962) [1852], Dutch, Robert A. (ed.), The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Americanized ed.), New York: Longmans, Green & Co./Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

External links

Roget's Thesaurus: The Original Manuscript at Karpeles Manuscript Library
Searchable 1911 version hosted by the University of Chicago
Roget's Thesaurus at Project Gutenberg
Roget's Hyperlinked Thesaurus - (No longer maintained)
ROGETS THESAURUS, encyclopedia.com
Peter Mark Roget, britannica.com
The Remarkable Roget's Thesaurus, merriam-webster.com

[1] Hüllen^{[full citation needed]}

[:0-2] 
ISBN 978-0-09194-706-4
.

[karpeles-3] Roget's Thesaurus Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine Karcpeles Library

[FOOTNOTELloyd1982xix-4] Lloyd (1982), p. xix.

[5] Table of contents Archived March 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[6] HarperCollins (November 5, 2019). "Roget's International Thesaurus, 8th Edition". Retrieved October 17, 2020.

[7] "Intellectual Property Office". GOV.UK. Retrieved May 13, 2020.

[FOOTNOTELloyd1982xiii-8] Lloyd (1982), p. xiii, quote: "The name has become synonymous with the Thesaurus, yet Dr Roget himself is a shadowy figure."

[3]

[8]