Summary
Joakim Stulli: Rjecsosloxje Slovenian-Italian-Latin I-II
Joakim Stulli is the author of the largest dictionary in the history of early Croatian lexicography (4721 pages in total). His dictionary, on which he worked for about half a century, has three parts, and each part consists of two volumes. The dictionary is trilingual, and its parts are: Lexicon latino-italico-illyricum (Budapest, 1801), Rječoslojje Illyrian-Italiano-Latin (Dubrovnik 1806), Vocabolario italiano-illyrico-latino (Dubrovnik
1810). The starting language of the first part is Latin, the second Croatian, and the third Italian. Although the basis of the Croatian language is Štokavian, the dictionary also contains the lexicon of the Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects as well as Old Slavonicisms, Russianisms, Bohemianisms, Polonisms, Slovenian words and the author's personal coins.
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