Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana
Encyclopedia
Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana is a Spanish
-to-Nahuatl dictionary
by Alonso de Molina
published in 1555. It was the first dictionary to be published in the New World
, and was a forerunner to Molina's significant Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana
of 1571.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
-to-Nahuatl dictionary
Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
by Alonso de Molina
Alonso de Molina
Alonso de Molina was a Franciscan priest and grammarian, who wrote a well-known dictionary of the Nahuatl language published in 1571....
published in 1555. It was the first dictionary to be published in the New World
New World
The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically America and sometimes Oceania . The term originated in the late 15th century, when America had been recently discovered by European explorers, expanding the geographical horizon of the people of the European middle...
, and was a forerunner to Molina's significant Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana
Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana
Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana is a bilingual dictionary of Spanish and Nahuatl by Alonso de Molina, first published in 1571. It has approximately 23,600 entries, and grew out of his earlier dictionary, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, which had only...
of 1571.