A Little Vocabulary of English and Latin, Title page – Preface
VOCABULARIUM PARVUM Anglo-Latinum, In uſum Puerulorum, qui prima Latinae linguae Tyrocinia faciunt:
A little Vocabulary Engliſh and Latine, For the uſe of little Children, that begin to learn the Latine Tongue,
BY CH: HOOLE Mr. of Arts, and Teacher of a private Grammar School in Goldſmiths-Alley London.
Cum intelligitur quid ſignficetur, minùs laborandum eſt de nomine. Cic. Topica.
LONDON, Printed for Joſhua Kirton, and are to be ſold at his Shop at the ſign of the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard, 1657.
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THis little Vocabulary is an extract only of ſuch words as I uſed to Note in the larger, to be as certain Way-marks unto Childrens memories, for the better learning of the reſt; and to ſave my own labour, and the Childrens Books ſomwhat, I have cauſed them to be here printed by themſelves, as having their proper end; which is, to teach little ones how to call thoſe things in Latin, which are every way obvious unto them; and whoſe names they know in Engliſh. And this we may obſerve to be the firſt ſtep towards the gaining of any language: what farther uſe may be made of it, I leave to his diſcretion that will teach it; only let me tell the new beginner, that for his help in pronouncing Latine words, I have marked the ſyllable thus (’) wherein he muſt lift up the ſound above the reſt: and to hint him a little towards his Grammar, I have cauſed the ending of the Genitive Caſe of every word to be ſet down, and the letter denoting its Gender, viz. m. the Maſculine, f. the Faeminine, n. the Neuter. c. 2. the Common of two, and d. g. the Doubtfull Gender.
And now that I have digged deep enough (as I conceive) for the laying of a ſure foundation of the Latine Tongue in a Child that can (though but indif…rently) read Engliſh, I will haſten what I can (at by times) in works that come neerer to perfection. Which that I may chearfully effect, God graciouſly vouchſafe his aſſiſtance as hitherto.
A minimis ad maxima.