| 词汇 | vocabulary |
| 词源 | vocabulary. Vocabulary comes from the Latin vocabularius, meaning the same, and is first recorded in the early 16th centu- ry. As for the English vocabulary, there are well over a million scientific names for animals, a million for insects, well over 7.4 million for chemical compounds alone; more than 350,000 names are registered as trademarks in the U.S. Patent Office; and one general dictionary lists over 650,000 entries. That alone totals over 10 million English words and with scientific words from many other disciplines, jargons of professions and trades, and slang expressions from England and America, the total must come to at least between 15 and 20 million. But of the millions of English words the average person uses only about 2,800 in everyday conversation, the most extensive individual vocabulary being about 60,000 words. Here are some other word counts: Webster’s Second International Dictionary—650,000 words Oxford English Dictionary—450,000 Shakespeare’s Complete Works—19,000–25,000 New York Times (Sunday edition)—ca. 25,000 Chaucer’s Works—8,000 Milton’s Works—8,000 King James Version of the Bible—6,000 |
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英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。