Dictionary

A dictionary is a work of authorship. Typically a must for reference. Can be over-valorised by midwits. Important to the standardisation of language. 
* 1520s, from Medieval Latin dictionarium "collection of words and phrases," probably a shortening of dictionarius (liber) "(book) of words," from Latin dictionarius "of words," from dictio "a saying, expression," in Late Latin "a word," noun of action from past-participle stem of dicere "speak, tell, say," from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly."
The Medieval Latin word is said to have been first used by Johannes de Garlandia (John of Garland) as the title of a Latin vocabulary published c. 1220.  
== Rhizomata ==
Encyclopedia; Encyclopedism; The Trivium; Collection; Standardisation