St. Isidore of Sevilla’s most notable work is Etymologies (c. 6th–7th century), an encyclopedia of human and divine subjects that was a landmark in glossography (the compilation of glossaries) and one of the most important reference book for centuries. Isidore’s principal sources were Servius (the 5th-century Latin grammarian and teacher), the Church Fathers, and Aelius Donatus (the 4th-century rhetorician and commentator).
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