Complete the text with the words from the box. Circle all the new words you find and write them in your notebook. Then, work with a partner and look for them in a dictionary. The early history of dictionaries The modern term "dictionary" comes from the Latin word dictionarium. But there is a synonym for the word dictionary which comes from Greek, known as a lexicon; which means a "book of words". The earliest lexicographers were monks. During the seventh century, these monks in church libraries making notes the margins of their hand-lettered books. In those days, all the were written in Latin. So the better educated monks wanted to make sure that other monks who read the books understood what certain words meant. The term "dictionary," in one of its Latin forms (dictionarius or dictionarium), was then used by an English man, John Garland. did not arrange the words in order but in groups according to subject. In the seventeenth century, some monks started making lists of those Latin glosses and translating them into English. Monks in other countries also compiled Latin-French, Latin-spanish, Latin-spanish glossaries : plis es para hora doy coronita ​