Los étimos griegos en los diccionarios etimológicos de los siglos XVI y XVII

Abstract

This dissertation, aims to explain, through the study of a lexical set previously selected from the Nuevo Tesoro lexicográfico del español (14th c.-1726), the Greek etymons that appear in the Spanish etymological dictionaries of the 16th and 17th centuries. For this, a total of just 1680 words from common lexicon has been studied. Each etymon is presented in the form of a fact sheet, each following the same format. These corpuses will allowed us to establish some conclusions about the knowledge of etymology and the methods that the authors use to discover the origin of words, as well as knowing about their knowledge of Greek. This study was chosen for several reasons, amongst which, it is worth highlighting the great absence of etymological studies, more precisely studies about known Greek etymons during the 16th and 17th centurias. Furthermore, this thesis addresses the concept of the learned word (cultismo), which has been studied by numerous researchers throughout the 20th century, such as Menéndez Pidal, Dámaso Alonso, Américo Castro, Mª Rosa Lida de Malkiel and Manuel Alvar, amongst others. The main problem in this section is considering whether Greek contributes certain learned words directly to the Spanish language, other than from classical Latin. This thesis also addresses the importance of the language of Homer in Europe and Spain between the 11th and 17th century.