Rhyming dictionary

A rhyming dictionary (also rhyming dictionary ) is a reference book for rhyming words.

It contains a compilation of rhyming endings, the so-called rhyme syllables. The rhyming syllables are in alphabetical order, is being arranged generally after the last stressed vowel or diphthong. Among the entries, the matching rhyming words are listed, so all the words that rhyme on the extension in question. Here, the compilation is not based on the spelling, but in the debate.

Example: On the suffix "- itte " include the words "Please, Brigitte, center, please and third ' to find.

In the rhyme dictionaries to find nouns and adjectives each with all common compound words, so that opens up a wealth of possibilities rhyme. Also the plurals of nouns and verb tenses as well as all superlative forms of adjectives are taken into account in rhyming dictionaries. Many modern rhyme dictionaries also include coarse and derogatory terms.

Rhyme lexicons are used for example by amateur poets and songwriters.

History

Already in the 16th century, since the Renaissance, were mainly in Italian-speaking rhyming dictionaries available that the problem " Reimnot " should put an end finally. For the first time a rhyming dictionary in 1528 was mentioned. It was written by Moreto under the title Rimario de tutte le cadentie di Dante e Petrarca. In 1540 Alberus wrote a German rhyming dictionary entitled Novum genus dictionarii.

Under the title German Philipp Helikon designed from Zesen 1640 was probably the first German rhyming dictionary. This was followed in 1691 Martin Grünwald rich and Ordinary stock of male and female rhymes. In the same year the well-known poetic manual of Johann Hübner appeared.

Exactly 100 years later ( 1791) wrote Gottfried August Bürger the book Hübnerus redivivus. 1826 Ferdinand Hempel published under the pseudonym Peregrinus syntax, the General German rhyming dictionary; it includes more than 300,000 entries.

Rhyme encyclopedias today

The now famous rhyme dictionaries, which are commercially available, include The Great rhyming dictionary by Günter Pössiger, published by the already three editions ( 1996, 2000 and 2007), and by Angelika Fabig revised and published rhyming dictionary by Willy Steputat.

For some time, there are also electronic rhyme dictionaries, for example, a so-called poem software from Stuttgart in 1999, which contains 50,000 rhyming words or various online rhyming dictionaries.