His Etymologies, an encyclopaedia of human and divine subjects, was one of the chief landmarks in glossography (the compilation of glossaries) and was for many centuries one of the most important reference books.
…civilization was the Etymologiae (Etymologies), an encyclopaedic work that attempted to summarize the wisdom of the ancient world.
…divisio rhythmica in the 7th-century Etymologiae of Isidore, archbishop of Sevilla (Seville).