@TheEdVerse Hi Ed! Before the Winter snows hamper your Realmslore foraging efforts, I was wondering if the Realms has any special word/term for “dictionary”, “thesaurus”, et al?
— George Krashos (@gkrashos) November 25, 2021
1)
In the Realms, a “constus” is any reference tome that’s organized for easy look-up of contents (either with alphabetized headings or a heading/subheading breakdown system). 2)
A “canthroyal” is any work largely devoted to translations of words or phrases from one language to another (e.g. a Common-Elvish Dictionary or phrase book).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 25, 2021
3)
And a “theamus” is any guide to important published works on a topic, or in a genre (example, a history of books published about Cormyr, in sequence and compared and contrasted). 4)
Oh, forgot the plural/collective forms: construth, canthroyae, and theamum.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 25, 2021