| onomasticon |
| Definition: A vocabulary or alphabetical list of proper names, especially of human names. |
| Example: The Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon (in three volumes) |
| Etymology: It derives from the Greek onomastikon biblion, book of names. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The word's first OED citation is from 1710: " What we find in all Thesaurus's, Lexicons, Glossaries, Onomasticons, etc." (W. Hume, Sacr. Success., 130) |