Database of Latin Dictionaries Scholarly responsibility: Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium...

Database of Latin Dictionaries

• Scholarly responsibility: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’

• Offers 3 kinds of dictionaries:o Translating dictionarieso Etymological dictionarieso Historical dictionaries

• ‘Live Link’ with Library of Latin Texts

• Search on entries

• Search on Latin word forms

• Search on French, English, German, Italian or Spanish word forms

Available dictionaries

• A. Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens

• A. Blaise, Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi

• Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis

• E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis

• E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon (auctore J. Perin)

• Ch.T. Lewis, Ch. Short, Latin Dictionary

• Guillaume Le Talleur, Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus

• Firmini Verris Dictionarius

• Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius

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Example 1: quick search(aqua)

Example dates from February 2010

Results in the different dictionariesAttention! Each dictionary has its own characteristics.

The entries of ‘Blaise Patristic’ constitute a starting point for searching the occurrences of a word in the full-text databases (= ‘live links’)

A link will lead you to all occurrences of the word-form ‘aqua’ in different texts (link available to institutes with a subscription to these corpora)

Occurences of the word "aqua" in Latin literature

Example 2: quick search(wine)

Example dates from February 2010

Search for an English (or French or German) word-form