Database of
Latin Dictionaries
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responsibility: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum
Occidentalium’
• Offers 3 kinds of dictionaries:
o Translating dictionaries
o Etymological dictionaries
o Historical dictionaries
• ‘Live Link’ with Library of Latin Texts
• Search on entries
• Search on Latin word forms
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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 dictionaries
Attention! 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