Oxford Latin Dictionary

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represents a fixed (unchangeable) portion of a word throughout an article. It has no etymological significance. In other cases a hyphen indicates a detached part of a word. Covers all the major Latin authors — from Catullus, Ovid, and Virgil, to Pliny The Younger, Sallust, and Tacitus. The collection is set to grow into a massive virtual library, ultimately including the entirety of Oxford’s distinguished list of authoritative scholarly editions, from the Oxford Classical Texts to the Romantic poets, and from medieval Latin chronicles to the twentieth century. Oxford University Press is also delighted to announce a series of licensing agreements with several leading academic publishers, allowing us to include more of the best scholarly content on OSEO.

Books 1, 2, 6-11 Lundstrˆm-Josephson Uppsala 1897-1955 Books 3-5, 12 Ash, Forster-Heffner L 1941-55 As the world’s most authoritative dictionary of Classical Latin, the monumental, two-volume Oxford Latin Dictionary offers unsurpassed coverage of the language of Rome from its beginnings until AD 200. More than half a century in the making and originally published as a series of fascicles in 1968, a single-volume reference work in 1982, and now this indispensable resource is available in a revised and freshly redesigned two-volume second edition. Stray, Christopher (2012). "The Oxford Latin Dictionary: A Historical Introduction". In P.G.W. Glare (ed.). Oxford Latin dictionary (PDF) (2ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.xi–xvii. ISBN 9780199580316. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2013 . Retrieved 19 October 2013. Be assured of authoritative and reliable content with scholarly apparatus — ensuring interpretations and ideas are based on accurately edited texts Leeper, Alexander (1899). "Notes on Lewis and Short's Latin-English Lexicon". The American Journal of Philology. 20 (2): 169–85. doi: 10.2307/287803. ISSN 0002-9475. JSTOR 287803.Increasing numbers of Oxford University Press’s Greek and Latin editions and translations are now available as part of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO). Discover authoritative commentaries and critical editions, including the Oxford Classical Texts series, and read texts and translations of all the major works side by side. OSEO's Latin modules Bks. 1-10, 21-30 Conway etc. OCT 1914-35 Bks. 31-8 Mueller T 1929-30 Bks. 39-40 Heraeus T 1931 Bks. 41-5 Giarratano Rome 1933 fragmenta and periochae Weissenborn T 1933 Invest their time and research in a growing research library, with future updates bringing to life hundreds of scholarly editions of works from all periods up to the 20th century

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indicates a subdivision within a section as specified in a parenthesis immediately following, or corresponding to a semicolon in the definition. Also, when spaced, it indicates a change of speaker in passages of dialogue.Normally only long vowels in a metrically indeterminate position are marked (e.g. audītus, auē). Final ‘o’s, though frequently scanned short in Silver Latin, are regularly given their original value. Variants and Cross-References In the description of Editions used OCT, T, and L refer to Oxford Classical Texts (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis), Bibliotheca Tuebneriana, and the Loeb Classical Library respectively. The editions cited are normally those used for the original excerpting of material. Important changes in later editions have been taken into account wherever possible. I. AUTHORS AND WORKS Abbreviation Alternative spellings, declensions, etc. are sometimes indicated by Greek letters, Again, equally important forms are shown by α, β, γ, etc., minor variants by β, γ, etc. Vowels

Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon is the most comprehensive and up-to-date ancient Greek dictionary in the world. Used by every student of ancient Greek in the English-speaking world, the dictionary covers every surviving ancient Greek author and text discovered up to 1940, from the Pre-Classical Greek of Homer and Hesiod to Classical Greek to the Hellenistic Period, including the Greek Old and New Testaments. This monumental work is now available with a brand new Revised Supplement. Representing the culmination of thirteen years' work, the new Supplement is a complete replacement of the 1968 Supplement. Nearly twice the size of the 1968 edition, with over 20,000 entries, it adds to the dictionary words and forms from papyri and inscriptions discovered between 1940 and the 1990s as well as a host of other revisions, updatings, and corrections to the main dictionary. Linear B forms are shown within entries for the first time, and the Revised Supplement gives the dictionary a date-range from 1200 BC to 600 AD. It is fully cross-referenced to the main text, but additions have been designed to be easily used without constant reference to the main text.

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Although Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary was widely used in the English world by the end of the nineteenth century, its faults were widely felt among classicists. [2] While Oxford University Press had attempted the creation of a new Latin dictionary as early as 1875, these projects failed. The OLD was spurred by the submission of a report in 1924 by Alexander Souter on the deficiencies of Lewis and Short; he eventually became the dictionary's first editor. The compilation of the more than one million quotations on which the work was based began in 1933. After Souter's retirement in 1939, Cyril Bailey and J.M. Wyllie were appointed co-editors. From 1949, Wyllie was the sole editor, and he was replaced, following tensions among the editorial staff, in 1954 by P.G.W. Glare, who remained in the position until the completion of the lexicon. [3] The dictionary was originally published in eight fascicles at two-yearly intervals from 1968 until 1982. The complete dictionary contains c. 40,000 entries (covering 100,000 senses). It was generally well received by classicists. [4] FAQs are available for both users and librarians, and an in-depth guide to using OSEO can be found in our help section.