Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary
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Overview
More commonly known as "Lewis and Short", Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary is an expansive and detailed dictionary consisting of Latin words from the Classical period up through the late medieval period. Based on the work of Freund's German edition, Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary is a comprehensive work, containing over 2,000 pages of detailed lexical data. Further, Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary contain numerous contextual examples, allowing the reader to see how each entry is used in ancient Latin literature. Unlike the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which only covers Latin words up until the second century AD, Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary covers a much broader range of words, making it a necessary tool for students of Ecclesiastical and later Medieval Latin.
With the digital edition of Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary, you can quickly and easily find Latin definitions from any tagged Latin text, making Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary the perfect companion to the Latin works in the Classical Studies Research Library (186 vols. plus Perseus Classics Collection).
- More comprehensive than the Oxford Latin Dictionary
- Over 2,000 pages of lexical data
- A wealth of contextual examples
Top Highlights
“diminish. I. Lit.: aëna Signa manus dextras ostendunt adtenuari Saepe” (Page 194)
“as much as, so as, just as, like as, as if, as it were, so to speak, etc” (Page 1839)
“serves to connect, in the most general manner, single words or entire sentences, and” (Page 660)
“to keep straight or from going wrong, to lead straight; to guide, conduct, direct” (Page 1552)
“II. Prep. with acc., before, against, facing, towards, opposite to, contrary to” (Page 454)
Charlton T. Lewis was educated at Yale College. He taught languages, mathematics, and Greek at a number of different universities. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1863. He is the author of An Elementary Latin Dictionary: With Brief Helps for Latin Readers.
Charles Short was educated at Harvard. He was Professor of Latin in Columbia College, New York.
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Dawid Patryk Jork
2017/5/6
Why Christian organization will charge too much for electronic data? I understand that preparation to the project takes time but you actually do not produce it from the scrap. And as mentioned before me, some of the work is accessible all over the internet.
Michael T. Fox
2017/1/20
M. David Johnson
2015/3/27
Rt Rev. Benedict Churchill, Ph.D.
2014/9/24
Joshua Rupley
2014/8/26
The hyperlinks need a lot of work. From what I have seen so far, about half of the links lead to the wrong resources.AeliusCicero
2014/6/19
Joshua Thompson
2014/6/17
Greg F
2014/4/30
