Tuesday 2 February 2016

Dictionaries that are Latino-Latinum

There are a few Latino-Latinum dictionaries around, but few 'pocket' ones.


Formulae latinarum locutionum illustriorum. Stephano Doleto Gallo Aurelio has a selection of definitions and phrases.


There are a few other useful dictionaries and lexica - though most are for 'walled gardens' of vocabulary for specific subject areas or a particular corpus of work. Apart from the ones mentioned already, (apologies if some of these have already been noted) I can think of:-



Gradus ad Parnassum - not strictly a dictionary, but it gives synonyms and antonyms, so often enough detail to work out what a word means, assuming you already have a baseline vocabulary.

Hortulus Puerorum

 Lexicon Ciceronianum

Lexicon Technologiae Latinorum Rhetoricae

Perfectissimus Calepinus Parvus

Calepinus - Latinae atque adeo etiam Graecae Linguae Dictionarium

Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae

 Thesaurus Eroticus Linguae Latinae



Robert Étienne's Thesaurus
- Gesner's Novus Thesaurus 

- Forcellini's Totius Latinitatis Lexicon
- Wagner's Lexicon Latinum


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