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In 2010 a volume of essays titled Colloquial and Literary Latin [5] was published in his honour. In 1995 he became chairman of the British Academy's project, the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, a post he held until his retirement in 2010. [6] The dictionary was completed in 2013, and Fascicule XIV (2011) was dedicated to him.
James is one of the most common male names in the English-speaking world. In the United States, James was one of the five most common given names for male babies for most of the 20th century. Its popularity peaked during the Baby Boom (Census records 1940–1960), when it was the most popular name for baby boys.
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Oxford Latin Dictionary Author P. G. W. Glare Language English Publisher Oxford University Press Publication date 1968 to 1982; reprinted with corrections 1996; 2nd edition 2012 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 2,400 ISBN 978-0-19-958031-6 Dewey Decimal 473/.21 19 LC Class PA2365.E5 O9 2012 The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon ...
A Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary at Wikisource A Latin Dictionary (or Harpers' Latin Dictionary , often referred to as Lewis and Short or L&S ) is a popular English-language lexicographical work of the Latin language , published by Harper and Brothers of New York in 1879 and printed simultaneously in ...
In 1913, Robert Whitwell, a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, [1] petitioned the British Academy to use the imminent International Congress of Historical Studies to propose a replacement for the standard dictionary of medieval Latin, Du Cange's Glossarium (1678). [2]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Robert Ainsworth (September 1660 – 4 April 1743) was an English Latin lexicographer, and author of a well-known compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue. Life