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Library of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich The stacks, in which each box contains numerous slips containing Latin writings, sorted into usage categories by word. The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (abbreviated as ThLL or TLL) is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles.
Either Liddell & Scott [3] (LSJ) or the Diccionario Griego-Español [4] (DGE) for Greek authors and texts, combined with either the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae [5] (TLL) or the Oxford Latin Dictionary [6] (OLD) for Latin authors and texts. The two systems overlap substantially: Homer and Plato, for instance, are "Hom."
The CSEL was founded in 1864 by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) in order to produce critical editions of Latin patristic texts – editions that were meant to facilitate the lexicographical work of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (at that time still in the planning stages). [4]
Robert Estienne was born in Paris in 1503. The second son of the famous humanist printer Henri Estienne, [6] he became knowledgeable in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. [6] After his father's death in 1520, the Estienne printing establishment was maintained by his father's former partner Simon de Colines who also married Estienne's mother, the widow Estienne. [7]
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
In 1939, Lambertz moved to Munich, where he worked again until 1942 at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. In 1943, he went to Leipzig, where he taught French and Italian at the Leipzig School for Foreign Languages. [1]
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is far more ambitious than the OLD, but after more than 100 years, only two-thirds of this comprehensive dictionary has been published. [ 6 ] Not to be confused with The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary by James Morwood (Oxford University Press 1994, revised edition 2005).
He was a primary catalyst in the establishment of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a comprehensive dictionary of the Latin language — a project that first got underway in 1894. [3] He was also editor of the Archiv für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik (from 1884), a periodical that grown to 15 volumes at the time of Wölfflin's death in ...