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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]
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 ...
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]
In different positions Stroux was a part of the international long-term project Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL), the most comprehensive dictionary of the Latin language as well as other similar projects. From 1934 to 1949 Stroux was president of the commission of the German academies for the TLL.
libra. "scales". Used to indicate the pound (unit of mass). [1] LLB. Legum Baccalaureus. "Bachelor of Laws". The "LL" of the abbreviation for the degree is from the genitive plural legum (singular: lex or legis, for law), thus "LLB" stands for Legum Baccalaureus in Latin. Where periods are used, it is "LL.B."
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 ...
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae underway in Munich is intended to be a complete historical dictionary of classical Latin. The International Union of Academies undertook in 1924 to compile a series of national dictionaries of Latin in each of its member academies; for instance, the British Academy produced the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from ...