Latin and Greek Dictionaries

  • Database of Latin Dictionaries – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.brepols.net/publishers/pdf/Brepolis_DLD_EN.pdf

  • Du Cange’s Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. Originally composed in 1678 by Charles du Fresne Du Cange. Late 19th-century publication in 10 volumes, a glossary of over 6 million Latin words (90,000 entries) with explanations and citations in Latin. This resource remains the most exhaustive glossary available of medieval Latin usage. 

    • The version of Du Cange from the University of Mannheim provides open access to digitized images of the text, browsable by alphabetical listings. To identify the abbreviations of citations included in definitions, consult Tomus I, under Index auctorum. http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/ducange.html
    • The version of Du Cange from the Sorbonne is also open access and searchable.  For searching words, select the button indicated “consulter en article.” Identifying the abbreviations of citations is not facilitated in this version.   http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/
    • Archive.org has also produced a pdf. version of Du Cange, with open access. Identifying the abbreviations of citations is not facilitated in this version. http://archive.org/details/glossariummedia01adelgoog

    • A paper issue of the complete Du Cange is available in the general collection of Middleton Library at LSU. Identification of abbreviations for citations clearly laid out in front matter of volume I.

  • Latin Learning Resources http://medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/resources/

  • Lewis & Short’s Latin Dictionary.  This Latin to English one-volume dictionary, published in 1879, remains invaluable today for medieval studies, insofar as the editors cite documentation of usage through the sixth century C.E.  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?lang=Latin

  • Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon http://www.tlg.uci.edu/lsj/

  • Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press, New York, 1968-1982. The most authoritative lexicon of Classical Latin, though the year 200 CE, Latin to English. Not available online, except through the Brepols website, which requires subscription. It replaces Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary, for Classical Studies, but not for medieval Latin usage.  Available in paper at LSU. 

  • Perseus Word Study Tool– Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Old Norse http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?lang=la

  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.tlg.uci.edu

  • Thesaurus Linguae Latinae – available in print at LSU’s Middleton Library (Main Collection); subscription required to access electronically – unavailable at LSU http://www.thesaurus.badw.de/english/index.htm

  • William Whitaker’s WORDS – an automated Latin dictionary that provides definitions and morphologies (gender, case, tense, mood, etc.) for approximately 20,000 Latin words http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/wordsonline.html

  • ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ – Latin and Greek: Lewis and Short, Du Cange, Liddell-Scott-Jones, et al. http://logeion.uchicago.edu/