Oxford Latin Dictionary

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The Oxford Latin Dictionary (abbreviated OLD ) is a Latin - English lexicon . The first edition was completed in 1982 and was published by Oxford University Press . The OLD was designed on the model of the Oxford English Dictionary as an independent successor to the Latin Dictionary , contains 40,000 lemmas on 2126 pages and is the most widely used Latin dictionary of its format in the English-speaking world.

history

In the first third of the 20th century, British lexicography developed the ambition to independently create a comprehensive, modern lexicon of the Latin language. The Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short was published in 1879 and was based on the translation of a German dictionary.

In 1933 the editor Alexander Souter began collecting the references for the lexicon based on modern text editions. After his release in 1939, Cyril Bailey and JM Wyllie became editors. After Bailey left in 1949, Wyllie continued to create it independently until he was replaced by Peter GW Glare in 1954 . Glare began publishing the eight fascicles of the lexicon (between 1968 and 1982) and closed the company in 1982. In addition to the editors, numerous well-known philologists were involved in the creation of the lexicon, including John Chadwick (1946–1952).

The full edition from 1982 was reprinted unchanged in 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1992 and 1994 and reissued in 1996 in a corrected version; this edition was reprinted in 1997 and 2000 ( ISBN 0-19-864224-5 ). The now relevant 2nd, revised edition was published in 2012 (= Oxford Latin Dictionary. Ed. By Peter GW Glare. Second Edition [2 vol.]). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. 2398 pp. £ 275.- [ ISBN 0-19 -958031-6 ]).

meaning

The Oxford Latin Dictionary has not completely supplanted the Latin Dictionary . Since it does not take into account late antiquity and Christian authors, the OLD is particularly consulted with classical and pre-classical authors, while the lexicon of Lewis and Short has not yet been replaced for later forms of Latin. Both lexicons are widespread and well-known in the English-speaking world.

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