Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries
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The following tables compare Ancient Greek dictionaries, in any language.
Main lexicographical works[edit]
Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | source citations | volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Notes |
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Thesaurus Graecae Linguae | Henri Estienne | 1572 | 5 | French | |||||||
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch | Johann Gottlob Schneider | 1797 | German | ||||||||
Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache | Franz Passow | 1819 | 4th | 1831 | German | ||||||
A Greek–English Lexicon | Liddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie | 1843 | 9th | 1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement) | 2,042, plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement | 116,502 | English | 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE | |||
Vocabolario greco-italiano | Lorenzo Rocci | 1939 | 3rd | 1943 | 2,074 | 150,000 | 1 | Italian | |||
Dictionnaire grec-français | Anatole Bailly | 1895 | 26th | 1963 | 2,230 | 1 | French | ||||
Diccionario Griego-Español | Spanish National Research Council | 1980 | 2019[1] | 1,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol.VIII) | 8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις)[2] | Spanish | Mycenaean - 6th c. CE | In progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις. | |||
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca | Franco Montanari | 1995 | 3rd | 2013 | 2,400 | 140,000 | 1 | Italian | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | ||
Cambridge Greek Lexicon | James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press | 2021[3] | 1,500 approx | 37,000+[4] | 2 | English | 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch) | ||||
A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect | Richard John Cunliffe | 1924 | 3 | 2012 | 427, plus 64 supplemental | 9809 | >46,900 | 1 | English | Homeric |
Translated editions of dictionaries[edit]
Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | source citations | volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Notes |
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The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek | Franco Montanari, Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder | 2015 | 2,431 | 140,000 | 1 | English | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | Translation from the Italian 3rd edition. |
Etymological and other dictionaries[edit]
Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | source citations | volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Notes |
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Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque | Pierre Chantraine | 1968 | 1980 | 1,436+ 78pp. supplement | 4 (in a single vol. in 2009) | French | |||||
Etymological Dictionary of Greek | Robert Beekes | 2009 | 1,808+ 64pp. introduction | 7,500 | 2 | English |
References[edit]
- Panagiotis Filos (2018) The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (review) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Pauline Hire The Cambridge New Greek Lexicon Project in The Classical World Vol. 98, No. 2 (Winter, 2005), pp. 179-185
- Cambridge Greek Lexicon (2021), official project webpage
- The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Interview with Prof. James Diggle, Oct 28, 2019
External links[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Editorial CSIC : Libro : Diccionario griego-español. Volumen VIII". editorial.csic.es. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
- ^ "Diccionario Griego-Español (DGE) VIII exauros - episkenosis".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Holroyd, A. J. (13 April 2021). "Publication of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon". www.classics.cam.ac.uk.
- ^ Methodology and Future Use, Cambridge Greek Lexicon