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Abbreviationes . The first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, a database designed for use in both learning and teaching medieval Latin paleography. N.B. Choose the "Web Servers" tab to access program; choose "detail view" in the "Use" pull-down menu.
J.F. Niermeyer. 2002. Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus . . . 2 ed. Lane Rm., Medieval Rm. E-version available from the Lexicon link of the navigation bar of PL and AASS .
Database of latin dictionaries . User's manual. N.B. Choose "Advanced Search" for a menu of all available dictionaries. Current release of Database of latin dictionaries includes:

Anonymi Montepessulanensis. Dictionarius Le glossaire latin-français du ms. Montpellier H236, edited by Anne Grondeux. Turnhout, 1998
Blaise. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens, compiled by Albert Blaise (Turnhout, 1954-1967), revised and corrected under the direction of Paul Tombeur (2005).
Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus. Dictionnaire latin-français de Guillaume Le Talleur, edited by William Edwards and Brian Merrilees. Turnhout, 2002
Blaise. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge, 1975.
Du Cange. Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis conditum a Carolo du Fresne Domino du Cange . . . Paris, 1883-1887.
Forcellini, et al. Lexicon Totius Latinitatis (1771-1940). Classical authors.Henschel Editio noua aucta pluribus uerbis aliorum scriptorum a Léopold Favre T. I-VIII (1883-1887).
Forcellini, et al. Lexicon totius latinitatis Onomasticon. Ios. Perin. Patavii,1940
Firmini Verris Dictionarius, Dictionnaire latin-français de Firmin le Ver 1440 edited by Brian Merrilees and William Edwards (Turnhout, 1994) including the corrections supplied by the editors.
Lewis and Short. A Latin Dictionary, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short Oxford, 1933 [1879].

Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo (UAN) |

Latin language sources, a checklist

Classical Latin

Thesaurus linguae latinae (TLL). Leipzig. 1900-. PA2361.T4. Based on all texts up to the end of the sixth century.
- Supplementum: Nomina propria. 1907-23. PA2361.T4 Suppl. 1, vols 2-3.
- Index librorum scriptorum . . . 1904. PA2361.T4 Suppl. 2.
- Index librorum scriptorum . . . Supplementum. 1958. PA2361.T4 Sup. 3.
Oxford Latin dictionary. 1968-1982. PA2365.E589, Lane Rm; Info Center. Independent alike of Lewis and Short (below) and TLL; treats classical Latin from its beginning to the end of the 2nd century A.D.
Lewis & Short. 1879. A Latin dictionary. PA2365.E5L69.
- Lewis & Short. Via Brepol's Database of latin dictionaries .
- Lewis & Short. Via Archimedes Project.
- Lewis and Short, English/Latin. Via Perseus
- Lewis and Short, Latin/English. Via Perseus
Andrews. 1907. Harper's Latin dictionary. A new Latin dictionary founded on the translation of Freund's Latin-German lexicon. Rev., enl., and rewritten by Charlton Lewis and Charles Short. PA2365.E5A7, Lane Rm.
Estienne. 1552. Dictionarium latinogallicum from ARTFL
Forcellini. Totius latinitatis lexicon. 10 vols. PA2361.F7. The last four volumes make up Onomasticon totius latinitatis. For the history of the great enterprises of Du Cange, Forcellini and the TLL, see H. Leclercq's article "Latin" in the Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne 8, cols. 1422-1464.
- Lewis & Short. Via Brepol's Database of latin dictionaries .
Walde. 1938-54. Lateinisches etymologisches Woeterbuch. 3 vols. PA2342.W2, Lane Rm. Indicates first appearance of each Latin word with references to documents and usage.
Maltby. 1991. Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies. PA2342.M35, Lane Rm.

Late Latin/Patristic

to c. 600, including the Latin Christian authors

Souter.1964. A glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. reprint of 1949 ed. PA2371.S6, Lane Rm.
Blaise. 1962. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens. Tournhout. PA2308.B6, Lane Rm. Revu spécialement pour le vocabulaire théologique par Henri Chirat. E-version in Database of latin dictionaries

Medieval Latin

Database of latin dictionaries . User's manual.

Abbreviationes . The first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations, a database designed for use in both learning and teaching medieval Latin paleography.

The basic glossary of medieval Latin, i.e., the words and meanings that deviate from classical usage, remains:

C. du Fresne, seigneur Du Cange. 1840-1850. Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis. 4 ed. by Henschel. 7 v. Paris. PA2914.D8, Lane Rm. V. 7 includes a medieval Fr. glossary; v. 8 Supplementum: Dieffenbach (1867) Novum gloss. latino-germanicum mediae et inf. aetatis, new edition of Glossarium latino-germanicum mediae et infimae aetatis; e codicibus manuscriptis et libris impressis concinnavit Laurentius Diefenbach.
C. du Fresne, seigneur Du Cange. 1883-1887. Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis. 5th. ed. by Favre, 10 vols. Niort. PA2914.D8 1883.t.I-VIII. A-Z.--t.IX. Glossaire fran¸cais.--t.X. Indices extraits des observations sur l'Histoire de Saint Louis, escrite par Jean sire de Joinville. Constantini, imp. byzantini, numismatis argentei expositio Josephi Scaligeri. Sapphirus Constantii imp. aug. exposita [a Marquardo Frehero] Dissertations, ou Réflexions sur l'Histoire de Saint Louis [éxcrite par Jean sire de Joinville] Dissertatio de imperatorum constantinopolitanorum, seu de inferioris ævi, vel imperii, uti vocant, numismatibus. Index monetarum. Index monogrammatum. Another digital version: T. I-VII. in Database of latin dictionaries .
L. Favre. 1879. Glossaire français faisant suite au Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, avec addition de mots anciens extraits des glossaires de La Curne de Sainte Palaye... 2 vols. PC2889.D8, Info Center.
C. Schmidt. 1906. Petit supplément au Dictionnaire de Du Cange. Strasbourg. Missing, replacement on order.
W.H. Maigne d'Arnis. 1858. Lexicon manuale ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis. Paris. PA2889.M3, Lane Rm. Summarizes Du Cange, Carpentier and Adelung giving only Fr. translations and no source references.

Du Cange is out-dated; explanations, not translations, are given in 17th-century Latin, and often unsatisfactory editions are used. It will be replaced by the new glossary for the period A.D. 800-1200 published by the Union Académique Internationale:

Novum glossarium mediae latinitatis ab anno DCCC usquqe ad annum MCC. Copenhagem. 1957-. PA2893.F7N6, Lane Rm. Index scriptorum... 1973. Includes French translations and extracts from sources. Ed. Francesco Arnaldi et al.
Blaise. 1975. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge. Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi, praesertim ad res ecclesiasticas investgandas pertinens. Turnhout. PA2893.F7B5, Lane Rm. Online in Database of latin dictionaries .
Niermeyer. 2002. Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus . . . French/English Dictionary. 2 ed. 2 v. PA2890.N54 2002, Lane Rm.; Medieval Studies Rm. E-version available from Lexicon link of the navigation bar PL and AASS.
Niermeyer. 1964-76. Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus . . . French/English Dictionary. 2 v. Vol. 2: Abbrev. et index fontium. PA2891.N5, Lane Rm.; Medieval Studies Rm.
Habel. 1959. Mittellateinisches glossar. PA2893.G3H3. 1959 ed. only slightly different from 1st ed., 1931.

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Mittellateinisches wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. jahrhundert. Berlin, Munich, 1959-. PA2893.G4M5, Lane Rm. This dictionary ends with Albertus Magnus (1280). Classical meanings are included and words not in TLL are marked with an asterisk. Abkuerzungs- und Quellenverzeichnisse. 2., verb. und erw. Aufl. 1959.

Italy

Arnaldi. 2001. Latinitatis italicae medii aevi inde ab a. 476 usque ad a. 1022, lexicon imperfectum / Franciscus Arnaldi, Paschalis Smiraglia. Editio alter. PA2889.A7 2001, Stacks.
Smiraglia. "Latinitatis italicae medii aevi. Addenda." In Bulletin du Cange: ALMA 60 (2002) 7-76; ALMA 61 (2003) 5-63..
Sella.1937. Glossario latino-emiliano. Vatican. PA2893.E5S4, Lane Rm
Sella. 1944. Glossario latino-italiano. Vatican. PA2893.I8S4, Lane Rm

Great Britain

Latham. 1965. Revised medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources. PA2891.L3, Lane Rm; Info Center. No references to sources, or extracts.
Latham. 1975-. Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources. PA2891.L28, Lane Rm. Part of the international project sponsored by the Union Académique Internationale.

Denmark

Lexicon mediae latinitatis danicae. 1987-. PA2365.D3L4, Lane Rm.

Hungary

Bartal. 1901. Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis regni Hungariae. Leipzig. PA2893.H8B3.
Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi hungariae. 1987-. PA2893.H9.L67, Lane Rm.

Netherland

Weijers. 1970-. Lexicon latinitatis neerlandicae medii aevi. PA2893.D959, Medieval Studies Rm.

Renaissance, Neo-Latin

Egger. 1992-. Lexicon recentis Latinitatis: a dictionary of contemporary Latin. In urbe vaticana: Libraria Editoria Vaticana. PA2914.L49 Lane Room.
Hoven.1994. Lexique de la prose latine de la renaissance. Leiden: E.J. Brill. PA8081.H68 Green Library Stacks. TOPICS: Latin language, Medieval and modern--Glossaries, vocabularies. Reviewed by Marc van der Poel in Mnemosyne, 48, 1995, p.629-.
Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis (Vatican)

Geography

Latin Place Names (RBMS)
Orbis Latinus; Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen [von] Graesse, Benedict [und] Plechl. Handausgabe. Lateinisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Lateinisch.

Grammars

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar @ Middlebury
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar on Perseus

Music

Bernhard. 2006. Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi = Wörterbuch der lateinischen Musikterminologie des Mittelalters bis zum Ausgang des 15. Jahrhunderts = Dictionary of medieval Latin musical terminology to the end of the 15th century. 2. erw. Aufl.

Last modified: June 1, 2009