Database of Latin Dictionaries Scholarly responsibility Centre Traditio

Database of Latin Dictionaries • Scholarly responsibility: Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ • Offers 3 kinds of dictionaries: o Translating dictionaries o Etymological dictionaries o Historical dictionaries • ‘Live Link’ with Library of Latin Texts • Search on entries • Search on Latin word forms • Search on French, English, German, Italian or Spanish word forms

Available dictionaries • A. Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens • A. Blaise, Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi • Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis • E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon (auctore J. Perin) • Ch. T. Lewis, Ch. Short, Latin Dictionary • Guillaume Le Talleur, Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus • Firmini Verris Dictionarius • Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius

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Example 1: quick search (aqua) Example dates from February 2010

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The entries of ‘Blaise Patristic’ constitute a starting point for searching the occurrences of a word in the full-text databases (= ‘live links’)

A link will lead you to all occurrences of the word-form ‘aqua’ in different texts (link available to institutes with a subscription to these corpora)

Occurences of the word "aqua" in Latin literature

Example 2: quick search (wine) Example dates from February 2010

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