Database of

Latin Dictionaries
Latin dictionary database including:

E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis

E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon (auctore J. Perin)

Ch.T. Lewis, Ch. Short, Latin Dictionary

A. Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-franais des auteurs chrtiens

A. Blaise, Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi

Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et inmae latinitatis

Firmini Verris Dictionarius

Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius

Guillaume Le Talleur, Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus

A. Souter, A glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.

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Database of Latin Dictionaries
Te Database
of Latin Dictionaries

... is a project that has been in development for many years by the Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium
(CTLO) under the direction of Paul Tombeur. Its purpose is to produce for scholars and students an online data-
base comprising a large number of Latin dictionaries. Te database will continue to grow gradually and will com-
prise three kinds of dictionaries: dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, dictionaries
providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words and historical Latin dictionaries.
Te Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium does not content itself simply with the inputting of dictionaries,
but if possible, tries to bring their quality up to the latest scholarly standards.
Tese lexicographical enterprises of CTLO are the basis on which a new Latin dictionary can be created. Other
lexicographical tools (not only dictionaries) will be added in the future.
Te aim
... of the database is not only to integrate dierent types of Latin dictionaries, whether modern, medieval or
early-modern, but also to build in links between these dierent tools. Where the dictionaries provide Latin terms
and vernacular equivalents or explanations (whether in contemporary or historic forms of English, French, Spanish,
Italian or German, say), searches are possible on both the Latin lemmata and the English, French, Spanish, Italian or
German lemmata. Tis database will provide an unsurpassed tool since all Latin word-forms that appear concretely
in texts will have a link to the relevant dictionary entries and from there the user can go and read the articles in the
selected dictionaries.
Te Database of Latin Dictionaries is produced by the same Centre Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium (CTLO) which is
responsible for the Library of Latin Texts. CTLO continues the former activities in the eld of Latin studies of the Cetedoc.
Cetedoc was founded by the Universit
Catholique de Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve and
has been developed jointly with the university.
In the Database of Latin Dictionaries, searches
are possible on both the Latin words and English,
French, German, Italian and Spanish words.

Content
Albert Blaise
Dictionnaire latin-franais
des auteurs chrtiens, 1967

Tis dictionary, which is the only scholarly tool dedicated

to the era of the Latin Church Fathers as a whole, covers
the period from the earliest Christian writings (the time
of Tertullian and the Passio Perpetuae) to the dawn of
the Carolingian Renaissance. It comprises classical words
used by the Fathers when the words are used in new
senses, and new lexical creations. Te electronic version
includes a harmonisation of the references to works cited,
an indication of the century of composition of these
works, and corrections (addenda et delenda). Tis update
is based on comparison with published editions. Each
entry in the dictionary has been linked to a common
lemma (or hyperlemma) which links the various forms
of one word in dierent dictionaries, and therefore
allows cross-checking across the dictionaries envisaged
for DLD. Te hyperlemmata also allow to link the DLD
with the full-text databases.
Firmini Verris Dictionarius
Dictionnaire latin-franais de Firmin Le Ver,
ed. by B. Merrilees and W. Edwards , 1994

Tis major dictionary produced by the Carthusian,

Firmin Le Ver, drew on several sources, including the
thirteenth-century Catholicon by Johannes Balbus of
Genoa. Te Dictionarius of Firmin Le Ver was produced
in 1440 and its organisational quality and bilingual char-
acter makes it one of the greatest lexical undertakings
of the Middle Ages. It is more than just a Latin-French
dictionary, since it uses both languages in a complemen-
tary fashion to dene the Latin lemmata. Moreover, the
French that Le Ver uses is impressive and shows him to
be a lexical innovator himself and someone willing to
create new French terms to give very nuanced meanings
in the language. Te publication of this dictionary as a
database also provides scholars with a Medieval French-
Latin dictionary.
C. du Fresne (du Cange)
Glossarium mediae et inmae latinitatis

Te entire inputting of the medieval Glossarium of Du

Cange taken from the late-nineteenth-century edition,
and including the addenda has been completed by
CTLO and is now searchable. Users are able to search
the entire lexical data gathered by Du Cange and his
successors through an index of Latin words.
Albert Blaise
Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi, 1975

Following his dictionary for the Latin of the Church

Fathers, continuing his work on lexicography, in 1975
Albert Blaise published the Lexicon latinitatis medii
aeui. In his wish to be helpful and counter the absence
of lexical works for scholastic literature, the author has
included attestations from beyond the traditional upper
limit of the Middle Ages and did not even recoil from
inserting some modern terms, for instance those used in
the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).
E. Forcellini, G. Furlanetto, Fr. Corradini, J. Perin
Lexicon Totius Latinitatis, 1940

Te DLD presents a fully-searchable version of the en-

tirety of Forcellinis Lexicon. Te edition used is the latest,
which includes the numerous addenda of Mgr. Perin and
which were published rst in 1940. Besides its immense
historical importance, this Lexicon remains essential for
everything which has not yet appeared in the Tesaurus
Linguae Latinae (the letters N, P [part], and Q to Z).
Te importance of Forcellini lies also in his bibliographi-
cal notes and his numerous multilingual translations (into
French, German, English, Spanish or Italian). Tis means
that the Lexicon can be searched via these translations.
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E. Forcellini, J. Perin
Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon
(auctore J. Perin), 1940

While the Lexicon appeared in four heavy volumes, the

Onomasticon, published under the name of Forcellini, but
redacted by Mgr. Joseph Perrin, who himself equipped it
with addenda, consists of two bulky volumes.
Te integration of the Onomasticon in the DLD is of
marked importance, the more so because the Tesaurus
Linguae Latinae on proper names has only been published
for the letters A to D and there are no current plans of
continuing the publication of an Onomasticon.
CH. T. Lewis, Ch. Short
Latin Dictionary, 1879

Te Lewis and Short dictionary remains the standard

Latin-English dictionary.
Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius
ed. by A. Grondeux,1998

Tis is a Latin-to-French glossary taken from manuscript

H236 of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, which
dates from the 14
th
century. Not only will rare words be
found here, such as acirologia (also present in Firminus
Verris), but this glossary also witnesses forms which are
absent from the other dictionaries in the DLD. Tis is
the case with ambotus, -i, funnel, which is not found
elsewhere, not even in Du Cange. Tis anonymous
dictionary of Montpellier has been edited by Anne
Grondeux in 1998 in the series Lexica Latina Medii Aevi.
Guillaume le Talleur
Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus,
ed. by W. Edwards and B. Merrilees, 2002

Te Vocabularius familiaris et compendiosus is a Latin-

French dictionary from the late Middle Ages. It is one
of the nal links in the chain of medieval lexicographical
transmission which includes the works of Papias, Osbern
of Gloucester, Hugutio of Pisa, Brito, Johannes Balbus
and their successors. It was rst printed in Rouen in
1490 by Guillaume Le Talleur and reprinted in 1500 by
Martin Morin, Le Talleurs successor. Te Vocabularius
shares many terms and denitions, while maintaining its
own distinct character, with the Dictionarius of Firmin
Le Ver and the anonymous Glossarium gallico-latinum,
both from the fteenth century. Te Vocabularius
familiaris et compendiosus is certainly the most important
pre-Renaissance printed Latin-French dictionary.
A. Souter
A glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1957

A Latin-English dictionary of late Latin, covering the

period from the end of the second century to the be-
ginning of the seventh century, and originally conceived
as a supplement to the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which
does not include Christian texts or go beyond the earli-
est centuries. A. Souters work remains an indispensable
complement to that of A. Blaise.
Live links
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of Latin Texts Online
and to other full-text
databases
One of the most challenging and com-
plex element of the whole enterprise is
the building of live links between the
full-text databases and the Latin dic-
tionaries, which enhances the search-
possibilities and results available to
users. Tese links enable the user who
has conducted a search on a word in a
dictionary within DLD to export this
word automatically to its sister-database
and thereby identify actual occurrences
of the particular word in the Library of
Latin Texts in its actual context.
Likewise, a user can select a word found
in a text of LLT (or in one of the other
full-text databases, namely the Monu-
menta Germaniae Historica, Aristoteles
Latinus Database and the Archive of
Celtic-Latin Literature) and automati-
cally nd entries on the word in the
constituent dictionaries of the DLD.
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Occurences of the word aqua,-ae in Latin literature
Entry aqua in the Dictionnaire latin-franais des auteurs chrtiens
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