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Classical Philology: Latin Dictionaries

Last Updated: Jul 2, 2025 4:08 PM

Overview

On this page, you can find links and information about the best dictionaries of Latin available to UB library users.

Essentials | Online Lexica | Specialized Dictionaries | Later, Medieval, and Modern Latin

Essentials

Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2 vols., by P.G.W. Glare et al (2012)

Lockwood: PA2365 .E5 O9 2012 | 2nd floor Reference
Goetz: PA2365.E5.O9 2012

Lewis & Short cover

A Latin dictionary, 3rd ed., by Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short et al (1980)

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 A7 1980 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA2365.E5 A7 1987
Online: 1984 edition available at the Internet Archive.

Cassell's Latin cover

Cassell's Latin dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin, 5th ed., by D.P. Simpson (1977)

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 C3 | 2nd floor Reference & 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA2365.E5 C3
Online: 1953 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).

Pocket Oxford cover

The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary by S. E. Woodhouse & James Morwood (1994)

Lockwood: PA2365 .E5 W6 1994 | 5th floor stacks

Forcellini et al cover

Lexicon totius latinitatis, 6 vols., by Egidio Forcellini et al (1965)

Lockwood: PA2361 .F7 1965 | 2nd floor Reference

Thesaurus linguae latinae, 4 vols., by Stephanus [Henri Estienne] (1964)

Lockwood: Oversize PA2361 .E8 1964 | 5th floor Oversize

Lewis & Kingery cover

An elementary Latin dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis & Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 L72 1918 | 5th floor stacks

Smith & Hall cover

A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary by William Smith & Theophilus D. Hall (1871)

Goetz: PA2365.E5 S1 1871
Online: 1898 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only); 1894 edition available at the Internet Archive. A searchable version is available at Latinitium.

Later, Medieval, & Modern Latin

Dictionary of liturgical Latin by Wilfrid J. Diamond
Publication Date: 1961

Lockwood: PA2387 .D42 | 2nd floor Reference
Dictionary of medieval Latin from British sources, 7 vols. by R.E. Latham
Publication Date: 1975

Lockwood: Oversize PA2891 .L28 | 5th floor Oversize
Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, 10 vols. by Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange
Publication Date: 1954

Lockwood: PA2889 .D8 1954 | 5th floor stacks
A glossary of later Latin to 600 A.D. by Alexander Souter
Publication Date: 1949
Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi, 7 vols. by J.W. Fuchs
Publication Date: 1970

Lockwood: Oversize PA2893 .D9 F9 | 5th floor Oversize
Lexicon recentis latinitatis by Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Publication Date: 2003

Lockwood: PA2914 .L49 2003 | 2nd floor Reference
Mediae Latinitatis lexicon minus : lexique latin médiéval-français/anglais = a medieval Latin-French/English dictionary, by J.F. Niermeyer
Publication Date: 1976

Lockwood: PA2364 .N54 | 5th floor stacks
Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert, 4 vols. with supp. by Otto Prinz, Johannes Schneider, et al
Publication Date: 1959

Lockwood: PA2371 .M4 1959 | 2nd floor Reference
Novum glossarium mediae latinitatis by Francesco Arnaldi & Franz Blatt
Publication Date: 1959

Lockwood: PA2893 .N6 | 2nd floor Reference
Revised medieval Latin word-list from British and Irish sources by R.E. Latham
Publication Date: 1965

Lockwood: PA2891 .L3 | 2nd floor Reference & 5th floor stacks

Online Lexica

Specialized Dictionaries

Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8. Aufl., 2 vols. by Karl Ernst Georges
Publication Date: 1913

Lockwood: PA2365 .G5 G5 1913 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1913 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1, Pt. 1 | Vol. 1, Pt. 2
| Vol. 2
Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache, 2 vols. by Reinhold Klotz
Publication Date: 1963

Lockwood: PA2365 .K5 1963 | 2nd floor Reference
Online: 1866 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 and at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1 | Vol. 2.
Kleines deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed. by Karl Ernst Georges
Publication Date: 1966

Annex: PA2365 .G5 G4 1966
Lateinisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch by Hans Haas & Richard von Kienle
Publication Date: 1952

Annex: PA2365 .G5 H3 1952
Menge-Güthling lateinisch-deutsches und deutsch-lateinisches Wörterbuch by Hermann Menge & Otto Güthling
Publication Date: 1918

Lockwood: PA2365 .G5 M45 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1913 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2.
Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert, 4 vols. with supp. by Otto Prinz, Johannes Schneider, et al
Publication Date: 1959

Lockwood: PA2371 .M4 1959 | 2nd floor Reference

Diccionario ilustrado latino-español y español-latino, 7th ed. by Vicente Blanco García
Publication Date: 1968

Annex: PA2365.S5 B5 1968
Diccionario latino-español by Antonio de Nebrija
Publication Date: 1979

Facsimile edition of the 1492 printing.
Annex: PA2365S5 N39 1979
Diccionario latino-español by EDELVIVES
Publication Date: 1965

Lockwood: PA2305.S5 E34 1965 | 2nd floor Reference
Diccionario latín-catalán y catalán-latín by Antonio de Nebrija
Publication Date: 1987

Lockwood: Oversize PA2365.C3 N4 1987 | 5th floor Oversize
Vocabulario de romance en Latín by Antonio de Nebrija
Publication Date: 1981

See also: 1973 edition
Lockwood: PA2365 .S5 N4 1981 | 5th floor stacks
Vocabulario español-latino by Antonio de Nebrija
Publication Date: 1951

Annex: PA2365 .S5 N4 1495A

Gradus ad Parnassum, sive Thesaurus latini linguae poeticus et prosodiacus by G.A. Koch
Publication Date: 1965

Annex: PA2361 .K6 1965
Online: 1860 edition in two volumes available at HathiTrust (UB only).
Contributions to Latin lexicography by Henry Nettleship
Publication Date: 1889

Lockwood: PA2363 .N4 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1889 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only) and at the Internet Archive.
Handwörterbuch der lateinischen Sprache, 2 vols. by Reinhold Klotz
Publication Date: 1963

Lockwood: PA2365 .K5 1963 | 2nd floor Reference
Online: 1866 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only): Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 and at the Internet Archive: Vol. 1 | Vol. 2.
A new and copious lexicon of the Latin language by F.P. Leverett et al
Publication Date: 1850

Annex: PA2365 .E5 L6 1851
See also: 1846 edition
Bibliotheca Eliotae (1548) by Sir Thomas Elyot, augm. by Thomas Cooper
Publication Date: 1975

Facsimile edition of the 1548 printing.
Annex: PA2365 .E4 E6 1975
An English-Latin lexicon, Prepared to accompany Leverett's Latin-English lexicon by H.W. Torrey & F.P. Leverett
Publication Date: 1842

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 T6 | 2nd floor Reference
Online: 1845 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).
An abridgement of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin by Robert Ainsworth, Thomas Morell, & John Carey
Lockwood: PA2365.E5 M6 | 2nd floor Reference
Online: 1877 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).
A copious and critical Latin-English lexicon by E.A. Andrews & William Freund
Publication Date: 1855

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 A6 1855 | 5th floor stacks
Online: 1875 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).
Harper's Latin dictionary: a new Latin dictionary founded on the translation of Freund's Latin-German lexicon Rev. ed. by Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short et al
Publication Date: 1880

Lockwood: PA2365.E5 L39 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: R473.2 L
Online: 1907 edition available at HathiTrust (UB only).

Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine, histoire des mots, 4. ed. by A. Ernout & A. Meillet
Publication Date: 1960

Lockwood: PA2342 .E7 1959 | 2nd floor Reference
Goetz: PA2342 .E7 1951 v.1-2
Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic languages by Michiel de Vaan
ISBN: 9789004167971

Publication Date: 2008

Lockwood: PA2518 .V33 2008 | 2nd floor Reference
Goetz: PA2518 .V33 2008
Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 4. Aufl., 3 Bde. by Alois Walde & J.B. Hofmann
Publication Date: 1965

Lockwood: PA2342 .W2 1965 | 5th floor stacks
Goetz: PA2342 .W2 1965 v.1-3