Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

The following tables compare Ancient Greek dictionaries, in any language.

General dictionaries

Title Publisher/author First published Latest edition Year Pages Entries (approx.) Source citations Volumes Translation language Period covered Notes Thesaurus Graecae Linguae Henri Estienne 1572 Latin Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch Johann Gottlob Schneider 1797 German Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache Franz Passow 1819 4th 1831 German Griechisch-Deutsches HandwörterbuchWilhelm Pape1842German A Greek–English Lexicon Liddell, Scott, Jones, Roderick McKenzie 1843 9th 1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement) , plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement English 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE Dictionnaire grec-françaisAnatole Bailly189526th2020107,8091French A Lexicon of the Homeric DialectRichard John Cunliffe192432012427, plus 64 supplemental9809>46,9001EnglishHomeric Vocabolario greco-italiano Lorenzo Rocci 1939 3rd 1943 1 Italian In 2011 a new edition was released with restyled graphics and some corrections and modernizations Старогръцко-български речникъ et al. 1939 4th 1992 1 Bulgarian 8th c. BCE – 4th c. CE Древнегреческо-русский словарь 1958 2 Russian 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE Słownik grecko-polski (ed.) 1958–1965 4 Polish A Patristic Greek LexiconGeoffrey Hugo Lampe19611,5681English2nd c. CE – 9th c. CE Diccionario Griego-Español Spanish National Research Council 1980 20191,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol. VIII) 8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις) Spanish Mycenaean - 6th c. CE In progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις. GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca 1995 4rd 2025 + 1 Italian 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Cambridge Greek Lexicon James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press 2021 approx +Methodology and Future Use , Cambridge Greek Lexicon 2 English 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch)

Translated general dictionaries Title Publisher/author Firstpublished Latestedition Year Pages Entries(approx.) Sourcecitations Volumes Translationlanguage Periodcovered Translationfrom Stjepan Senc 1910 > 1 Croatian & A. Kaegi, Griechisch-deutsches Schulwörterbuch Dizionario illustrato greco-italiano Liddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie, Q. Cataudella, M. Manfredi, F. Di Benedetto 1975 > 1 Italian Middle Liddell GE -The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek , Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder 2015 1 English 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Italian 3rd edition GD - Wörterbuch Griechisch-Deutsch , Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger 2023 1 German 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Italian 3rd edition Σύγχρονο λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσας , Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος 2013 3rd 2018 1 Modern Greek 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Italian 3rd edition

Etymological dictionaries Title Author First published Latest edition Pages Entries (approx.) Volumes Translation language Online Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Griechischen Sprache Walther Prellwitz 1892 1905 (2nd) 1 German scan at Google Books Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque 1907–1916 1938 (3rd) 1 French Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen 1949 1971 (3rd) 1 German Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch Hjalmar Frisk 1960–1972 3 German digitised text (Leiden University) Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Historie des mots Pierre Chantraine 1968 2009 + 78pp. supplement 4 (in a single vol. in 2009) French Etymological Dictionary of Greek Robert Beekes 2009 + 64pp. introduction 2 English

Onomastic dictionaries Title Publisher/author First published Latest edition Year Pages Entries (approx.) Source citations Volumes Translation language Period covered Notes Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen Wilhelm Pape, 1842 3rd 1884 2 German Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit Friedrich Bechtel 1917 1 German Lexicon of Greek Personal NamesPeter Fraser, Elaine Matthews1987–20183,8005 (in 9 issues) + 1 AnnexEnglish

References 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 Franco Montanari, Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος, Σύγχρονο λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσας , publisher's site Franco Montanari, Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger, GD – Wörterbuch Altgriechisch–Deutsch, publisher's site H. Liddell, R. Scott, Q. Cataudella, M. Manfredi, F. Di Benedetto, Dizionario illustrato greco-italiano, Google Books

External links Dictionnaire grec ancien Lexilogos Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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