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Oxford Latin Dictionary

Classical Latin dictionary by Oxford

Summary

Classical Latin dictionary by Oxford

Field	Value
name	Oxford Latin Dictionary
image	Oxford Latin Dictionary.jpg	caption =
author	P. G. W. Glare
country	United Kingdom
language	English
publisher	Oxford University Press
release_date	1968 to 1982; reprinted with corrections 1996; 2nd edition 2012
media_type	Print (Hardcover)
pages	2,400
isbn	978-0-19-958031-6
dewey	473/.21 19
congress	PA2365 .E5 O9 2012

The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon of Classical Latin, compiled from sources written before AD 200. Begun in 1933, it was published in fascicles between 1968 and 1982; a lightly revised second edition was released in 2012.

The dictionary was created in order to meet the need for a more modern Latin-English dictionary than Lewis & Short's A Latin Dictionary (1879),{{Cite web | access-date = 2013-10-19

History

Although Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary was widely used in the English world by the end of the nineteenth century, its faults were widely felt among classicists.{{Cite journal | access-date = 19 October 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130327035452/http://www.oupjapan.co.jp/upload/samples/9780199580316_Introduction.pdf | archive-date = 27 March 2013 | url-status = dead

Other members of the editorial staff included C.O. Brink (1938–42), E.A. Parker (1939–46), M. Alford (1942–45), J. Chadwick (1946–52), B.V. Slater (1947–49), D.C. Browning (1949–50), W.M. Edwards (1950–69), J.D. Craig (1952–53), C.L. Howard (1952–58), G.E. Turton (1954–70), R.H. Barrow (1954–82), S. Trenkner (1955–57), R.C. Palmer (1957–82), G.M. Lee (1968–82), and D. Raven (1969–70).

In 2012, a second edition of the dictionary was published in two volumes (the binding of the 1982 single-volume edition tends to fall apart under the paper's weight); it removes some English translations now considered to be archaic and presents the material in a clearer fashion using the Arno typeface.

Comparison with other dictionaries

Although the OLD was intended as a replacement for the Lewis and Short dictionary from 1879, the decision to exclude Latin written after AD 200 has drawn criticism from users.{{Cite book

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae has a far more ambitious scope than the OLD, but after more than 100 years, only two-thirds of this comprehensive dictionary has been published.{{Cite journal | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url-access = subscription

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