Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

Last updated

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

Contents

General dictionaries

TitlePublisher/authorFirst publishedLatest editionYearPagesEntries (approx.)Source citationsVolumesTranslation languagePeriod coveredNotes
Thesaurus Graecae Linguae Henri Estienne 15725 Latin
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch Johann Gottlob Schneider 1797 German
Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache Franz Passow 18194th1831 German
Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch Wilhelm Pape 1842 German
A Greek–English Lexicon Liddell, Scott, Jones, Roderick McKenzie18439th1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement)2,042, plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement116,502 English 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Dictionnaire grec-français Anatole Bailly 189526th20202,230107,8091 French
A Lexicon of the Homeric DialectRichard John Cunliffe192432012427, plus 64 supplemental9809>46,9001EnglishHomeric
Vocabolario greco-italianoLorenzo Rocci19393rd19432,074150,0001 Italian In 2011 a new edition was released with restyled graphics and some corrections and modernizations
Древнегреческо-русский словарь Iosif Dvoretsky  [ ru ]19581,90470,0002 Russian 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
A Patristic Greek Lexicon Geoffrey Hugo Lampe 19611,5681 English 2nd c. CE – 9th c. CE
Diccionario Griego-Español Spanish National Research Council 19802019 [1] 1,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol.VIII)8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις) [2] Spanish Mycenaean - 6th c. CEIn progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις.
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca Franco Montanari  [ it ]19954rd20252,760140,000+1 Italian 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE
Cambridge Greek Lexicon James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press2021 [3] 1,500 approx37,000+ [4] 2 English 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch)

Translated general dictionaries

TitlePublisher/authorFirst
published
Latest
edition
YearPagesEntries
(approx.)
Source
citations
VolumesTranslation
language
Period
covered
Translation
from
Grčko-hrvatski rječnik za škole  [ hr ]Stjepan Senc19101,022>30,0001 Croatian G.E. Benseler  [ de ] & A. Kaegi, Griechisch-deutsches Schulwörterbuch
Dizionario illustrato greco-italianoLiddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie, Q. Cataudella, M. Manfredi, F. Di Benedetto19751,568>35,0001 Italian Middle Liddell
GE -The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Franco Montanari  [ it ], Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder20152,431140,0001 English 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CEItalian 3rd edition
GD - Wörterbuch Griechisch-Deutsch Franco Montanari  [ it ], Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger20232,990140,0001 German 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CEItalian 3rd edition
Σύγχρονο λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσας Franco Montanari  [ it ], Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος20133rd20182,446140,0001 Modern Greek 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CEItalian 3rd edition

Etymological dictionaries

TitleAuthorFirst publishedLatest editionPagesEntries (approx.)VolumesTranslation languageOnline
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Griechischen SpracheWalther Prellwitz18921905 (2nd)3821 German scan at Google Books
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque Émile Boisacq  [ fr ]1907-19161938 (3rd)1,1231 French scan at Internet Archive
Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen Johann Baptist Hofmann  [ de ]19491971 (3rd)4331 German
Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch Hjalmar Frisk 1960-19722,4046,5303 German digitised text (Leiden University)
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Historie des mots Pierre Chantraine 196820091,436+ 78pp. supplement4 (in a single vol. in 2009) French
Etymological Dictionary of Greek Robert Beekes 20091,808+ 64pp. introduction7,5002 English

Onomastic dictionaries

TitlePublisher/authorFirst publishedLatest editionYearPagesEntries (approx.)Source citationsVolumesTranslation languagePeriod coveredNotes
Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen Wilhelm Pape, Gustav Eduard Benseler  [ de ]18423rd18841,7102 German
Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit Friedrich Bechtel 19176371 German
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names Peter Fraser, Elaine Matthews 1987–20183,8005 (in 9 issues) + 1 AnnexEnglish

References

Notes

  1. "Editorial CSIC : Libro : Diccionario griego-español. Volumen VIII". editorial.csic.es. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  2. "Diccionario Griego-Español (DGE) VIII exauros - episkenosis". hdl:10261/201547. Archived from the original on 2024-03-17. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
  3. Holroyd, A. J. (13 April 2021). "Publication of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon". www.classics.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  4. Methodology and Future Use Archived 2024-06-01 at the Wayback Machine , Cambridge Greek Lexicon