Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

Last updated July 05, 2025

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						5	Latin
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch	Johann Gottlob Schneider	1797							German
Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache	Franz Passow	1819	4th	1831					German
Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch	Wilhelm Pape	1842							German
A Greek–English Lexicon	Liddell, Scott, Jones, Roderick McKenzie	1843	9th	1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement)	2,042, plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement	116,502			English	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Dictionnaire grec-français	Anatole Bailly	1895	26th	2020	2,230	107,809		1	French
A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect	Richard John Cunliffe	1924	3	2012	427, plus 64 supplemental	9809	>46,900	1	English	Homeric
Vocabolario greco-italiano	Lorenzo Rocci	1939	3rd	1943	2,074	150,000		1	Italian		In 2011 a new edition was released with restyled graphics and some corrections and modernizations
Древнегреческо-русский словарь	Iosif Dvoretsky [ ru ]	1958			1,904	70,000		2	Russian	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
A Patristic Greek Lexicon	Geoffrey Hugo Lampe	1961			1,568			1	English	2nd c. CE – 9th c. CE
Diccionario Griego-Español	Spanish National Research Council	1980		2019^[1]	1,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol.VIII)			8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις)^[2]	Spanish	Mycenaean - 6th c. CE	In progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις.
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca	Franco Montanari [ it ]	1995	4rd	2025	2,760	140,000+		1	Italian	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE
Cambridge Greek Lexicon	James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press	2021^[3]			1,500 approx	37,000+^[4]		2	English	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch)

Translated general dictionaries

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	Volumes	Translation language	Period covered	Translation from
Grčko-hrvatski rječnik za škole [ hr ]	Stjepan Senc	1910			1,022	>30,000	1	Croatian		G.E. Benseler [ de ] & A. Kaegi, Griechisch-deutsches Schulwörterbuch
Dizionario illustrato greco-italiano	Liddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie, Q. Cataudella, M. Manfredi, F. Di Benedetto	1975			1,568	>35,000	1	Italian		Middle Liddell
GE -The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek	Franco Montanari [ it ], Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder	2015			2,431	140,000	1	English	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE	Italian 3rd edition
GD - Wörterbuch Griechisch-Deutsch	Franco Montanari [ it ], Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger	2023			2,990	140,000	1	German	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE	Italian 3rd edition
Σύγχρονο λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσας	Franco Montanari [ it ], Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος	2013	3rd	2018	2,446	140,000	1	Modern Greek	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE	Italian 3rd edition

Etymological dictionaries

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	volumes	Translation language
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque	Émile Boisacq [ fr ]	1907-1916		1,123		1	French
Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch	Hjalmar Frisk	1960-1972		2,404	6,530	3	German
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque	Pierre Chantraine	1968	1980	1,436+ 78pp. supplement		4 (in a single vol. in 2009)	French
Etymological Dictionary of Greek	Robert Beekes	2009		1,808+ 64pp. introduction	7,500	2	English

Onomastic dictionaries

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Volumes	Translation language
Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen	Wilhelm Pape, Gustav Eduard Benseler [ de ]	1842	3rd	1884	1,710	2	German
Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit	Friedrich Bechtel	1917			637	1	German
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names	Peter Fraser, Elaine Matthews	1987–2018			3,800	5 (in 9 issues) + 1 Annex	English

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

Notes

↑ "Editorial CSIC : Libro : Diccionario griego-español. Volumen VIII". editorial.csic.es. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
↑ "Diccionario Griego-Español (DGE) VIII exauros - episkenosis". hdl:10261/201547. Archived from the original on 2024-03-17. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
↑ 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.
↑ Methodology and Future Use Archived 2024-06-01 at the Wayback Machine , Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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[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

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