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 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
Старогръцко-български речникъ Mihail Vojnov et al. 1939 4th 1992 917 1 Bulgarian 8th c. BCE – 4th c. CE
Древнегреческо-русский словарь Iosif Dvoretsky 1958 1,904 70,000 2 Russian 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Słownik grecko-polski Zofia Abramowiczówna (ed.) 1958–1965 2,889 4 Polish
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 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.) 		Source
citations 		Volumes Translation
language 		Period
covered 		Translation
from
Grčko-hrvatski rječnik za škole Stjepan Senc 1910 1,022 >30,000 1 Croatian G.E. Benseler & 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, 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, 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, Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος 2013 3rd 2018 2,446 140,000 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) 382 1 German scan at Google Books
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque Émile Boisacq 1907–1916 1938 (3rd) 1,123 1 French scan at Internet Archive
Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen Johann Baptist Hofmann 1949 1971 (3rd) 433 1 German
Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch Hjalmar Frisk 1960–1972 2,404 6,530 3 German digitised text (Leiden University)
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Historie des mots Pierre Chantraine 1968 2009 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 Entries (approx.) Source citations Volumes Translation language Period covered Notes
Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen Wilhelm Pape, Gustav Eduard Benseler 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

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
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