Latin Dictionaries/Lexicons

Butters

It seems to me that dictionaries are critical and essential beasts at the heart of what makes Logos such an amazing resource.    

All of my hardcopy dictionaries - my OED, my Lewis & Short, my OLD, my LSJ, etc. - now look mighty inert sitting on my study shelves.  Huge, unwieldy, and just lacking in so many ways - not dynamically linked, unsearchable, etc.  I am hoping that in the near future, I shall be able to  probably put them out to retirement in the living room, where they can enjoy cocktail hour, where our guests can gaze upon their spines lovingly.  [:)]

I own Logos' LSJ and love it.  And I've bid on the Lewis & Short - and Logos is correct, it is an excellent dictionary.

Still, it's hard to believe that the OUP doesn't want to expand its market for a volume (the Oxford Latin Dictionary) that, really, as a printed resource, has probably seen its day.  

So I am still hoping that the Oxford Latin Dictionary - and even the OED - will be in the works someday.  And maybe even Forcellini's Lexicon Totius Latinitatis.

Dan Francis

Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary is trying to be published but not enough interest has been shown in it. The Oxford Latin Dictionary was, as I understand it, close to done, when OUP pulled the contract. It had been under development for sometime by Logos but then vanished  of pre-pub status. So add your bid to L & S and hopefully as you said OLD will make it to Logos.

-Dan