Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

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

## General dictionaries

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Title  | Publisher/author  | First published  | Latest edition  | Year  | Pages  | Entries (approx.)  | Source citations  | Volumes  | Translation language  | Period covered  | Notes

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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

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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

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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

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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

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* 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

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* Dictionnaire grec ancien Lexilogos
* Cambridge Greek Lexicon

## Notes

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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