Medieval Latin Dictionary from British Sources

《英国来源的中世纪拉丁语词典》是一部独特的历史参考著作，基于欧洲最大的命名作者语料库和最大的文学、档案和金石来源档案。它不仅涵盖了古典拉丁语和晚期拉丁语时期（从开始到公元200年和200 - 600年）的用法，而且涵盖了中世纪的整个时期：从第六世纪到第十六世纪的1100年。它以《牛津英语词典》和《牛津拉丁语词典》的标准格式记录了中心词、词源、定义和说明用法的引文，记录了从高级文学到档案甚至是通俗登记的完整范围，并结合了从各种各样的其他语言（希腊语、闪米特语、凯尔特语、日耳曼语和罗曼语）借来的词。由于这本词典经常说明在拉丁语中使用的白话词，而这些白话词的使用早于白话文本中记录的数百年，因此这项工作对于研究中世纪和现代语言和文学以及拉丁语的长期历史至关重要。即使在完成之前，该词典已经确立了自己的卓越地位，对语言，文学，历史，哲学，系谱学，音乐，艺术和建筑，钱币学，命名学，地形学的学生以及文本的编辑和翻译都有广泛的实用性。它的完成和在线可用性将在2014年由AHRC和Packard人文学院共同资助，这将是一项具有国际重要性的成就。该词典将涵盖其他版本中没有涉及的特定英国词汇，并将成为该学院的主要和必不可少的参考书。

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is a unique work of historical reference, based upon the largestcorpus of named authors and the largest archive of literary, archival, and epigraphic sources anywhere in Europe. Itcovers not only the usages of the Classical Latin and Late Latin periods (from the beginnings to AD 200 and 200-600),but the entire period of the Middle Ages: the 1100 years from the sixth century to the sixteenth. It records in the standardformat of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Latin Dictionary head-words, etymologies, definitions, andquotations that illustrate usage, documenting a complete range from high literary to archival and even demotic registers,incorporating words borrowed from a uniquely wide variety of other languages / Greek, Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, andRomance. As the Dictionary often illustrates use in Latin of vernacular words hundreds of years before their recorded usein vernacular texts, the work is essential to the study of medieval and modern languages and literatures as well as thelong history of Latin. Even before its completion the Dictionary has established itself as pre-eminent, with widelyacknowledged usefulness to students of language, literature, history, philosophy, genealogy, music, art and architecture,numismatics, onomastics, topography, and to editors and translators of texts.Its completion and online availability by 2014 by a combination of AHRC and Packard Humanities Institute funding will be an achievement ofinternational importance. The Dictionary will be able to cover specific British vocabularies not dealt with in other editions.It will serve as primary and essential reference volume to the academy.