Medieval Latin Dictionary

从英国来源的中世纪拉丁语词典是一个独特的工作的历史参考，基于最大的语料库命名的作者和最大的文学档案，档案，和铭文来源在欧洲任何地方。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年和公元200-600年）的用法，而且涵盖了整个中世纪时期：从6世纪到16世纪的1100年。它以牛津英语词典和牛津拉丁词典的标准格式记录了标题词、词源学、定义和说明用法的引文，记录了从高级文学到档案甚至是人口登记的完整范围，包括从各种其他语言（希腊语、闪米特语、凯尔特语、日耳曼语和罗曼语）借来的独特的词。由于《字典》经常说明在白话文本中使用白话单词之前数百年在拉丁语中的使用，因此这项工作对研究中世纪和现代语言和文学以及拉丁语的悠久历史至关重要。甚至在它完成之前，它就已经确立了自己的卓越地位，对语言、文学、历史、哲学、家谱、音乐、艺术和建筑、钱币学、onomastics、地形学的学生以及文本的编辑和翻译都有广泛的帮助。它将于2011年在AHRC和Packard人文研究所的联合资助下完成，这将是一项具有国际重要性的成就。新词典将涵盖其他版本中没有涉及的特定英国词汇。它将作为学院的主要和必要的参考书。

The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is a unique work of historical reference, based upon the largest corpus of named authors and the largest archive of literary, archival, and epigraphic sources anywhere in Europe. It covers 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 standard format of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Latin Dictionary head-words, etymologies, definitions, and quotations 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, and Romance. As the Dictionary often illustrates use in Latin of vernacular words hundreds of years before their recorded use in vernacular texts, the work is essential to the study of medieval and modern languages and literatures as well as the long history of Latin. Even before its completion the Dictionary has established itself as pre-eminent, with widely acknowledged 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 by 2011 by a combination of AHRC and Packard Humanities Institute funding will be an achievement of international 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.