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
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	3rd	2013	2,400	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 [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

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

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 [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

• 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

• Dictionnaire grec ancien Lexilogos
• Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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