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The Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) is an online database comprising a large number of Latin dictionaries. It includes translating dictionaries, etymological dictionaries and historical Latin dictionaries

The DLD dictionary project has high aims: to present new techniques of research for consulting dictionaries and various lexica, both modern and ancient. The project covers both single-language dictionaries and multilingual ones. Further, it links the dictionaries to databases of texts and tools for analysing them.

The database includes the following dictionaries: E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis; E. Forcellini, Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Onomasticon (auctore J. Perin); Ch.T. Lewis, Ch. Short, Latin Dictionary; A. Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens; A. Blaise, Lexicon latinitatis medii aevi; Du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis; Firmini Verris Dictionarius Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius; Guillaume Le Talleur, Dictionarius familiaris et compendiosus; A. Souter, A glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.

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