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Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

and

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

dictionaries. Developed by Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan in 2011, it is hosted by the

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. Apart from simultaneous search capabilities across different dictionaries and reference works, Logeion offers access to frequency and collocation data from the

Perseus Project The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University. One of the pioneers of digital libraries, ...

Features

Having started out as an aggregator for Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries, Logeion has implemented multiple new features in its development. These include: *the integration of reference works on antiquity; *frequency and

collocation In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words t ...

data from the

; *corpus examples, equally retrieved from the Perseus Project; *references to relevant chapters in a number of (English-language) textbooks. Furthermore, an

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app was developed by Joshua Day in 2013. The app's second version, launched in 2018, is also available for Android devices.

Dictionaries

As of November 2018, Logeion contains the following dictionaries.

Dictionaries with full-text search

Ancient Greek dictionaries

*Autenrieth, G. (1891). ''A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges''. New York: Harper and Brothers. *Liddell, H. G., & Scott, R. (1889). ''An Intermediate Greek Lexicon''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *Liddell, H. G., Scott, R., Jones, H. S., & McKenzie, R. (1940). ''

A Greek-English Lexicon A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient ...

''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *Slater, W. L. (1969). ''Lexicon to Pindar''. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Latin dictionaries

*Lewis, Ch. T., & Short, Ch. (1879). ''

A Latin Dictionary ''A Latin Dictionary'' (or ''Harpers' Latin Dictionary'', often referred to as Lewis and Short or L&S) is a popular English-language lexicographical work of the Latin language, published by Harper and Brothers of New York in 1879 and printed ...

''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. *Lewis, Ch. T. (1890). ''An Elementary Latin Dictionary''. New York: American Book Company.

Dictionaries without full-text search

Ancient Greek dictionaries

*Adrados, F. R., & Somolinos, J. R. (Eds.). '' Diccionario Griego-Español''. Madrid: CSIC. *Muñoz Delgado, L. (2001). ''Léxico de magia y religión en los papiros mágicos griegos''. Madrid: CSIC.

Latin dictionaries

*Babeliowsky, J. K. L., den Hengst, D., Holtland, W., van Lakwijk, W., Marcelis, J. Th. K., Pinkster, H., Smolenaars, J. J. L. (1975). ''Basiswoordenlijst Latijn''. Den Haag: Staatsuitgeverij. * Du Cange, Ch. et al. (1883-1887). ''Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis''. Niort: L. Favre. *Frieze, H. S. (1902). ''Vergil’s Aeneid Books I-XII, with an Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, revised by Walter Dennison''. New York: American Book Company. *Gaffiot, F. (1934). '' Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français''. Paris: Hachette. *Latham, R. E., Howlett, D. R., & Ashdowne, R. K. (1975-2013). '' The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources''. London: British Academy. *Pinkster, H. (Ed.) (2018). ''Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands''. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Reference works

*NA (n.d.). ''The Perseus Encyclopedia''. Medford, MA: Tufts University. *Peck, H. Th. (1898). ''

Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities ''Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities'' is an English-language encyclopedia on subjects of classical antiquity. Publication history It was edited by Harry Thurston Peck and published 1898 by Harper & Brothers in New York C ...

''. New York: Harper and Brothers. *Smith, W. (1854). ''

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' is the last in a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), following '' A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' and the '' Dictionary of G ...

''. London: Walter and Maberly; John Murray. *Smith, W., Wayte, W., & Marindin, G. E. (1890). '' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities''. London: John Murray. *Stilwell, R. (1976). ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites''. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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