Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

The following tables compare Ancient Greek dictionaries, in any language.

Main Lexicographical works

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	French
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch	Johann Gottlob Schneider	1797							German
Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache	Franz Passow	1819	4th	1831					German
A Greek–English Lexicon	Liddell, Scott, Jones, 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
Vocabolario greco-italiano	Lorenzo Rocci	1939	3rd	1943	2,074	150,000		1	Italian
Dictionnaire grec-français	Anatole Bailly	1895	26th	1963	2,230			1	French
Diccionario Griego-Español	Spanish National Research Council	1980		2009	1,671 (up to ἔξαυος, vol.VII)	60,000+ (up to ἔξαυος, 300,000 estimated when completed)	370,000+ (up to ἔξαυος)	7 (up to ἔξαυος)	Spanish		In progress, up to ἔξαυος.
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca	Franco Montanari	1995	3rd	2013	2,400	140,000		1	Italian	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE
Ancient Greek-English Lexicon	James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press	2020 (currently in production)			1,500 approx	37,000+[1]		2	English	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch)

Translated editions of dictionaries

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	source citations	volumes	Translation language	Period covered	Notes
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek	Franco Montanari, Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder	2015			2,431	140,000		1	English	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE	Translation from the Italian 3rd edition.

Ethymological and other 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	Pierre Chantraine	1968		1980	1,436+ 78pp. supplement			4 (in a single vol. in 2009)	French

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, official project webpage
• The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Interview with Prof. James Diggle, Oct 28, 2019

External links

• Grex Ancien Dictionnaire
• Cambridge Greek Lexicon

Notes

1. Methodology and Future Use, Cambridge Greek Lexicon