Smith's English-Latin Dictionary (English and Latin Edition) - Softcover

William Smith; Theophilus D. Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865164916 ISBN 13: 9780865164918

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

Smith's English-Latin Dictionary is an invaluable resource for students and teachers who are composing Latin verse and prose. It offers what smaller and less comprehensive dictionaries cannot -- semantic range, depth, and precision. Each entry is composed of an English word, its corresponding Latin equivalents, and examples drawn from a full range of classical writers. The Index of Proper Names contains the Latin forms of names of thousands of persons, places, and geographical features from Greco-Roman history and mythology, as well as the Judeo-Christian Bible.

This reprint edition of Smith and Hall's A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871) includes the original Preface, Entries, and Index of Proper Names. New to the Bolchazy-Carducci edition is a Foreword by Dirk Sacr which places Smith and Hall's dictionary in its historical and pedagogical context.The Bolchazy-Carducci reprint edition also features a new, enlarged, easier-to-read format.

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About this title

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From the Foreword:

Sir William Smith's and Theophilus D. Hall's Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary is one of these monuments of nineteenth-century pedagogy and learning that has no counterpart in late twentieth-century tools for students writing in Latin. It is conspicuous for its critical attitude towards predecessors, the wealth of terms included, the thoughtful investigation of the different shades of meaning of both Latin and English words-the authors avoided the pitfalls of superficial similarity between English and Latin words in proposing equivalent translations-, the number of examples of words and expressions adduced, and the specification of the authors from which the various words and idioms were taken. . . .Works like this invite us to browse through them, searching for the exact equivalent of an English word or for a wealth of unexpected possibilities of expression, help us to write that one Latin sentence an ancient writer would have believed to have been written by a fellow countryman, and guide us to grasp better and better the Latin idiom and the Roman way of thinking.

It is, in short, an indispensable reference tool for ascertaining authentic Roman expression for English words.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0865164916
• ISBN 13: 9780865164918
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 754