Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Dictionaries that are Latino-Latinum

There are a few Latino-Latinum dictionaries around, but few 'pocket' ones.


Formulae latinarum locutionum illustriorum. Stephano Doleto Gallo Aurelio has a selection of definitions and phrases.


There are a few other useful dictionaries and lexica - though most are for 'walled gardens' of vocabulary for specific subject areas or a particular corpus of work. Apart from the ones mentioned already, (apologies if some of these have already been noted) I can think of:-



Gradus ad Parnassum - not strictly a dictionary, but it gives synonyms and antonyms, so often enough detail to work out what a word means, assuming you already have a baseline vocabulary.

Hortulus Puerorum

 Lexicon Ciceronianum

Lexicon Technologiae Latinorum Rhetoricae

Perfectissimus Calepinus Parvus

Calepinus - Latinae atque adeo etiam Graecae Linguae Dictionarium

Glossarium Eroticum Linguae Latinae

 Thesaurus Eroticus Linguae Latinae



Robert Étienne's Thesaurus
- Gesner's Novus Thesaurus 

- Forcellini's Totius Latinitatis Lexicon
- Wagner's Lexicon Latinum


Sunday, 31 January 2016

Eclecta Puerilia

Matthew Raine's 'Eclecta Puerilia'

Matthew Raine's 'Eclecta Puerilia' was published in Newcastle, in 1768.

The book presents itself as a Latin reader for beginners - and it follows a course of training, not untypical of that followed by an eighteenth century schoolboy.

The initial section somewhat mirrors Comenius' Vestibulum of the Latin Language, but is more structured, with an emphasis on simple verbal forms (The present tense, past tense,and imperative).

The second level has longer sentences, followed by a series of proverbs and simple expressions.

Following on from this, the student is introduced to a selection of simple Colloquia, drawn from Corderius.

Subsequent to this, a selection of Latin Fables.

Next in order, comes a section called 'Colloquia Sacra', an extensive section, which appears to be drawn from Castellio's Dialogorum Sacrorum.


Sunday, 24 January 2016

Latinum's Free Latin Course for Spoken Latin

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The complete Adler Audio Course is now available on Patreon.

I have the following beginners materials on YouTube:

1. Cursum Latinum Molendinarii Pars I (Free) (Latin taught using only Latin)





5. The London Latin Course (Free) (Latin taught with some English explanations)

6. Conversational Latin (Free) (Latin and English phrases)

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