Resources for Latin
DICTIONARIES
- Orbis Latinus (Graesse)Glossary of Latin placenames, from Aara (the Aar, a river in Switzerland) to Zyringae (a town in Turkey)
- Database of Latin Dictionaries*DMLBS recommended
Cross‐dictionary searching of a variety of major dictionaries, including those specifically for the medieval period.
*Access through Brepols Databases
NB: When searching for headwords, remember that different dictionaries have different rules for headwords, so searching amo pulls up “to love” in L&S, but not in DMLBS. Searching amare pulls up “to love” in DMLBS, but in L&S your search ends “bitterly”!
FULL-TEXT DATABASES & CORPORA
- Cross Database Search toolFull‐text searchable database of a comprehensive library of medieval and ancient Latin texts, including the contents of the MGH (Monumenta Germaniae Historica), Library of Latin Texts (Series A & B), Archive of Celtic‐Latin Literature, and Aristoteles Latinus Database.
*Access through Brepols Databases - Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)Searchable full‐text database of everything in the MGH in the form of full‐page PDF scans
- Patrologia Latina (PL)Searchable full‐text version of the works of the Church Fathers from the third century to 1216
- Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)Searchable database of Latin texts from antiquity to neo‐Latin