Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries


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

General dictionaries

TitlePublisher/authorFirst publishedLatest editionYearPagesEntries Source citationsVolumesTranslation languagePeriod coveredNotes
Thesaurus Graecae LinguaeHenri Estienne1572Latin
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches HandwörterbuchJohann Gottlob Schneider1797German
Handwörterbuch der griechischen SpracheFranz Passow18194th1831German
Griechisch-Deutsches HandwörterbuchWilhelm Pape1842German
A Greek–English LexiconLiddell, Scott, Jones, Roderick McKenzie18439th1940, 1996 , plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplementEnglish8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Dictionnaire grec-françaisAnatole Bailly189526th2020107,8091French
A Lexicon of the Homeric DialectRichard John Cunliffe192432012427, plus 64 supplemental9809>46,9001EnglishHomeric
Vocabolario greco-italianoLorenzo Rocci19393rd19431ItalianIn 2011 a new edition was released with restyled graphics and some corrections and modernizations
Старогръцко-български речникъ et al.19394th19921Bulgarian8th c. BCE – 4th c. CE
Древнегреческо-русский словарь19582Russian8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Słownik grecko-polski 1958–19654Polish
A Patristic Greek LexiconGeoffrey Hugo Lampe19611,5681English2nd c. CE – 9th c. CE
Diccionario Griego-EspañolSpanish National Research Council198020191,953 8 SpanishMycenaean - 6th c. CEIn progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις.
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca19954rd2025+1Italian8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE
Cambridge Greek LexiconJames Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press2021 approx+2English8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE