@Adam It's complicated. All the dictionaries have their strengths and weaknesses.
Glare is more updated, but Lewis & Short has the better layout. For shorter dictionaries, Cassell's is the more updated, but Smith & Lockwood has a few things Cassell's missed and is a tad bit more detailed in some parts.
Cassell's would be my first choice, but my first dictionary was actually Smith & Lockwood.
I remember not liking Traupman, but it might have been because it was a super cheap paperback version.
It doesn't seem any worse at glance. There's also the Shorter Latin Dictionary, which is an abridgement of Lewis & Short, but that would be redundant with the proper Lewis and Short.
What did Oxford change in transitioning replacing L&S with OLD? I guess I'm curious if there are significant changes or revisions, or if it was just minor updates and a new name.
I can ask this one on the site if that seems like a better forum.
Very much. It's not a simple re-working, it's a different dictionary altogether.
But because it's a century+ newer, you'll get more accuracy in words more often. There are late Latin (200 CE and thereafter) words that don't appear in it, though, that do appear in Lewis and Short.
They also arrange definitions differently, with L&S arranging from literal to metaphorical and extended, while the OLD is purely chronological according to attestation.
@cmw L&S seems better for arranging them by usage rather than chronology, unless you're specifically looking to write something for a very specific time frame. I guess if you're purely reading, the latter might make more sense.
Kind of a bummer they don't include later Latin words, but I guess for me I'm mostly interested in classical anyway.
@Adam The latter has its uses, but because it relies on attestation, it ignores what the likely development was.
Like, yes, meaning A appears in the record first, but it must have developed from meaning B, though there is no written record of meaning B until after meaning A.
It's easier to do this with the OED, since written records are much more abundant for English than Latin.
Microsoft Fenestrae version CE 195 and the Y200 bug
Ohhh, I just had an idea for the character set I was making for use with the mythology I created; I'll use separate characters for long vowels and dipthongs.
