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Medieval Latin was profoundly influenced by the Vulgate and by the Church fathers, so while the OLD is, of course, very useful, for medievalists, Lewis and Short is probably better: Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (eds), A New Latin Dictionary founded on the Translation of Freund's Latin-German Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879).
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Based entirely on original research, the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources is the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin to have been produced and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin.
Changes in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. Medieval Latin had ceased to be a living language and was instead a scholarly language of the minority of educated men (and a tiny number of women) in medieval Europe, used in official documents more than for everyday communication.
The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (" DMLBS ") is a lexicon of Medieval Latin published by the British Academy. The dictionary is not founded upon any earlier dictionary, but derives from original research.
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Completed in print in 2013, the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources represents the Latin language as written in the British Isles and by Britons abroad from Gildas (mid-sixth century) to Camden (end of the sixteenth century), a canon of more than 2,300 named authors, many anonymous writers, and an archive of diplomatic and ...
