Abstract
Ancient and medieval Latin lexicography is characterized by glossaries for practical and educational purposes. Few monolingual dictionaries from late antiquity have survived. During the Middle Ages Latin lexicography flourished. Renaissance achievements were Ambrosius Calepinus'Dictionarium (1502) and the Dictionarium seu Latinae linguae thesaurus (1531) by Robertus Stephanus. The major milestone of Latin lexicography is Egidio Forcellini's Totius latinitatis lexicon (1771). Medieval Latin was covered lexicographically by Du Cange's Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis (1678). At present the most complete Latin dictionaries are being compiled in Germany: Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) covers the language from the beginnings until 600 a.d. and Das Mittellateinische Wörterbuch from 600 a.d. to 1280.
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