![]() The supplemental entries are marked with signs to show the nature of the changes they call for. The Supplement primarily takes the form of a list of additions and corrections to the main text, sorted by entry. As the title page of the Lexicon makes clear (and the prefaces to the main text and to the Supplement attest), this editorial work has been performed "with the cooperation of many scholars". Since 1988, it has been edited by Glare and Anne A. ![]() Glare, editor of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (not to be confused with Lewis and Short's A Latin Dictionary). The Supplement was initially edited by M. Neither the addenda nor the Supplement has ever been merged into the main text, which still stands as originally composed by Liddell, Scott, Jones, and McKenzie. However, in 1968, these were replaced by a Supplement to the LSJ. In comparison to the smaller abridgement, this "Middle Liddell" contains more entries covering the essential vocabulary of most commonly read Ancient Greek literature, adds citations of the authors to illustrate the history of Greek usage (without identifying the passages), and provides more help with irregular forms.Īfter the publication of the ninth edition in 1940, and shortly after the deaths of both Stuart Jones and McKenzie, the OUP maintained a list of addenda et corrigenda ("additions and corrections"), which was bound with subsequent printings. In 1889, an intermediate edition of the lexicon, An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, was prepared on the basis of the seventh edition (1883) of LSJ. For example, a reprint, re-typeset in 2007, of the 1909 edition is available from Simon Wallenberg Press. In 1843, the same year as the full lexicon's publication, A Lexicon: Abridged from Liddell and Scott's Greek–English Lexicon, sometimes called "the Little Liddell" was published. Two condensed editions of LSJ were published by Oxford University Press and remain in print. For example, χέζω ( chezo, 'to shit'), is translated as "ease oneself, do one's need" βινέω ( bineo, 'to fuck') as "inire, coire, of illicit intercourse" and λαικάζω ( laikazo, 'to suck cocks') as "to wench". The LSJ's definitions reflect the Victorian morality of its time. It is also sometimes compared with the Bauer lexicon, which is a similar work focused on the Greek of the New Testament. The LSJ is sometimes compared and contrasted with A Latin Dictionary by Lewis and Short, which was also published by Oxford University Press (OUP). The eighth edition (1897) was the last edition published during Liddell's lifetime. The first editor of the LSJ, Henry George Liddell, was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and the father of Alice Liddell, the eponymous Alice of the writings of Lewis Carroll. ![]() It was published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford rather than by Talboys, who died before the first edition (1843) was complete. Īccording to Stuart Jones's preface to the ninth (1925) edition, the creation of the Lexicon was originally proposed by David Alphonso Talboys, an Oxford publisher. The LSJ main edition has 116,502 entries. It is now conventionally referred to as Liddell & Scott, Liddell–Scott–Jones, or LSJ, and its three sizes are sometimes referred to as "The Little Liddell", "The Middle Liddell" and "The Big Liddell" or "The Great Scott". The Lexicon has served as the basis for all later lexicographical work on the ancient Greek language, such as the ongoing Greek– Spanish dictionary project Diccionario Griego–Español (DGE). It was based on the earlier Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache by the German lexicographer Franz Passow (first published in 1819, fourth edition 1831), which in turn was based on Johann Gottlob Schneider's Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch. The lexicon was begun in the 19th century, and is now in its ninth (revised) edition, published in 1940. ![]() It was initially the basis for the 2021 Cambridge Greek Lexicon, although subsequently that became a complete rewrite from scratch. Abridged versions and a supplement exist. It was most recently revised for its ninth edition of 1940. A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott ( / ˈ l ɪ d əl/) or Liddell–Scott–Jones ( LSJ), is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language originally edited by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie and published in 1843 by the Oxford University Press.
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