Lewis and Short Latin-English Lexicon

Lewis and Short's Latin-English Lexicon (1879)

For most purposes, this separate database for a single dictionary should now be obsolete. You can consult all these resources together in Logeion, which contains copies of the dictionaries that are more frequently updated, and more besides: the DGE and DuCange accompany LSJ and Lewis & Short, and you will also find frequency data, collocations, and examples from the corpus. Click the link here to see the entry for lex. There is even an app for your phone! The options offered below are useful if instead of searching for particular entries (the normal mode of using a dictionary), you want to search the full text.


Search dictionary headwords
Search headwords for:

Select a Search Option:	Exact match (eg, "roma" will find only "Roma")
	String searching (eg, "roma" will find "aroma," "monochromata," "Roma," etc.)

When doing string searching, use the ^ sign to match the beginning of words: ^fer will only return words starting in fer-, not, e.g., aufero; use the $ sign to match the end of words: ero$ will only return words ending in -ero, not, e.g., heros.


Search the Full Text
Search the full text for:	(e.g., conversational, or by lot or fec*)
	Similar Word Search
Select a Search Option:	Single Term and Phrase Search (default) Proximity Searching in the same Sentence or in the same Paragraph

By default, full-text results include only words exactly matching the string you entered. Entering fero will only return fero.
The asterisk is a wildcard character (fer* retrieves any words starting in fer-: fert, ferrum, etc.).
'Similar word' search finds similar words if the word entered is longer than five characters. Your mileage may vary!

Click SEARCH (or hit Enter at anytime) to execute your Search; click CLEAR to clear the entire form and start over.
You will normally use the headword search and full-text search options separately; however, it is possible to search the text of large entries by entering the headword in the upper search box and another string in the lower search box. This restricts the full-text search to just one entry.
The search form does not allow for punctuation marks, but if you are looking, say, for all citations of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus in the lexicon, simply enter "Plaut Mil" without punctuation.