# Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

The following tables compare Ancient Greek dictionaries, in any language.

## Main lexicographical works

| Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | source citations | volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Notes |
| Thesaurus Graecae Linguae | Henri Estienne | 1572 | | | | | | 5 | Latin | | |
| Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch | Johann Gottlob Schneider | 1797 | | | | | | | German | | |
| Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache | Franz Passow | 1819 | 4th | 1831 | | | | | German | | |
| Griechisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch | Wilhelm Pape | 1842 | | | | | | | German | | |
| A Greek–English Lexicon | Liddell, Scott, Jones, Roderick McKenzie | 1843 | 9th | 1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement) | 2,042, plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement | 116,502 | | | English | 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE | |
| Dictionnaire grec-français | Anatole Bailly | 1895 | 26th | 2020 | 2,230 | 107,809 | | 1 | French | | |
| A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect | Richard John Cunliffe | 1924 | 3 | 2012 | 427, plus 64 supplemental | 9809 | >46,900 | 1 | English | Homeric | |
| Vocabolario greco-italiano | Lorenzo Rocci | 1939 | 3rd | 1943 | 2,074 | 150,000 | | 1 | Italian | | In 2011 was released a new edition with restyled graphics and some corrections and modernizations |
| A Patristic Greek Lexicon | Geoffrey Hugo Lampe | 1961 | | | 1,568 | | | 1 | English | 2nd c. CE – 9th c. CE | |
| Diccionario Griego-Español | Spanish National Research Council | 1980 | | 2019 | 1,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol.VIII) | | | 8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις) | Spanish | Mycenaean - 6th c. CE | In progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις. |
| GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca | Franco Montanari | 1995 | 3rd | 2013 | 2,400 | 140,000 | | 1 | Italian | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | |
| Cambridge Greek Lexicon | James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press | 2021 | | | 1,500 approx | 37,000+ | | 2 | English | 8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch) | |

## Translated editions of dictionaries

| Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | Volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Translation from |
| Dizionario illustrato greco-italiano | Liddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie, Q. Cataudella, M. Manfredi, F. Di Benedetto | 1975 | | | 1,568 | >35,000 | 1 | Italian | | Middle Liddell |
| GE -The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek | Franco Montanari, Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder | 2015 | | | 2,431 | 140,000 | 1 | English | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | Italian 3rd edition |
| GD - Wörterbuch Griechisch-Deutsch | Franco Montanari, Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger | 2023 | | | 2,990 | 140,000 | 1 | German | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | Italian 3rd edition |
| Σύγχρονο λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής γλώσσας | Franco Montanari, Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος | 2013 | 3rd | 2018 | 2,446 | 140,000 | 1 | Modern Greek | 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE | Italian 3rd edition |

## Etymological and other dictionaries

| Title | Publisher/author | First published | Latest edition | Year | Pages | Entries (approx.) | source citations | volumes | Translation language | Period covered | Notes |
| Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque | Pierre Chantraine | 1968 | | 1980 | 1,436+ 78pp. supplement | | | 4 (in a single vol. in 2009) | French | | |
| Etymological Dictionary of Greek | Robert Beekes | 2009 | | | 1,808+ 64pp. introduction | 7,500 | | 2 | English | | |