A Greek-English Lexicon | work by Liddell and Scott | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in Liddell’s biography

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  In Henry George Liddell
  …and co-editor of the standard Greek– English Lexicon (1843; 8th ed., 1897; revised by H.S. Jones and others, 1940; abridged, 1957; intermediate, 1959). In 1834 he and a fellow student at Oxford, Robert Scott, began preparing the Lexicon, basing their work on the Greek–German lexicon of Francis Passow, professor at the…
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history of dictionaries

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  In dictionary: Major dictionaries
  …George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, published in a first edition in 1843. For Russian the Soviet Academy of Arts produced a useful work in four volumes (1957–61). Many linguists have attempted to cover Arabic; for long the most useful work was that of Hans Wehr, as translated…
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