Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary

by Alastair Wilson

Book Overview

Teach Yourself Latin Dictionaryprovides a comprehensive vocabulary and a concise grammar section. Idiomatic usage is also covered to create a dictionary that is easy to use. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844238120
• ISBN13: 9780844238128
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Best portable Latin reference

This book should be more appropriately titled "Latin Reference" for it is not only a dictionary but has a full reference too all the declensions, conjugations, tenses, pronouns, numerals etc. The dictionary is the best of all the pocket Latin dictionaries I've encountered. It features a lot of words that are very obscure in nature and words that have been censored by other dictionaries like the Latin word for "Tail." It also features a list of Proper Names as in Country/City names and a Person's name such as Caesar. The main dictionary section features both a "Latin to English" and a "English to Latin" which makes translating and creating your own sentences much easier. This book is the ideal reference that is "pocket sized." I carry "Teach Yourself Latin: Latin Dictionary" with me everywhere for quick reference. However don't expect it to teach you new lessons, it is fundamentally a reference. Look to Wheelock's Latin or Moreland and Fleischer's "Latin: An Intensive Course" for learning Latin.

Good standard dictionary

I have found this book as a good translation device when working with Latin. It does not go into great detail concerning grammer or anything else, but for a cheap book to translate words from latin into english, and vise versa, then I highly recomend this book. If you are looking to become a master of the Latin language, then there is really only one choice, which is Wheelock's Latin.

Excellent Source

This is one of the better Latin to English books on the market. It's format was great and easy to use. I was a first year Laitin student in the ninth grade and I got straight A's the whole year, thanks in part to this book. I would recommend it to any beginner or someone wanting to brush up on the language. It really is a great source.