Cassell's Standard Latin Dictionary: A Reliable Classical Reference for English Translation, Idioms, and Ancient Authors

Purchased used in hardcover. Perfect condition and it's filled with latin words which is very important in its role as a Latin dictionary. I picked Cassell's as it's one of the recommended dictionaries from a number of learning sites. Just beginning a Latin learning path. Good luck.

My daughter bought this for her Latin course in school. She was very happy when it arrived. She absolutely loves it as its been a great help in making sure her Latin grammar, word forms/tenses...etc are all correct before turning in her homework assignment. True there are not many places on earth where she can use her Latin except for ...during her visit to the Vatican/Vatican City/Rome when her school took the students there for an entire summer semester. Its also been helping her know the root meaning of words in her law and science classes. For those of you with brainiac kiddos who love Latin, this is an excellent helpful book.

I have several Latin dictionaries, among which I usually consult Traupman's dictionary. This time I tried this Cassell's dictionary, following an advice by Latinitium.com. I still like Traupman's, but Cassell's pleases me too. This dictionary is well organized and structured. I can "understand" how each word has come to have such and such meanings by reading its definition. Trauptman's is very useful because it shows several meanings of a word almost like a list, but this way of consulting does not always leave deep impressions on your memory. Cassell's has a hard cover, while the other one is of paper-back. I appreciate hard covers because I often uses dictionaries. I hope that they will last long. But I do not like thumb index of Cassell's so much. They demand some space of each page even if it is not so much. I would like that Cassell's would have little bigger fonts, while I prefer Trauptman's clear and "eye-friendly" fonts. The latter has larger space for each page without any thumb indexes.

This dictionary is really cheap, and even has proper nouns! It's the first dictionary I've ever owned, but some useful features I've found are: it gives the basic meaning of the word, then lists literal and figurative/transferred meanings; it quotes Latin to help give the meaning of words; it has tabs on the side indicating where letters are located in the book, making it faster to find words; for compound words, it lists the component words e.g. comes -itis c. (cum/eo) and also, if the word came from Greek, the Greek word it came from; it also indicates short and long vowels. The only downside is that it's not for beginners. It assumes you have complete knowledge of grammar, as there are no grammar tables, and also assumes you have some understanding of the vocab, e.g. it doesn't list irregular verb parts.

Very good for my grandson’s home work

This is a far better value than the Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary for about the same price. (See my review of that book.) It doesn't come up to the standard of the great Lewis & Short work, but for less than 1/10 the cost, it's a good deal. Note the differences in the entry for the latin coepi: Oxford Desk: coepi, issi coeptum v ir begin (with a parenthetical note to differentiated usage re incipio in classical Latin.) Casssell's: coepio, coepere coepi coeptum (the present tenses ante-class., being replaced by those from incipio; the perfect-stem tenses, supine, etc., are class.; derived from the obs. verb apio, to begin, commence. (I) act., coepi = I have begun or I began; fut. part. coepturus; absol,: dies coepit, Sall.; with acc.: orationem, Tac., coepturos bellum ..... etc., with numerous further examples from classical Latin writers and a following section (2) covering passive usage in the same manner. The general type face is a little bit smaller than the Oxford Desk, but it doesn't matter because the paper quality is so much better that the type is clear and readable. (Some sections of the oxford are much smaller type face still, almost to the point of illegibility.) Specialists with deep pockets will want to go whole hog for the more than $200 Lewis & Short, but for under $20 the Cassell's will be all a normal student needs -- within the classical period. Medieval/church Latin is a different proposition.

I was hesitant at first, what with the totally orange cover, but having used this for a week or so now, I can say that it this is a wonderful dictionary. Descriptions are concise but informative, with authors listed, and I love the letter tabs. I never considered before how much this could speed up my reading. Moreover, the hardcover rests nicely when opened; not letting pages fly back when you go to write down a definition. I've even come to like the orange cover. I would absolutely recommend this for someone doing any university level Latin.

650 pages of Latin to English. 331 paged of English to Latin. Good binding, good paper, good printing. Can't seen to find anything wrong with this excellent dictionary.

The best thing about this dictionary, and the thing that sets it above my Pocket Oxford and Collins dictionaries, is the amount of detail given for each Latin word. Rather than just listing possible translations, Cassell's lists a word's literal and figurative meanings and also gives examples of its use, making it far easier to find a precise sense. While the dictionary has an English-Latin section, the emphasis (quite rightly) is on the Latin-English, with more than two-thirds of the book dedicated to the Latin. There is no grammar section, and irregular parts of verbs rarely have their own headwords, so Latin improvers (or duffers like me - caught out by mansum once too often) will still benefit from owning the Collins dictionary, which is very strong on irregular verbs. Overall though, Cassell's is excellent value if you want to get more out of your Latin.

oxfordの辞書には記載されている第三変化i幹名詞の複数属格の-iumも見出しで記載されていたらベストだった。

Good classic dictionary for this price. The font is not too small, the entries are more substantive than the ones found in the average dictionary and it is quite light. The « depth » of the entries is comparable to the abribdged version of the Liddell & Scott Ancient Greek dictionary. So this is good for finding different uses, idioms or etymologies. Overall, quite compact and sufficient enough for studying latin at the undergrad level (and the english to latin is useful for original compositions)

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I bought this dictionary on the recommendation of a friend, and it has served me incredibly well throughout my Latin education. I took courses in Ovid, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and even Solinus, and Cassell's was invaluable to me. The only times that I ran into strange words that were not in this dictionary were when I took a course in mediaeval Latin. The English-to-Latin section is not quite as good as the Latin-to-English, largely because some of the entries are a little dated, but still serves well, on the whole. All in all, I recommend Cassell's very highly for use with all classical authors, as well as with late and mediaeval authors when a more comprehensive dictionary is unavailable.