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Latin lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences & Humanities) ✡️

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · Dec 16

Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin.
⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen
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Latin Word of the Year 2024

With the Vox Anni contest now in its third season, the Thesaurus linguae Latinae community is excited to share with you the contestants for Latin Word of the Year 2024. (Learn more about the previous ...

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Classics@UnivReading @uorclassics.bsky.social · 12d

Prof. Eleanor Dickey was interviewed by @thesaurosaur.bsky.social about Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek for the TLL Podcast. Check it out below:

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14 INTERVIEW with Eleanor Dickey

Adam Gitner (TLL Lexicographer) interviews Prof. Eleanor Dickey (Reading) about her recent book Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis. Several Latin words are discussed, including a...

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · Jul 30

So excited that my book has a cover. Michigan's design people have outdone themselves in their styling of Mr. Murder Mittens (a massive Roman temple key from Switzerland). Full details here (the e-version will be open access come the publication date): press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stea...

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · Jul 28

It’s that time of year again! The Thesaurus linguae Latinae Summer School off to a lexicographic start

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · Jun 19

Latin grammars of Hebrew apparently have a bunch of nice new verbs: hhatephpathahhatur ... segolatur ... pathahhatur ... dageschatur ... Of course, there's also schevatur 'is shwaified'. 🤓

(pics < 1679 Summarium linguae sanctae @ books.google.de/books?id=wOh...)

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 27

Eleanor Dickey yesterday at the TLL presenting “Warum haben griechischsprachige Personen lateinische Wörter verwendet?” Όπτιμα!

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 22

@solveighilmars.bsky.social !

Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 22

New TLL podcast episode with the talented Sólveig Hilmarsdottir on the complexities of Latin FEMVR!
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FEMVR: Sólveig Hilmarsdottir | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis

Sólveig Hilmarsdottir (Cambridge University) discusses the complex paradigm of femur (gen. feminis or femoris?), its historical origin, and surprising variation in Latin texts. To consult the TLL arti...

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 12

Scholars: every inch of a medieval parchment manuscript was precious!
Scribe of Pal. lat. 1719 (ca. 800, Lorsch?), f. 59r:
Vidi equitantem puerum cui caballus gruis erat, et ipse scurro cum sodalibus suis.

Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 8

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 8

Yes, unfortunately this edition (Adriaen, CC volume 97, 1958) also has lots of misprints in the Latin as well

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 8

Why call it a biblical verse or a pasuk (פסוק) when you could say pasucium?
Cassiodorus, in psalm. praef. 15 lin. 30:

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · May 8

Instapaper used to work well for me but I haven’t tried it in a while

Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · Apr 25

Define ‘rota’ they said, it will be easy they said

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · Apr 25

Applications are now open for Combined Classics Library Bursaries
The Institute of Classical Studies is running a small grants scheme to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025 in order to advance or complete a project.
: ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...

Combined Classics Library Bursaries

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · Mar 19

Periodic reminder how much more Latin evidence the Thesaurus linguae Latinae offers than other Latin dictionaries. Hans Ramminger counted the number of passages cited in the entry imitor in Lewis & Short, the Oxford Latin Dictionary, and the TLL.

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · Mar 17

St. Patrick's Day treats: Lucky Charms for the kids; J.N. Adam's commentary on Patrick's 'Confessio' for me. (P. 445 rom "An Anthology of Informal Latin")

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Adam Gitner @thesaurosaur.bsky.social · Mar 17

What is a waterwheel (rota, מוכני) doing in the Temple courtyard? Wrong answers only

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · Mar 16

The beginning of Sophocles' Ajax in the Laurentianus Pluteus 32.2 (14th cent.), with annotations by Demetrius Triclinius. Originally in the Convent of San Marco, Florence, it was transferred to the Biblioteca Medicea around 1550 on the orders of Cosimo I. tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · Mar 14

OK, this is amazing

Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · Mar 10

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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James Tauber @jtauber.com · Mar 13

Not a great time to be looking for DH jobs but add me to the list of people looking for work. I’m also available for Python / Django development more generally.

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Lupus Alatus Latin @lupusalatus.bsky.social · Mar 12

I’m a small, independent, disabled content creator who put up her own designs yesterday! And you’re funding more Latin books for learners if you support me!