[B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum

Vasile Stancu stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Mon Dec 8 22:38:12 EST 2008


Ironically, "Greek" in that expression seems to have, at least partially, a
conotation of "Barbarian". Hmmm :--)

I cannot say how useful that is, but it is made by me (a novice) for myself
(the same novice). At the stage where I am now, such references with sample
phrases/expressions would be at least an appropriate appendix to the
existing dictionaries/lexicons.

 

Vasile

 

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From: George F Somsel [mailto:gfsomsel at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:47 AM
To: Vasile Stancu; Webb Mealy; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum

 

I think I wish that it was all Greek to me.  Then I might have a chance of
understanding it.  :-)  

 

Seriously, I can't say a thing regarding it.  Hopefully it's useful.
 

george
gfsomsel 

 

. search for truth, hear truth, 
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.

 

- Jan Hus
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From: Vasile Stancu <stancu at mail.dnttm.ro>
To: Webb Mealy <webb at selftest.net>; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 8:30:42 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum

I think I have an alternative; here is just an example of one entry:
http://greaca-veche.xhost.ro/LNT-Test.htm
What do you think? The definitions are in Romanian, but this is not really a
problem, since, I believe, the collection of references is more important
than the definition - whatever the language. If one is interested in a
certain word, it is worth just reading the references, one after another,
and thus a comprehensive image would forge itself into the multiple facets
it may possess.

Vasile STANCU

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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Webb Mealy
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:17 AM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [B-Greek] English-Greek Dictionary--Desideratum

An English-Koine dictionary--or perhaps, for NT scholars, an intelligent
annotated index to BAGD--would be worth its weight in gold. Does anyone have
a better system for English-Greek reference than putting english words into
the LSJ index  on Perseus?

There are many times when, in order to form a confident sense of what the
person was trying to say, I needed to gain a sense of what other vocabulary
choices they had available to them for expressing something similar. 

Anybody else think this is a good idea? I suppose the risk is that an
English definition word index to BAGD, for the purposes described, would be
too patchy--leaving out important synonyms that by chance didn't happen to
make it into BAGD because they didn't appear in the NT and early Christian
lit. I'd still buy it though!

Webb Mealy

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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl Conrad
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:44 AM
To: Leonard Isaksson
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Woodhouse English-Greek Dictionary, from Samizdate
express


On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Leonard Isaksson wrote:

> It seems to me like I recall someone(s) here asking about where to  
> find
> this book.  I came across this while looking for something else.  In
> case that someone is still looking, I thought I would link this.
>
> It is a CD of the book which was made to have a searchable feature,  
> the
> fellow explains that.
>
> Leonard Isaksson
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Leonard Isaksson <leonard.i at cheqnet.net>
>> Date: December 6, 2008 9:25:14 AM CST
>> To: 'Leonard Isaksson' <leonardo1orchardcity at mac.com>
>> Subject: Woodhouse English-Greek Dictionary, <i>created 5/6/2007</i>
>>
>> <http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/woodhouse.html>

This is a fine and important book, but its title is actually, "English- 
Greek Dictionary A Vocabulary of the Attic Language." It usefulness to  
those whose interest is primarily in GNT is questionable; I remember  
finding it invaluable when doing Greek composition in graduate school  
half a century ago (the work is dated 1907).

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)



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