Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary [Paperback]

Teach Yourself Publishing (Author), Alastair Wilson (Author), A. Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 1965 | ISBN-10: 0844238120 | ISBN-13: 978-0844238128

For all students Comprehensive and easy to use, this dictionary contains extensive Latin-English and English-Latin vocabularies of more than 20,000 words. Also includes a useful summary of the essentials of Latin grammar. Perfect for students and teachers alike.

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Text: English, Latin

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (January 11, 1965)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844238120
• ISBN-13: 978-0844238128
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,071,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best portable Latin reference, August 9, 2001

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Damon Navas-Howard (Santa Rosa, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary (Paperback)

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.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Source, June 5, 2000

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Jeff Connelly - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good standard dictionary, July 11, 2001

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Spacelord "Traditionalist" (Wright City, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary (Paperback)

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.