I learned Latin in high school but without going into too much detail about my age

Thanks in advance.
Josep M.
josepm.fontana wrote:Thanks to all who responded. I had in fact considered Cassell's but I was a little put off by the following review from Amazon:
You have to know Latin to use it,
October 23, 2005
By D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA)
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
I thought it was time to get a new Latin dictionary since I noticed the one I was using (a Dr Short's) was over a hundred years old and falling apart (getting to resemble its owner). I also thought a newer one would take cognizance of the fact that these days fewer people have studied Latin grammar , but this one still seems to assume that its users start off knowing Latin.
I tried it out on a line from Ovid's Metamorphoses that I happen to already know:
Pinus [the pine] nondum [not then] caesa [cut] suis[in its] montibus [mountains] descenderat [descended] in [into] undas [waves] liquidas [liquid] ut [in order to] viseret [see] peregrinum [the foreign] orbem [world]
Six important words (caesa, suis, montibus, descenderat, viseret, and orbem) are not found in this dictionary, and the only way a student could get to them would be by already knowing a lot of Latin and knowing that they are derived from the following listed words:
Caedo
Suus
Mons
Descendo
Orbis
Video
josepm.fontana wrote:Thanks to all who responded. I had in fact considered Cassell's but I was a little put off by the following review from Amazon:
You have to know Latin to use it,
October 23, 2005
By D. P. Birkett (Suffern, NY USA)
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
I thought it was time to get a new Latin dictionary since I noticed the one I was using (a Dr Short's) was over a hundred years old and falling apart (getting to resemble its owner). I also thought a newer one would take cognizance of the fact that these days fewer people have studied Latin grammar , but this one still seems to assume that its users start off knowing Latin.
I tried it out on a line from Ovid's Metamorphoses that I happen to already know:
Pinus [the pine] nondum [not then] caesa [cut] suis[in its] montibus [mountains] descenderat [descended] in [into] undas [waves] liquidas [liquid] ut [in order to] viseret [see] peregrinum [the foreign] orbem [world]
Six important words (caesa, suis, montibus, descenderat, viseret, and orbem) are not found in this dictionary, and the only way a student could get to them would be by already knowing a lot of Latin and knowing that they are derived from the following listed words:
Caedo
Suus
Mons
Descendo
Orbis
Video
mingshey wrote:Diogenes seems to contain the Oxford Latin Dictionary as well as Liddell & Scott.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/
paulusnb wrote:I like WORDS. It is on my flashdrive. I think this is the link. http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm It has more entries than my book dictionaries.
mingshey wrote:Diogenes seems to contain the Oxford Latin Dictionary as well as Liddell & Scott.
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/
benissimus wrote:mingshey wrote:Diogenes seems to contain the Oxford Latin Dictionary as well as Liddell & Scott.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/
The OLD is still under copyright, no?
mingshey wrote:Diogenes
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