Which dictionary, or resource, is best at documenting when Latin words were first coined or first used or first observed? I mean classical and medieval and renaissance words, especially “technological” words, or words that are obviously more recent coinages, or more recent usages.
When I look up words in Lewis & Short, I often suspect that the words have an origin in time that is very late, but I cannot tell this directly from the dictionary entry. I’m also curious to know who coined the word or first used it, as best can be determined.
The Oxford English Dictionary is fantastic for this purpose, but only for English words, not for Latin words.
The Oxford Latin Dictionary is a much better dictionary than Lewis and Short, and is organized on the same principles as the Oxford English Dictionary. But it hardly goes beyond the 2nd century. The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a massive work of collaborative scholarship still not complete, goes up to the 7th century, and most of its volumes are now available as pdfs.
And there are dictionaries of medieval Latin, pioneered by Du Cange in the 17th century.
Cicero was good at coining Latin equivalents of Greek technical words.
Are there any dictionaries that specialize in the Latin of the renaissance or later? If not, I wonder if there any dictionaries of technical terms or maybe philosophical terms, perhaps not specifically dedicated to Latin or Greek but still have good etymological info.