English Greek Lexicon Fradersdorff

English Greek Lexicon Fradersdorff

Author: J. W. Fradersdorff

Year: 1860

Please download and store this to preserve it for posterity. This is J. W. Frädersdorff's English-Greek dictionary, 2nd edition, as published in 1860. This fully OCR'd and searchable English-Greek dictionary is a translation, adaptation, and arrangement of the entire materials of Dr. Rost’s Deutsch-Griechisches Wörterbuch of 1818. Despite being criticized upon publication this work includes such merits as copious examples of idiomatic usage which promotes discerning apprehension of Greek prose, wide-ranging vocabulary that (upon concordancing) demonstrates deep parallels between Greek and English, and an ample yet not ponderous size. (The Oxford English Dictionary will demystify arcane and obsolete entries.) It makes a fine complement to the more scholastic English-Greek dictionary of C. D. Yonge, a work meant for schoolboys that nevertheless offers the reader of Greek poetry especial insight. Taken together, the Frädersdorff and Yonge dictionaries serve to enlarge understanding of the semantic content of Greek beyond that which can be gleaned from more modern works alone, i.e. the work of Liddell-Scott-Jones and of the Perseus Project. They do so because, despite the authors worki