Popma's Monolingual Dictionary of Latin Synonyms
Abstract
This report presents the results of our project of digitizing a dictionary of Latin synonyms which was popular for three centuries from XVII to XIX; describes its history and the contributions of authors and editors, explains its pedagogical value for modern students of classical languages; and discusses technical questions of coding the transcript and preparing it for end-users. Keywords: Latin, synonyms, lexicon, medieval Latin, monolingual dictionary, De differentiis verborumCopyright of all material published in Lexikos will be vested in the Board of Directors of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. Authors are free, however, to use their material elsewhere provided that Lexikos (AFRILEX Series) is acknowledged as the original publication source.
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