On the second floor of an old Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany, there's a library with high ceilings, a distinctly bookish smell and one of the world's most extensive collections of Latin texts.

A monumental dictionary of medieval British Latin has been completed after a century of research and drafting, in a project that spanned the careers of three editors and a small army of contributors.

It's called the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. And it's considered "the most authoritative dictionary of ancient Latin." Researchers in Germany have spent the last 125 years working on the project. By ...

The final part of an epic dictionary of medieval Latin is to be published this week, bringing to a close a project initiated 100 years ago. The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources has ...

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