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Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language

by Francis Edward Jackson Valpy (Author)

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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1828 published in London.

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1402173849
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978-1402173844
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Adamant Media Corporation
Publication date

November 30, 2005
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English
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5.25 x 1.27 x 8.25 inches
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562 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Adamant Media Corporation (November 30, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 562 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1402173849
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1402173844
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.63 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.27 x 8.25 inches

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Kooky and fun, this way out-of-date book is from a corner ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2015

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Kooky and fun, this way out-of-date book is from a corner of the 1800s when some believed that Latin came from Greek, literally.

We now know that Latin and Greek both came from Proto-Indo-European.

But this inexpensive volume covers a great wealth of Latin vocabulary in an interesting way, and draws all sorts of interesting polyglot comparisons with Greek. I thought it was something more modern and less bizaare, but for the price I do recommend it to the discerning customer, amateur, and scholar. It's good to have something like this around to strike the resonating gong of humility in our hearts and cause us to pause and consider our own age's best efforts at not only the truth, but also what is important in life, worth doing and worth studying.

Such is the wealth afforded to us often by works now much-aged and inexpensive if even in print at all.

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Stan De Loach, Ph.D.

get out the magnifying glass!

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2013

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The book appears to be a photocopy of a much older book. Either the original was pretty illegible or the photocopy is, but in any case, a great number of the letters are not intelligible. If you know the words, it's not so bad. If not, it can be difficult to determine whether the word contains A or E or U or O, because, along with the consonants, the full letter does not always appear so you have to estimate. It was cheap, so I consider it worthwhile, but for those with no previous knowledge of Latin, not very useful.

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Jerry Easley

Kindle version is unusable

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021

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The Kindle version of this book is unusable; there is no way to navigate to a word of interest; you must do a text search on the whole text then page through hundreds of hits to get what you want. I have NEVER been successful in getting to the information I’m interested in. Even though it’s free, I would not waste my time with it. The print version might be ok; I just don’t know.

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2010

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Haven't used it too much yet, but as I do have a fascination for dictionaries, mostly about ethymological ones, I am certainly going to, very soon. It is a fac-simile of the 1828 one, and although the language has its XIX century peculiarities, it is not a big an effort to read it.

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2010

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This book is a xerox copy of a very old tome that came before the days when they knew how the Indo-European languages were related. The core assumption of this book is WRONG, that is, that Latin springs from Greek. We all know now that Greek and Latin are cousin languages which both sprang from Indo-European. This book, besides this major misconception, is riddled with errors. Nonetheless, it's a useful work and a fun read for word nerds.

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Melia

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Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2006

In this etymological dictionary, Valpy attempts and successfully manages to represent the Latin language as a language mainly developed from Ancient Greek, a development of which its beginning is lost in time and reached its peak at the time of Augustus, when Latin language borrowed more than 10,000 words from Greek.

In addition, it justifies what many famous Latins and Greeks - Dionysius Alicarnaseus, Quintilianus, Varro, Claudius Didymus, Philoxenus Alexandreus, Terentianus Maurus etc, - have already confirmed a couple of millennia earlier, that the majority of the Latin language derives from Greek and especially from the Aeolic dialect.

Although this etymological dictionary doesn't cover the total of Latin language, purposely leaving out many words like names of men, places and technical words, because as the author states, they are easy to find in other attested works, it does cover a huge amount of the Latin language.

Valpy's etymologies even if not fully detailed are attested and methodically scientific; he is tracing the Latin word back to its Greek etymon, and leaving it there, since as he states: "...then becomes the province of the Greek Etymologist to trace it further back into Greek..." Besides, his etymologies have been historically supported since the decipherment of the Linear B inscriptions by Michael Ventris in 1953, which took the Greek language back in time for at least 6 centuries (15th cent BCE), making Linear B a powerful tool at the hands of modern etymologists, a tool that Valpy couldn't have.

The reader must consider here that this dictionary doesn't trace the words back to the hypothetical IE words and bases that many modern Indoeuropeanists vastly use in their etymologies nowadays, since that approach has only been used in modern etymologies for a few decades and this dictionary was written long before that. However, that is not necessarily a waste, simply because etymology by definition traces a word back to its etymon, and, as more and more etymologists are starting to recognize, a reconstructed hypothetical word or base while it has great value in the study of comparative linguistics, is far away from being considered as an etymon.

One possible snag with the book is that an average reader will not only need some knowledge of Latin but also must be able to at least read Greek, in order to follow the Latin words to their Greek etyma.

This is a dictionary that must have its place in the library of a student of Latin language and/or anyone who is interested in the science of etymology.

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Melia

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2006

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In this etymological dictionary, Valpy attempts and successfully manages to represent the Latin language as a language mainly developed from Ancient Greek, a development of which its beginning is lost in time and reached its peak at the time of Augustus, when Latin language borrowed more than 10,000 words from Greek.

In addition, it justifies what many famous Latins and Greeks - Dionysius Alicarnaseus, Quintilianus, Varro, Claudius Didymus, Philoxenus Alexandreus, Terentianus Maurus etc, - have already confirmed a couple of millennia earlier, that the majority of the Latin language derives from Greek and especially from the Aeolic dialect.

Although this etymological dictionary doesn't cover the total of Latin language, purposely leaving out many words like names of men, places and technical words, because as the author states, they are easy to find in other attested works, it does cover a huge amount of the Latin language.

Valpy's etymologies even if not fully detailed are attested and methodically scientific; he is tracing the Latin word back to its Greek etymon, and leaving it there, since as he states: "...then becomes the province of the Greek Etymologist to trace it further back into Greek..." Besides, his etymologies have been historically supported since the decipherment of the Linear B inscriptions by Michael Ventris in 1953, which took the Greek language back in time for at least 6 centuries (15th cent BCE), making Linear B a powerful tool at the hands of modern etymologists, a tool that Valpy couldn't have.

The reader must consider here that this dictionary doesn't trace the words back to the hypothetical IE words and bases that many modern Indoeuropeanists vastly use in their etymologies nowadays, since that approach has only been used in modern etymologies for a few decades and this dictionary was written long before that. However, that is not necessarily a waste, simply because etymology by definition traces a word back to its etymon, and, as more and more etymologists are starting to recognize, a reconstructed hypothetical word or base while it has great value in the study of comparative linguistics, is far away from being considered as an etymon.

One possible snag with the book is that an average reader will not only need some knowledge of Latin but also must be able to at least read Greek, in order to follow the Latin words to their Greek etyma.

This is a dictionary that must have its place in the library of a student of Latin language and/or anyone who is interested in the science of etymology.

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Vince

I could not be happier with my copy of the book

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2016

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I could not be happier with my copy of the book. It arrived promptly and in perfect condition. A great addition to the library of anyone interested in Classics.