A propósito de un nuevo diccionario de latínIl Dizionario della Lingua Latina de Conte, Pianezzola y Ranucci (Firenze, 2000)

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Il Dizionario della Lingua Latina by G. ?. Conte, ?. Pianezzola and G. Ranucci (Firenze, 2000), an excellent Latin dictionary, aims at achieving three basic goals: firstly, showing the earliest appearances of the studied words, secondly quoting late testimonies for the different meanings (and in this way their subsistance is put forward), and finally letting know all the syntactical constructions in which the several meanings of the most important words can be found in the Latin corpus. Although the first and the third objective can be considered successfully reached, the authors seem to fail to do so when they deal with the second objective. Finally in spite of the effort to keep a coherent structure for the articles of the studied words, the result is something like an enumeration of the main meanings, with some notes on figurative uses, syntactical constructions, verb and adjectival complements and noun modification.