Comparison of Ancient Greek dictionaries

The following tables compare Ancient Greek dictionaries, in any language.

Main lexicographical works

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	source citations	volumes	Translation language	Period covered	Notes
Thesaurus Graecae Linguae	Henri Estienne	1572						5	French
Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch	Johann Gottlob Schneider	1797							German
Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache	Franz Passow	1819	4th	1831					German
A Greek–English Lexicon	Liddell, Scott, Jones, McKenzie	1843	9th	1940 (9th edition), 1996 (supplement)	2,042, plus 320 pages of the 1996 supplement	116,502			English	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE
Vocabolario greco-italiano	Lorenzo Rocci	1939	3rd	1943	2,074	150,000		1	Italian
Dictionnaire grec-français	Anatole Bailly	1895	26th	1963	2,230			1	French
Diccionario Griego-Español	Spanish National Research Council	1980		2019^[1]	1,953 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις, vol.VIII)			8 (up to ἐπισκήνωσις)^[2]	Spanish	Mycenaean - 6th c. CE	In progress, up to ἐπισκήνωσις.
GI - Vocabolario della lingua greca	Franco Montanari	1995	3rd	2013	2,400	140,000		1	Italian	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE
Cambridge Greek Lexicon	James Diggle et al., Cambridge University Press	2021^[3]			1,500 approx	37,000+^[4]		2	English	8th c. BCE – 2nd c. CE (up to Plutarch)
A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect	Richard John Cunliffe	1924	3	2012	427, plus 64 supplemental	9809	>46,900	1	English	Homeric

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	source citations	volumes	Translation language	Period covered	Notes
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek	Franco Montanari, Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder	2015			2,431	140,000		1	English	8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE	Translation from the Italian 3rd edition.

Title	Publisher/author	First published	Latest edition	Year	Pages	Entries (approx.)	source citations	volumes	Translation language	Period covered	Notes
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque	Pierre Chantraine	1968		1980	1,436+ 78pp. supplement			4 (in a single vol. in 2009)	French
Etymological Dictionary of Greek	Robert Beekes	2009			1,808+ 64pp. introduction	7,500		2	English

Panagiotis Filos (2018) The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (review) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Pauline Hire The Cambridge New Greek Lexicon Project in The Classical World Vol. 98, No. 2 (Winter, 2005), pp. 179-185
Cambridge Greek Lexicon (2021), official project webpage
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon: An Interview with Prof. James Diggle, Oct 28, 2019