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Dictionaries of Scientific Vocabulary: Antiquity and Byzantine Period
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Abstract

During Antiquity and the Byzantine age, subject-oriented dictionaries devoted to specific scientific fields had different purposes and targets, in conformity with the usages and the specific needs at the time of their compilations. However, one of the commonest features of all these dictionaries is their close reference to literary texts. Mo…

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Stefano Valente, “Dictionaries of Scientific Vocabulary: Antiquity and Byzantine Period”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis. Consulted online on 30 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000105>
First published online: 2013



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