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Its current editor, richard Ashdowne, reflects on bringing a hundred years of research to a close.  \nWhen I joined the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from  \nBritish Sources (DMLBS) team as an assistant editor  \nin 2008, it soon became clear to me that this was no ordinary research project. On my desk I found a box of slips of paper containing medieval Latin quotations, about 2,500 in number, for words sorted alphabetically starting at Scap- and running through to Scip- . There was also a pencil and a pile of further slips of paper, blank for me to complete. On the shelves around the single crowded room under the eaves ofthe Clarendon Building in the Bodleian Library in Oxford were many hundreds of books and hundreds more such boxes. I was joining the team of four existing assistant editors who, together with the then editor, David Howlett, one editorial assistant, and the consultant editor, Peter Glare, were hard at work on the final stages of publication of the twelfth fascicule (part) of this little-known work (covering Pos-to Pro-), while also preparing draft entries for words beginning with S. That box of slips replete with their seemingly indecipherable handwriting and cryptic abbreviations was the first of many to pass over my desk in the final five years of the DMLBS project, and it gave me a sense of the history and scale of this long-standing enterprise – which had begun with a proposal to the British Academy in 1913 for the preparation of a new dictionary of medieval Latin.  \nLatin in medieval Britain  \nTo understand the need for such a dictionary, it is necessary first to look back to the middle ages and the complex linguistic situation of Europe atthe time. Though not a native language for its users, Latin was nevertheless one of the most important languages of the middle ages across almost the whole of Europe, coexisting with the  \nmany local everyday native vernacular languages. Its significance derives from the great geographical and chronological extent of its use, and especially from the breadth and importance of the functions for which it was employed. This was particularly the case in the British Isles, where it coexisted with languages that included English, Welsh, and (after the Norman Conquest) French, from the end of the Roman empire down to the end of the Tudor period and beyond. It was used in Britain, as it was elsewhere, for a wide range of functions, varying over time, with surviving texts from the entire period infields as diverse as accountancy and zoology, astronomy and liturgy, literature and law.  \nThe linguistic effect of this diversity was felt especially (though not only) in the vocabulary of medieval Latin. The position of medieval Latin as a non-native language and its resulting inherent ‘contact’ with the otherlanguages of its users, together with the diverse and changing world of culture, trade, and knowledge during the long period of its use across Europe, led its users to expand the available vocabulary in various ways so that they could express the meanings they wanted when the existing Latin vocabulary was (or seemed) insufficient. Thus, new meanings were developed for inherited words, sometimes in replacement for the earlier meaning(s), more often as additional possibilities (such as the specific ecclesiastical sense ‘tonsure’ for tonsura ‘haircut’) . New words were coined using the usual processes of derivation in the language (e.g. the creation of new verbs from nouns by the addition of conjugation endings to the nouns’ stems, such as ventosare ‘treat by cupping’ from late Latin ventosa ‘cupping-glass’) . Finally, the language users’ vernacular languages might supply vocabulary that was simply ‘borrowed’ (i.e. taken over, with any necess","cbCaicEnWKZbUyU9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicEnWKZbUyU9","pdf",417783,"English","# The dictionary completed\n## The final fascicule and its significance\n# Latin in medieval Britain\n## Linguistic context and Latin’s function\n## Vocabulary change through contact and borrowing\n# The 1913 proposal\n## Scholarly lexicography and institutional interest","[{\"question\":\"What does December 2013 signify in the document?\",\"answer\":\"It marks the publication of the final fascicule (part) of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.\"},{\"question\":\"Why was a new dictionary of medieval Latin considered necessary?\",\"answer\":\"Because medieval Latin’s vocabulary diverged from classical expectations due to contact with local vernaculars and evolving cultural, trade, and knowledge needs across Europe.\"},{\"question\":\"How were dictionary entries prepared during the project?\",\"answer\":\"Assistant editors worked from thousands of medieval Latin quotation slips sorted alphabetically, along with blank slips used to complete draft entries.\"}]","Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources | PDF",1790629286,12]