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This dictionary covers the Latin vocabulary of the Latin III course: the words of Cloelia, puella Rōmāna and of the Discordiae Cīvīlēs chapter, together with the vocabulary carried forward from Latin I and II. Where a word appears on the DCC Latin Core list — the thousand commonest words in Latin literature — its rank there is shown, because that, rather than how often it happens to occur in our own texts, is what tells you how much a word is worth knowing. Every definition in it was written from scratch against the texts themselves: an entry leads with one core meaning and then adds only the senses that actually occur in these passages.
Grammatical terms are printed like this, and the ones that are links will open the matching entry in the digital Pharr grammar appendix.
No dictionary text is reproduced in these entries. But the judgment behind many of them was informed by the standard lexica, and that debt is real enough to state plainly:
It is deliberately stricter than a general lexicon about live metaphor. When a poet is using a word figuratively, the aim here is to leave the figure standing so that the reader meets it, rather than flattening it into a tidy gloss — a cloud heavy with rain is a cloud pregnant with rain, and the student should get to see that. So a meaning the older dictionaries record is sometimes one this dictionary has declined to give. Where that happens it is a choice, not an oversight.