Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch


Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch is a project for the edition of a comprehensive Medieval Latin dictionary, organised by a committee of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and published with C. H. Beck.
The plan for a dictionary replacing Du Cange's Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis originates with the Union Académique Internationale, which established a Comité du dictionnaire du Latin médiéval in 1919. A collaboration of French and German academies was planned in 1939, but interrupted by the Second World War. Seventeen fascicles for MLW were published during 1959–1976, but work was delayed, and the second volume was completed only in 1999. The third volume was completed in 2007, and the fourth volume is close to completion as of 2016.