🥁 And the winner is … 🥁 💤 rhonchissator 💤 Das Lateinwort des Jahres 2025 bezeichnet eine schnarchende Person. An der Wahl, die der Thesaurus linguae Latinae organisiert, haben sich 1.374 Lateinfans aus aller Welt beteiligt. parerga.hypotheses.org/4320 @thesaurosaur.bsky.social

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Lärm, Schnarcher, Knurren... Was wird 2025 das LATEINWORT DES JAHRES? Bis zum 14. Dezember können alle Lateinbegeisterten über das lateinische Wort des Jahres abstimmen. Mehr dazu und Abstimmung: badw.de/die-akademie...

A quick warning, in case there's anyone like me with dual citizenship planning to get an ETA to travel to Britain. They don't seem to allow that. Here's what the government website (www.gov.uk/eta/when-not...) says:

Prof. Eleanor Dickey was interviewed by @thesaurosaur.bsky.social about Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek for the TLL Podcast. Check it out below: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-yqpx8...

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae podcasts are mostly about Latin words, and mostly in English. But the latest episode is in German, an interview by Swaantje Otto with Marcus Deufert, mostly about the TLL, but also a little about his work on a new edition of Roman comic fragments: tllpod.podbean.com

The Thesaurus linguae Latinae has a very intermittent podcast (including a talk by me on "pharus"). The latest entry is by Charles McNamara on "proficio": tllpod.podbean.com

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

In recent months, a significant amount of time has been devoted to our database of employees of the MGH since their founding in 1819. We are currently focused on documenting the genesis of our editions. All MGH editors will be included shortly. Have a look! data.mgh.de/databases/mg...

📢 New SCS Blog Post Kathleen Coleman, "Biographies of Latin via the endangered TLL Fellowship" A vital resource for the SCS under threat. Please read!

#Video - Aus unserer Mediathek: Der Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) ist das maßgebliche #Wörterbuch des antiken Lateins. So wird dort gearbeitet: #Latein #Lexikon #Grundlagenforschung #Akademienprogramm

Gerade findet in der BAdW die internationale TLL Summer School in Latin Lexicography statt, mit Forschenden in verschiedenen Karrierestufen, deren Arbeit sich mit dem lateinischen Wortschatz der #Antike befasst: thesaurus.badw.de/summerschool... Fotos: @wolf-bild.bsky.social / BAdW #Latein

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Call for Papers 2025/26 digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp #DigiClass #DigitalHumanities #AncientSky

Call for Papers: Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave approaches and beyond Taking place at the University of Cambridge 26-28 March 2026! Abstract submission deadline on September 15th. Full call and further information at svalconference.wordpress.com

www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... Out now! Special collection of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, ed. by Ezra la Roi and Dalia Pratali Maffei. 🥳 My article on lexical variation between epistula and litterae in the Ciceronian correspondence is available open access 😃

🎶Ein besonderer Flügel an der LMU: Gebaut von Beethovens Freundin Nanette Streicher, klingt er wie ein ganzes Orchester. Musikwiss. Hartmut Schick spricht mit @lmumuenchen.bsky.social über seine Bedeutung. Prof. Schick leitet das BAdW-Projekt "Richard-Strauss-Gesamtausgabe" tinyurl.com/5n8hptx6

New TLL podcast episode with the talented Sólveig Hilmarsdottir on the complexities of Latin FEMVR! tllpod.podbean.com/e/femvr-solv...

Now we see if any American tabloid can match the Bild headline, when Ratzinger was made pope: "Wir sind Papst!"

New pope selection coming. I'm rembering a lunch conversation with Catholic colleagues when Cardinal Ratzinger was chosen. This was Munich, and they had strong opinions about him. I said, "There must be something good you can say." Brief, gloomy pause. "He's very old."

Oddly, I thought I had the first of those settings on already, but when I checked, it was off. Could the choice have got lost in some update?

Haiku/hexameter Vere fugante nives niveus decor additur horto.

A riddle from 1994 (but the answer hasn't changed). I'll post the answer later if nobody guesses. tempus edax rerum? sed et est, qui tempora mandat. legibus hic versis post mortem vivit egetque lustra per omnia adhuc vita, dum crescit in aevum.

Come work on Latin words with us this summer! Applications due on February 28 Now with a cooler poster 😊

1/3 It is no wonder, said the old wise men Who from Troy’s walls watched Helen walking by, If for her beauty we endure such pain. What are our ills to one glance from her eye?

Another stretch of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (nemo-netura, which came out in print in 2022) is now available in our open access version: publikationen.badw.de/de/thesaurus... Highlights include "nemo" and "nempe" by @jschrickx.bsky.social, "neque" by me and "nescio" by Roberta Marchionni.

Come hear me yak about the TLL in all its digital glory on Wednesday in Leipzig! An impressive Digital Classics line-up thanks to MECANO and @monica-berti.bsky.social

A new fascicle in the open access version of the Thesaurus linguae latinae: thesaurus.badw.de/tll-digital/... That brings us up from "renuo" to the start of "repressio". The print version (always a few years ahead) currently reaches to "resurgo".

#Stellenausschreibung: Die BAdW sucht für das Projekt „Neue Potenziale für die digitale Lexikographie des Deutschen“ zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n DataScience-Manager/in „Digitale Lexikographie des Deutschen“ (m/w/d): stelle.pro/jobposting/4... #Stellenangebot

Our neighbour, the Marstall: regius hic equiti munitur circus equoque ut recte ille iubere hic iussa capessere discat The royal riding school here stands For rider and for steed, That one can learn to give commands, The other learn to heed.

Incidentally, since @degruyterbrill.bsky.social are on Bluesky, they might consider making their share button include that option as well as link unfriendly Twitter.

The Prague editors got last year's Latin linguistics colloquium out in record time: www.degruyter.com/document/doi... My paper, "Continuations by others", a feature of dialogue in Plautus and Terence, is the most interesting subject I've worked on.

Vote on the TLL Latin Word of the Year 2024! Until Dec. 19. The five finalists were published this year in the TLL and don't appear in another standard dictionary of ancient Latin. ⭐️reteiaclor ⭐️retotatototato ⭐️retroactim⭐️revaleo⭐️revolumen parerga.hypotheses.org/3516

Summer School: Thesaurus linguae Latinae thesaurus.badw.de/en/summer-sc...

Same fascicle, different photo, from our chief editor.

Almost out of the re- compounds. The latest Thesaurus part reached us yesterday.

A curious bit of 18th century detail in Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean here. It's Horace Odes 3,2,1, but with 'amici', favoured by Bentley, instead of 'amice', printed in most modern editions.

Runs to library to check we have Roman Military Diplomas V

Interesting to see my employer, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, withdrawing from Twitter.

Is one of these is the original and the other a copy?

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship, supported by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, allows an American scholar to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Institute in Munich. Apply by December 1, 2024. classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

Not sure if Bluesky has many people interested in classical content yet, but I wanted to note that the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae has a podcast with discussions of various Latin words: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... It hadn't been very active for a while, but there are several new episodes now.