Episodes

Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Richard Rush (Thesaurus linguae Latinae) discusses the ethnonym Afri, -orum "Africans" and related sublemmata.
To consult the TLL article Afri, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
https://tll-open.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#3753

Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Thursday Dec 04, 2025
Adam Trettel (Thesaurus linguae Latinae) discusses the word pax and its author, Ursula Keudel.
To consult the TLL article 1. pax, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
https://tll-open.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#65967

Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Richard Rush (SCS Fellow at the TLL) discusses the coinage of the word nocturnalis, its relationship to nocturnus, and popularity among a group of late antique Gallic authors.
The article nocturnus will be published soon in the TLL.

Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Swaantje Otto (TLL Fellow) interviews Dr. Massimo Cè (University of Basel and former TLL Fellow) about his current research, pedagogy on Latin lexicography, and the relevance of the TLL.

Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Adam Gitner (TLL Lexicographer) interviews Prof. Eleanor Dickey (Reading) about her recent book Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek: A Lexicon and Analysis. Several Latin words are discussed, including auricaesor 'gold-beater' and dominus 'master' as a form of address.

Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Swaantje Otto (TLL Fellow) interviews Prof. Marcus Deufert during his visit to the 2025 Latin Lexicography Summer School. They discuss his DFG Project Poetarum Comicorum Romanorum Fragmenta and the value of the TLL as a reference work.

Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Thursday Sep 04, 2025
Charles McNamara (Univ. of Minnesota) makes progress with the verb proficio 'to progress'.
To consult the TLL article proficio, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
https://tll-open.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#73757

Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
Sólveig Hilmarsdottir (Cambridge University) discusses the complex paradigm of femur (gen. feminis or femoris?), its historical origin, and surprising variation in Latin texts.
To consult the TLL article femur, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
https://tll-open.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#42087

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Prof. Kathleen Coleman (Harvard) presents the word negotiator and takes us on a tour of their adventurous and wide-ranging activities around the Roman world, including ancient London.
To consult the TLL article negotiator, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
publikationen.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#92909

Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Tuesday Oct 29, 2024
Prof. Catherine Steel (Glasgow) discusses Cicero's use of the verb obrepo in the Pro Plancio and elsewhere as well as its intertextual resonance within the politics of the Late Republic.
To consult the TLL article obrepo, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
publikationen.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#61631

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Podcast
The podcast presents short descriptions of Latin words and related matters arising from work on the most comprehensive dictionary of Latin:
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