TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis

Latin lexicography for your ear: short descriptions of long-lived Latin words.

Episodes

22 hours ago

7 min

Prof. Kathleen Coleman (Harvard) celebrates the completion of R with an episode on rana 'frog'.
To consult the TLL article 1. pax, please copy and paste the following into your browser:
https://tll-open.badw.de/de/thesaurus/lemmata#91604

22 hours ago

7 min

Jul 9, 2026

8 min

Prof. Gesine Manuwald (University College London) introduces the archaic adverb topper 'quickly, perhaps', which hasn't yet appeared in the Thesaurus linguae Latinae.

Jul 9, 2026

8 min

Feb 4, 2026

18 min

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

Feb 4, 2026

18 min

Dec 4, 2025

23 min

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

Dec 4, 2025

23 min

Nov 26, 2025

12 min

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.

Nov 26, 2025

12 min

Oct 16, 2025

10 min

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.

Oct 16, 2025

10 min

Sep 25, 2025

26 min

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.

Sep 25, 2025

26 min

Sep 10, 2025

14 min

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.

Sep 10, 2025

14 min

Sep 4, 2025

15 min

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

Sep 4, 2025

15 min

May 22, 2025

8 min

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

May 22, 2025

8 min

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