Product Description

The Oxford Paperback Greek Dictionary covers over 40,000 words and phrases, providing up-to-date coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary Greek and English, in a clear and accessible form. Idiomatic phrases illustrate words in use, and there are full explanations of terms for which cultural differences prevent an exact translation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148603 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

About the Author
Niki Watts is a highly experienced bilingual lexicographer and translator; she is a Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics, a member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, and Membre de la Société Francais des Traducteurs.

Customer Reviews

OK as a listing of vocabulary but....
The typeface is too small for the beginner to correctly identify SOME greek lower case alphabet letters. It is certainly comprehensive but there are some limits to what can be put into a "Pocket" format and this volume exceeds these by a clear margin. It would be far more convenient in use if the font size were cranked up a bit and some more pages added.

Also the promise of "grammatical structures" is scantly addressed.

Altogether it is a very good reference work but get a good pair of reading glasses and don't try to use it in a darkened taverna!

excellent, easy, comprehensive reference
I teach English and Greek privately in Greece to both children and adults and find this dictionary to be the best of its kind for comprehensive entries and references in both languages and full indication of the uses,idiomatic, metaphorical and normal. It is also extremely useful in that it includes terms in katharevousa which is great for those of us who do complicated translation work and who like to read literature from an earlier period.