Short Dictionary of Classical Word Origins

This dictionary embraces the lexicographical field of words, phrases, and allusions that stem from classical sources or in some historical, literary, scientific, semantic, or philosophical implication are associated with classical culture.

Published 1957.

Binding of book is slightly intact. Missing dust jacket. Sunned covers with moderate foxing and some shelfwear. Fraying and tearing on edges of cover. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pencil and moderate foxing on endpapers. Wormholes on board and endpaper of back cover. Heavy foxing and few stains on certain pages.