Dictionaries, Glossaries and Phrase Books For Contemporary Latin
- 1990. Latin for All Occasions, a book by Henry Beard, attempts to find Latin equivalents for contemporary catchphrases.
- 1992–7. Neues Latein Lexicon / Lexicon recentis Latinitatis by Karl Egger, containing more than 15,000 words for contemporary everyday life.
- 1998. Imaginum vocabularium Latinum by Sigrid Albert.
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