The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek[1] (
Greek: Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual
dictionary of
Modern Greek published by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation)[2] (named after
Manolis Triantafyllidis), at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998. It is also called the University of Thessaloniki Dictionary,[3] and is known to the public as Triantafyllidis Dictionary (Λεξικό Τριανταφυλλίδη).
The project was launched in 1968. Its board of directors[4] has included prominent Greek philologists. Responsible for the etymologies was Evangelos Petrounias (Ευάγγελος Πετρούνιας 1935-2016).[5]
Currently, the dictionary is hosted online, and is maintained by Scholarly Supervisor: D. Koutsogiannis, an Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
^Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek (official translation of the title at
greek-language.gr portal). Literal translation: Dictionary of Common Neohellenic.
^ins.web.auth.gr Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation) retr:2018.07.19.
^Assimakis Tseronis, Anna Iordanidou, "Modern Greek Dictionaries and the Ideology of Standardization", in Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Michael Silk, Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present, 2009,
p. 167.
^Prologue (in Greek)Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek at www.greek-language.gr retr:2018.07.19. Etymologies in the Dictionary by Evangelos Petrounias (
Ευάγγελος Πετρούνιας), assisted since 1991 by Giorgos Papanastasiou (Γιώργος Παπαναστασίου).