so why'd I buy this book?

[aryanhwy]

Between Latham's Revised Medieval Latin Word-List and my classical Latin dictionary, I can find pretty much every word I need, or enough info to allow me to guess at the meaning of the new word I'm faced with. But because I like books and I like dictionaries and I wouldn't mind having something more comprehensive, I've been watching Bookfinder for reasonably-priced volumes of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources. Most of them seem to be running ~€100-€500, way more than I want to pay, but last spring I was able to get fascicule VII ("N") for around €25.

Since getting it, I came to the realization that there are very few words beginning with that I can't find in my usual sources. So, the book has been very patiently merely sitting on my desk. Until today, when I finally found a word beginning with that wasn't in my classical dictionary or in Latham's wordlist.

And you know what? It's not in the dictionary, either! All this time, waiting for a word to look up in the dictionary, I finally have one, and it's not there! No fair!

Of course, it's not like I can't deduce from context what numerica means, but still, it's the principle of the thing.