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Apr 30, 2022 · William Whitaker Words. It has been by far my favourite free online dictionary, rivalled only by Oxford's own website with its minimalistic design and expansive databases even taking into account archaic terms and vocabulary.
Whitaker’s Words is a morphological analyser and simple Latin-English dictionary made by William Whitaker in 1993–2007. It contains about 39,000 articles and can do several trick to recognize words with variate spelling or Medieval forms.
I decided to automate an elementary-level Latin vocabulary list. As a first stage, I produced a computer program that will analyze a Latin word and give the various possible interpretations (case, person, gender, tense, mood, etc.), within the limitations of its dictionary.
This program, WORDS, takes keyboard input or a file of Latin text lines and provides an analysis of each word individually. With the input of a word, or several words in a line, the program returns information about the possible accedience, if it can find an agreeable stem in its dictionary.
English is certainly a far richer language than Latin, measured by the number of individual words. WORDS has about 40_000 Latin entries, and the corresponding inversion to English yields only 22_000 unique English words.
William Whitaker developed his Latin dictionary early in the 1990s. About halfway through the decade, I developed a simple CGI script to look up Latin words and provide some grammar help.
Feb 11, 2023 · This is a cleaned-up version of the port of William Whitaker's WORDS programme, a Latin-English dictionary with inflectional morphology support; the original author passed away in 2010, so any and all help maintaining the software as development and execution environments evolve would be greatly appreciated.
