www.latin-dictionary.net Open in urlscan Pro
162.144.252.248  Public Scan

Form analysis
1 forms found in the DOM

POST https://www.latin-dictionary.net/search

<form method="post" action="https://www.latin-dictionary.net/search" id="search-frontpage">
  <input type="text" name="term" id="term" placeholder="How do you want to do this?">
  <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Search">
  <div id="languages">
    <div class="radio-row clearfix radio-row-active nice-radio nice-radio-active-active">
      <input type="radio" name="language" id="radio-language-latin" value="latin" class="niceFormWidget nice-hidden" checked="checked"><span class="nice-radio nice-radio-active nice-radio-active-active"></span> <label for="radio-language-latin">Latin
        to English</label>
    </div>
    <div class="radio-row clearfix">
      <input type="radio" name="language" id="radio-language-english" value="english" class="niceFormWidget nice-hidden"><span class="nice-radio"></span> <label for="radio-language-english">English to Latin</label>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="search-autocomplete clearfix"></div>
</form>

Text Content

menu


LATDICT LATIN DICTIONARY


MY ACCOUNT

Login Register

why register?

 * Home
 * Search
 * Word List
 * Grammar
 * Why Latin?
 * About


FIND YOUR DEFINITION HERE.

Latin to English
English to Latin





SITE REVAMP IN THE WORKS (YES, REALLY)

UPDATE (7/1/2019)

Salvete, everyone! Progress has been ongoing on two out of the three following
features I had listed out in a prior update:

 * To search more intelligently for variations of Latin words, not just search
   for matches against their dictionary forms.
 * To provide full declension/conjugation tables for word entries and search
   results.



Essentially, we are writing a parser/assembler from scratch, which is
painstaking. While Latin is considered a very academically rigid language, the
fact remains that it still has several irregularities, plus a language that
persists across millennia has a habit of changing, and we wanted to write our
parser/assembler to account for some of the major deviations (like providing
optional old poetic variations of declension endings). Like the website itself,
the parser/assembler will be open-sourced to the public. It's intentionally been
created as a self-contained component to keep it decoupled from the website.

So, I addressed "two out of three" of the features in the works. The third
feature is: Adding tools, quizzes and games to the learning resources section.
This has taken a back seat until the other two features are better hooked in
with the parser/assembler. But it's certainly next on the road map!

Finally, I want to apologize for the slow responses to emails I have been
receiving from every one of you. Rest assured, at the very least I can say with
certainty that I have read every single message that has hit my inbox. I still
aim to respond to each of you in kind—but for those of you asking for me to
evaluate tattoos they want to get, let me hit you with a blanket statement:
Don't get a tattoo of anything in a language you don't speak confidently. But if
you insist, there's a Latin subreddit just for tattoos.

Back to the grind now. Also, there's now a fun little Critical Role easter egg
in the search form, because I can do that.

Love you all,

—Kevin

P.S. When the new site launches, we are probably going to kill the ads. The
amount of revenue is just enough to cover for the site's hosting costs, but for
me it's also a tax nightmare, and most people have ad blocks anyway (I sure
do!). But on a moral level, I also want to stop putting us further down what
Mikko calls a "Free Lunch" style of service, where the service is provided "free
of charge" in exchange for selling ads, which seem harmless but these networks
promote tracking of personal data, even if the user does not consent to it.
Since I can't control what the ad networks do, I'd rather opt just to eliminate
ads entirely and provide this website as a legitimate "free lunch" so to speak,
no strings attached. I make enough money to offset the hosting costs for now,
and if we ever hit financial dire straits in the future, we can re-evaluate how
to pay the costs.




WHAT IS LATDICT?

Latdict is a powerful dictionary tool to aid those wishing to lookup Latin words
or their English equivalents. Latdict currently boasts 39,225 Latin word
entries, and 229,345 searchable English words.

WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT LATDICT?

Several Latin dictionaries currently exist on the web, but most of them provide
raw, cryptic or otherwise unwanted results. I created LATdict because I was
tired of dealing with irrelevant search results and digging through cryptic
codes that described a word's function and history. When I finished creating
LATdict, the dictionary exhibited the following features:

 * Latdict uses an effective and efficient search algorithm, based on experience
   working with other websites that provide a query-based service.
 * Latdict also ranks entries based on how often they appear in Latin
   literature; Latin can have several different words for the same term, but
   some words are more popular than others. Latdict utilizes the information to
   provide more common words at the top of dictionary search results.
 * Latdict spells everything out in plain English (or Latin). One thing that
   constantly pains me about Latin dictionaries is that they often omit
   information about their entries, such as omitting declension, conjugation,
   and other auxiliary information. Other dictionaries might list this
   information, but provide it in a raw or otherwise cryptic format. Latdict
   goes out of its way to specify information about each entry. In fact, Latdict
   also provides other information as well, including the age of the entry, its
   area of use, its geographical influence, its frequency, and the source of the
   entry.




WHAT’S COMING UP?

TWO WORDS: ADVANCED SEARCH

Yes, I am still working on this! Still one of the largest unfulfilled requests
is the ability to perform advanced searches. I plan to rectify this situation
once I finish the grammar section. “Advanced Search” will have the following
features:

 * Search a particular part of speech (verb, adverb, adjective, etc.)
 * Search by word commonality, geographic location(s) used, time periods used,
   or source
 * Search by declension or conjugation

Once that is complete, I hope to start having inflection matching. This means
that you will no longer have to search for a word in its dictionary form (e.g.
nominative/genetive for nouns and adjectives, principle parts for verbs). This
will really help casual visitors who are wanting to look up words but know
absolutely nothing about Latin inflection. The real challenge with this feature,
however, is the fact that there are so many exceptions to each inflection
pattern that it will be hard to get most of them down.




RECOMMENDED
LATIN READING




 * Home
 * Search
 * Word List
 * Grammar
 * Why Latin?
 * About

Site copyright © 2002-2024 Kevin D. Mahoney (@kabojnk) and the Latdict Group.
All rights reserved. Additional site development and educational support by
Whitney Wallace. Lastly, we would like to give a special posthumous thanks to
USAF Col. William Whitaker for all that he has done.