Type in the form of the word that you would expect to find in a dictionary or a truncated form of the word (e.g., stem only). If you want help with the ending of a word, type the ending in the space provided. (If you prefer, you may leave this space blank). To see all the words in the dictionary that begin with "q", search for "q" as the stem. You can also translate English to Latin.
This dictionary defines about 15,600 words. Florin Neumann, who found the data on the Internet and reformatted it for the Macintosh, says that it may not be used for commercial purposes. Matt Neuburg reformatted it so that it would operate on the Macintosh as a memory-resident searchable dictionary. I reformatted the dictionary again and wrote scripts to search it together with Lynn Nelson's grammar aid to produce the answers you find here.
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For a program with a better understanding of Latin grammar and a larger vocabulary (30,000 words), try William Whitaker's Words. |
(If you like Words and have DOS, Windows, Linux, or Free BSD, download it and use it offline. A commercial product called Blitz Latin, produced by Dr. John White in collaboration with William Whitaker, can translate texts from Latin to English automatically.)
Suggestion: use frames to keep the program going in one frame while you read a Latin text (such as Genesis) in another. (See below for links to other texts.) Or open a new window and keep the dictionary in one window and the text in another. See also the Latin dictionary at the Perseus Project, an online version of the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary.
William Harris has been developing his Humanist's Latin Dictionary since 1984. It defines about 15,000 words. He offers versions for Macintosh and Windows through Centaur Systems.
If your browser can handle Java, you might also like to take advantage of Mike McLarnon's Java Applet to conjugate Latin verbs. He also has DOS and Windows programs to decline nouns and conjugate verbs which you can download.
This grammar reference list, also produced by Lynn Nelson, presently contains two sections: examples of translations for the various uses of several noun cases, and the endings for regular nouns, adjectives, active verbs, and present participles.
Search using the form "*ending". n=noun, a=adjective, v=verb, p=present participle. If you find that the ending is that of a form of the noun or adjective that is unfamiliar to you, turn to the first section for the different uses of the cases.
* | *a | *ae | *am | *amus | *ant | *arum | *as | *at | *ate | *atis
*bam | *bamus | *bant | *bas | *bat | *batis | *bimus | *bis | *bit | *bitis | *bo | *bunt
*e | *ebus | *ei | *em | *emus | *ens | *ent | *ente | *entem | *enti | *entia | *entibus | *entis | *entium | *er | *erim | *erimus | *erint | *eris | *erit | *eritis | *erum | *es | *et | *ete | *etis
*i | *ia | *ibus | *imus | *ior | *iora | *iore | *iorem | *iores | *iori | *ioribus | *ioris | *iorum | *is | *issem | *issemus | *issent | *isses | *isset | *issetis | *it | *ite | *itis | *ius
*o | *ora | *ori | *oribus | *oris | *orum | *os
*re | *rem | *remus | *rent | *res | *ret | *retis | *ri | *ria | *ribus | *ris | *rium
*u | *ua | *ueram | *ueramus | *uerant | *ueras | *uerat | *ueratis | *uerimus | *uerint | *ueris | *uerit | *ueritis | *uero | *uerunt | *ui | *uimus | *uisti | *uistis | *uit | *um | *unt | *us | *uum
| You can hire experts to translate English to Latin or Latin to English through the Latin Translations web page.. |
Dale A. Grote offers several excellent resources: Online study guide to Wheelock's Latin, RealAudio files to Wheelock's Self-Help Tutorials, Online Elementary Latin Readings with Vocabulary and Notes, Frequently Asked Questions on Common Grammatical Terms, and Resource Page for Wheelock's Latin.
William Harris has provided some lively pages about Latin language and literature and several helpful Latin downloads for the Macintosh. I also recommend the Latin Teaching Materials at Saint Louis University and Textkit - Greek and Latin Learning Tools.
If you have a Linux, Free BSD, DOS or Windows computer, you can download Words, a Latin dictionary program by William Whitaker. This program also offers help with word endings. On Windows computers, this program operates in a DOS window. Roger Pearse offers QuickLatin, a shareware program that uses William Whitaker's dictionary but also offers help with the translation of sentences. It requires Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, or 2000. The Latin Parser and Translator by Adam McLean, a Windows program developed in Visual Basic, provides help with Latin vocabulary and grammar.
If you care to learn more about Latin grammar, you will find the online version of Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar useful. For a free Windows program to drill yourself and improve your knowledge of grammar, try Lingua Latina. For other interesting links, see the Perseus Digital Library. You might find some of the language features on Ancient / Classical History at The Mining Co. useful, too. And the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Tartu has a helpful list of Latin resources; the Fairfax County Public Schools maintain another list of Latin Language Sites
If you don't mind using an old-fashioned book from time to time, Mark D. Vanderbilt recommends the Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms by Donald J. Borror, Ohio State University (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1988) ISBN 0-87484-053-8. For Latin and other languages, see Robert Beard's Web of Dictionaries.
For Roman numeral and date conversion, see Steven Gibbs' page. For information on Roman numerals and dates, see Paul Lewis's page.
Lynn H. Nelson's original version of Latin Grammar Aid and Latin Wordlist are available from the University of Kansas.
I made the most recent changes on this page 20 May 2005.