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A LaTeX Latin-English dictionary

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Dictionarium Gallovidii Linguae Latinae

A concise Latin-English dictionary

Once upon a time, I was learning Latin and having a grand old time. Latin, being rather a difficult endeavour, necessitated that I compile a collection of reference sheets for the words and concepts that I was wrestling with understanding and remembering. One such document for Latin nouns, one such for verbs, which makes sense. As the language to which I was being indroduced grew in complexity, so too did the number of reference sheets—adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions—as did their size. I then came upon a stupid idea. "What if I were to take all these references and combine them into a single reference?"
Well then I guess I would have a dictionary.

Here then, is Dictionarium Gallovidii Linguae Latinae, a Latin-English dictionary written from the perspective of an English-speaking person (engineer?) learning the Latin language from a small number of primary sources and a larger number of literary secondary sources.

The document is not yet finished, but I am pretty determined to learn this stuff, so expect actual progress to be made relatively frequently.

Usage

If you're really interested in how far along this project is, I suppose you can compile it. I dunno why you'd do this before any actual releases exist. Don't let me catch you printing it.

git clone https://github.com/jwrg/dictionarium.git
pdflatex dictionary.tex

Sources

We would get nowhere without standing on the shoulders of giants. This project is a distillation of other sources on the Latin language.

Primary Sources

The document considers the following primary sources:

  • Molinarius (TTC's The Great Courses Latin 101)
  • Wheelock's Latin

Secondary Sources

The document considers the following secondary sources:

  • Levy's A Latin Reader for Colleges

LaTeX Class and Packages

The document makes use of custom LaTeX packages, which are collected under the Capiar project:

  • dictionarium (class)
  • dictionarium (package)
  • inscription (package)

Roadmap

The following sections are decidedly incomplete, and require further attention:

  • Declensions (for adjectives)
  • Deponent verbs (examples)
  • Adverbs (formatting)
  • Conjunctions (formatting)
  • Pronouns (formatting)
  • Prepositions (formatting)

In the future, the following will be added:

  • Conditionals and clauses
  • Interrogatives
  • The 4th and 5th declensions
  • Gerunds and gerundives
  • Numbers and counting
  • Appendices for irregulars

Not related to the language, but also still to be added:

  • A proper preface
  • Tables that stick together