![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone who wishes to read Vatican/Catholic/ecclesiastical Latin.Blitz Latin now incorporates the “Calepinus Novus” dictionary (courtesy of Guy Licoppe, Melissa Foundation, Belgium) for modern words, such as the Latin for car and aeroplane. More Latin has been written in the last 50 years than in all previous history. Anyone who wants to read modern Latin texts.A substantial additional 4,000-word medieval dictionary containing all the most common medieval Latin inventions will be supplied free to those who register use of Blitz Latin. Blitz Latin has a substantial vocabulary of common medieval and legal Latin words also a large sub-dictionary for translation of medieval Latin music files – for example, at Blitz Latin also employs phonetic word checking for badly (mis)spelled medieval Latin words. Anyone who wishes to translate medieval or legal Latin documents.For example, translation of little-known Latin authors, Latin fragments and Latin inscriptions (at Anyone who wants translation of Latin text for which no expert English translation is available.In addition the electronic dictionary contains more than 12,000 medieval Latin inventions and more than 10,400 modern Latin inventions, such as Latin words for the motor-car (automobilis) and the helicopter (helicopterum).” Who will benefit from fast Latin Translation? Or the verb consisto: classical meaning ‘stand/rest/take a position’, neoLatin meaning is ‘consist’. As well as the separate medieval dictionary there is a set of medieval translation rules to handle this distinct area of Latin.įor example the verb existo: classical meaning is ‘emerge/appear/arise/become’, medieval meaning is commonly ‘exist’. It covers all eras from antiquity to modern times. To provide context, the huge Oxford Latin Dictionary (classical Latin only) has around 34,000 words excluding proper names. There are nearly 4.61 million words if inflections are counted. not counting the very many inflected variants of nearly every word. These are words as they would be counted in a paper dictionary, i.e. with the botany dictionary add-on 76,235 words.With the supplemental medieval dictionary the total is 70,560 words.The basic electronic dictionary contains more than 65,150 words ( including the Catholic/Vatican and modern sub-dictionaries).The only unknown words (excepting proper names) that will be encountered with Blitz Latin will be those with a frequency of fewer than four occurrences across the range of files containing 5 million+ words listed in the ‘Accuracy” tabbed section below. Blitz Latin gives you the best of both methods as it also contains a large file of pre-translated phrases.īlitz Latin has a huge knowledge of Latin words. This can give excellent sense when texts from already translated authors are entered, but can struggle with texts from unknown writers. Translators such as Google work by matching existing published translations to the new text. It has very significant benefits over some online translators in that it translates from scratch using grammatical rules and dictionaries and can show a comprehensive range of possible alternative meanings. Blitz Latin is a very flexible Latin to English translation program. ![]()
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