From 66a91cb7986e7d4c0785a04eb04cb8d6b7b59fba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pav Lucistnik Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:00:36 +0000 Subject: Add words, a free Latin-English dictionary program which contains over 30000 entries and, through additional word construction with hundreds of prefixes and suffixes, may generate more, leading to many hundreds of thousands of 'words' that can be formed by declension and conjugation. This is also our first port written in ADA. PR: ports/60822 Submitted by: Leland Wang --- textproc/words/pkg-descr | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 textproc/words/pkg-descr (limited to 'textproc/words/pkg-descr') diff --git a/textproc/words/pkg-descr b/textproc/words/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3f9824ad78b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/words/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +WORDS is a free Latin-English dictionary program which takes keyboard +input or a file of Latin text lines and provides an analysis/morphology +(declension, conjugation, case, tense, etc.) of each word individually, +the dictionary form, and the translation (meaning). + +The dictionary contains over 30000 entries and, through additional word +construction with hundreds of prefixes and suffixes, may generate more, +leading to many hundreds of thousands of 'words' that can be formed by +declension and conjugation. Present emphisis is on classical Latin and +late Latin, but medieval Latin entries are increasing. WORDS provides a +tool to help in translations for the Latin student and a memory jog for +researchers. + +Author: William Whitaker +WWW: http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm -- cgit v1.2.3