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Which online Latin dictionaries should I use and why?
What good online Latin dictionaries do you know?
What are their benefits and drawbacks?
Please give only one dictionary per answer.
If you have many dictionaries to suggest, give multiple answers &...
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What is Google Translate good for?
Google Translate is notoriously unreliable for Latin.
However, the translations do make some amount of sense.
Is there some kind of translation task involving Latin that Google Translate is relatively ...
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How can I study Latin on my own?
What good widely available courses (e.g. textbooks, online classes) are there for people who wish to learn (or continue to learn) Latin on their own?
What are their benefits and drawbacks?
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Where to find an online Latin text corpus and what can I do with it?
Suppose I want to search for a certain word, expression or structure in the Latin literature.
What online tools can I use for such purposes?
Where can I find a large collection of Latin texts in ...
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Less complicated Latin texts to continue reading after highschool
So I realise this might not be a well defined question, but I hope it can still classify as not being a discussion.
So I have just finished highschool and after 6 years of Latin, I am not quite ...
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Resources for pronouncing Latin
What resources are out there for learning to pronounce Latin?
Latin was pronounced differently in different places and eras, so resources for any part of the spatiotemporal realm of Latin are welcome.
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Is Duolingo good for Latin?
On August 28*, 2019 Duolingo announced its Latin course for English speakers.
Out of curiosity, I subscribed, but I'm just starting to peek into it.
My question is (if anyone has tried it in depth ...
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How to find scholarly articles related to Latin?
If I want to find research articles of some kind to learn more about a particular topic related to Latin, what should I do?
I am a trained scientist, but my own research is on a very different field.
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A complete family tree
There are many Latin words for relatives: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, cousin…
Different languages have slightly different sets of words for relatives and some ...
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What are the benefits of studying Latin?
Many of us have studied Latin simply because we enjoy it, and many have found use for it when studying something like philosophy or history where Latin materials are commonplace.
However, I am not ...
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Are there dictionaries that translate profanities profanely?
Sometimes I come across Latin profanities, for example when reading a certain poem of Catullus.
Many dictionaries fail to translate profanities properly, perhaps in order to maintain a certain level ...
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Abbreviations in Latin dictionaries, especially Lewis and Short
When reading Lewis and Short online1, I have occasional trouble figuring out what the various abbreviations mean.
This includes authors and their works, but, more importantly to me, also other ...
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The syntax of swearing
How to swear in Latin?
I am not looking for vocabulary, but syntax.
Did the Romans only swear using interjections, or did could swearing be used within a sentence?
There are several ways to swear in ...
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Is there any database on idiomatic expressions in Latin?
It is often said that one has an excellent command of a language when one is able to use it in an idiomatic way, which typically involves making use of Idioms and Collocations, i.a. There are many ...
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What are popular fonts for polytonic Greek?
There are quite a lot of fonts available for writing Latin, which have been designed for easy legibility and contain all the letters of the Latin alphabet.
For the Greek alphabet, however, most modern ...
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What are the most important scholarly resources for Latin and Greek historical linguistics?
When it comes to historical linguistics (history, prehistory, Indo-European studies, etymology) of Latin and Greek, what are the most important resources?
The resources can be historical grammars, ...
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Statistics for why people choose to study Latin
I would like to know why people have chosen to study Latin.
I am not looking for personal anecdotes but statistics.
Are there any studies on why students who choose Latin do so?
If there are several, ...
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Resources for pronouncing Greek
Similar to our question about the pronunciation of Latin, I believe it would be very useful for users to have a single question to reference for resources for pronouncing Greek. Greek, as with Latin, ...
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Set of texts of increasing difficulty
I am looking for resources to progress in Latin reading.
In particular, I would like a set of texts (for example short stories or fables) whose difficulty increases as you go along.
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What etymological dictionaries of Latin are there?
In many cases, I want to look up cognates or PIE reconstructions for Latin words, and it would be nice to have a more scholarly source than Wiktionary.
What are the standard reference works in this ...
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Resources that classify words/definitions by period in Latin history?
I'm trying to develop a stronger sense of what/how Latin vocabulary was used at different points in the history of the language. In looking around Google and archive.org, I've found dictionaries from, ...
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Resource request: formation of the Greek infinitive, including Homeric Greek
As suggested by cmw, I'm spinning off this resource request from an earlier question that was long and unwieldy.
Can anyone suggest resources that do a good job of giving a complete presentation of ...
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