Numen - The Latin Lexicon

The Latin Lexicon (nicknamed Numen) is an online Latin dictionary (a dictionary of the Latin Language) and Latin grammar tool based on An Elementary Latin Dictionary (by Charlton T. Lewis). This online dictionary is different from any other you've ever used. It has been built from the ground up using AJAX technology to allow the fastest, most efficient and most useful user interface. Oh, and it includes macrons!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Interface Changes, Keyboard Shortcuts and the Ancient Passive Infinitive

I made a couple of small changes to the search interface, mostly by adding keyboard shortcuts:

• When you visit the page, the cursor is automatically placed in the search box. Just start typing because there's no need to click on the search box!
• You can press the up and down arrows to scroll through the list.
• You can press the enter key to view a word.
  

I will also duplicate these changes on the English to Latin search page.

Next I coded an inflectional ending for the "ancient passive infinitive" in -ier. Lucretius is fond of using words like vocārier instead of vocarī (Allen and Greenough, New Latin Grammar, 183.4).

Labels: allen, ancient, cursor, grammar, greenough, infinitive, interface, keyboard, lucretius, passive, shortcuts

// posted by Keith Alexander @ 12:11 PM

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