Reference Dictionary

Bonus Content added 8/24/2011: Now, buying the best-selling Latin Dictionary on Kindle Store, you get for free a comprehensive collection of Classical Latin texts, from Ammianus to Vitruvius, including Livy, Caesar, Tacitus, Cicero, Vergil and many more.

This dictionary (Latin-English only) is intended to help the student by providing short definitions for most words, even when found in inflected form. Some of the Dictionary's main features:
- Configurable as Kindle Default Dictionary
- More than 39,000 entries (not including inflected forms)
- Covers Classical, Medieval and Ecclesiastical (Church) Latin.
- Recognizes most known inflections
- Recognizes both spelling with J,U and classical spellings with I,V.
- Recognizes words ended with the common -que (and) enclitic.

This dictionary has been compiled from Whitaker's Words data files, which have been thoroughly checked by the author and a large community of users.

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Intructions to configure the Electronic Latin Dictionary as Kindle Default Dictionary:

1) Purchase it in the kindle store and wait until it is downloaded to your kindle
2) Press the Home button
3) Press the Menu button
4) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Settings’ and press 5-way to select
5) Press the Menu button
6) Use the 5-way to underline ‘Change Primary Dictionary’ and press 5-way to select
7) Use 5-way to select this dictionary, then press 5-way to select it, when it’s underlined.

Once the dictionary is select as Kindle Default Dictionary you can, while reading any text in Latin, check the meaning of a word by moving the cursor to the word with the 5-way button.

You can also change back the Default Dictionary to the English-English one or any other you own by following the instructions above.

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Most helpful customer reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
very nice for price
By Thomas Durand
this really works as a default latin dctionary. road tested with the clementine vulgate and it worked fine. nice job mr. n....god bless yoy

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Finally a *Real* Latin Dictionary for the Kindle
By Alptekin Sanli
There exist mobi adaptations of the Lewis&Short (which is in the public domain), that the Kindle does recognize as a 'primary dictionary'--but with absolutely no 'parsing' capabilities, these cannot be used for instant reference. The 'experimental' web-browser on the device on the other hand is still too cumbersome to be of any help, on the Perseus project website.

This, on the other hand, is to my knowledge the first *functional* instant-lookup Latin dictionary on the Kindle; as such it's a tremendously valuable contribution--thank you, Mr. Nicolato.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
I'm stoked! It works!
By James M. Rawley
Fantastic dictionary. I'm reading the AENEID and using the dictionary with no trouble at all, immediately after download. As the dictionary-maker said, any form of the word will get you the definition, and you can make this your default dictionary easily following instructions.

I love it.

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