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v1.0.0 - Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary with Synonyms and Morphology

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Initial release. Compiles the complete Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (1879) into a native macOS Dictionary.app bundle, with always-visible Synonyms and Morphology sections on every applicable entry.

Features:

  • 51,636 unabridged Lewis & Short entries, from Perseus TEI-XML, with full sense hierarchy, overview boxes, and styled citations.
  • Synonyms & Near-Synonyms on 4,410 entries, combining:
    • Spinelli–Fenzi's First Online Dictionary of Latin Near-Synonyms (St Andrews, 2019) — compact near-synonym lists with declension/conjugation markup.
    • Ramshorn's Dictionary of Latin Synonymes (tr. Lieber, 1841) — 1,015 discussion articles distinguishing shades of meaning (e.g. amare vs. diligere).
  • Morphology tables on 33,914 entries: declension grids for nouns/adjectives, indicative (all six tenses, both voices) + infinitives for verbs, built from Perseus/Morpheus full-form analyses (392k forms, via Diogenes).
  • Inflected-form lookup: every attested form is indexed, so Look Up resolves amabant to amo, puellam to puella, etc. Orthographic variants (i/j, u/v) are indexed too.
  • Sense-cycle-restart divider: when L&S introduces a derived headword mid-entry (e.g. amo's "Hence, amans, antis, P. a.") and reuses A/B/C for its own senses, a visual divider marks the restart so it doesn't read as a continuation.

Installation: unzip and drag LatinDictionary.dictionary into ~/Library/Dictionaries/, then enable "Latin (Lewis & Short)" in Dictionary.app Settings.

See README.md for build-from-source instructions and full data-source licensing (Lewis & Short and morphology: CC BY-SA 4.0; Ramshorn: public domain; Spinelli–Fenzi: CC BY).

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