Kurzbeschreibung
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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.
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.
