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Re: Online Latin Dictionary with Vowel Length



thanks a million, this is exactly what i needed!

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM, thedudeatx <thedudeatx@...> wrote:
> >  am working on a pet Romconlang project and am wondering if anyone
> >  knows of an online Latin dictionary that marks vowel length. there
> >  are several dictionaries, but it's impossible to do correct
> >  derivations without knowing the vowel lengths. any ideas? thanks
a lot.
> 
> The online Lewis and Short at the Perseus project
> (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin) has
> vowel length marked.  In the full version, long vowels are macronned
> and short vowels are breve'd; in the Elementary version, only the long
> vowels are marked.  There are some other texts where long vowels are
> unmarked but short vowels are marked as such, so you can still
> distinguish.
> -- 
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>