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Title: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 14 Feb, 2013, 19:39:19
A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!

Main Page - Ancient Greek - English Dictionary (LSJ) (https://lsj.gr)

This has been a long term project which has finally come to fruition after painstaking work and bug squashing.

It is based on the Greek–English Lexicon (https://lsj.gr/wiki/LSJ:GreekEnglishLexicon), which is more commonly known as Liddell, Scott, Jones (LSJ), an Ancient Greek to English dictionary.

So far, it had been available on Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/search), but there has not been any wiki implementation which would allow for the dictionary to be enriched and improved by user input.

A number of features have been added to enhance translatum's wiki implementation; for example diacritics-insensitive live search, random ancient Greek quotes with English translations, semantically arranged data and Indexes (read about them (https://lsj.gr/wiki/Help:Contents)) with different transliterations and forms to match every taste, from the scholar to the layman.

Most importantly, you can search using polytonic Greek, monotonic Greek, atonic Greek (without any accents at all) as well as Latin characters, (lowercase or uppercase). You will get live search results no matter which option you choose (scroll down to see a video demonstrating this functionality). This was one of the features I considered most important when planning this project as searching for example in Perseus can be quite complex.

As today is Valentine's day, I deemed fit to launch this new project with a tribute to love and a special dedication to classics' scholars (and we do have a couple of resident ones that we particularly have in mind).

Currently user registration is only allowed after approval. Only people who are interested in improving the Lexicon and with Ancient Greek knowledge are eligible. You can apply by email (https://www.translatum.gr/contact.htm) using [LSJ] as your email's subject and suggesting two improvements or additions.

Search form to use on your web site:
https://www.translatum.gr/search-ancient-greek-dictionary-form.txt

Right click on the above link and click save. Then just copy and paste the code from the txt file in your html source code.


(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/autocomplete.png)(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/autocomplete2.png)


(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/fulldiacritics.png)

(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/semanticsearch.png)

(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/betacode.png)

(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/betacode2.png)

(https://www.translatum.gr/images/wiki/agapi-result.png)
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: chrysalida on 14 Feb, 2013, 20:13:22
Great stuff!!
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: billberg23 on 14 Feb, 2013, 21:54:28
τα συγχαρητήριά μου, Σπύρο!  I'll look forward to seeing the video, when it's up and running!
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 14 Feb, 2013, 22:03:23
The video is at the bottom of the first post ;)
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: crystal on 15 Feb, 2013, 00:21:51
Congrats!!!
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: billberg23 on 15 Feb, 2013, 07:04:13
The video is at the bottom of the first post ;)
Yes, I know.  What I meant was, it doesn't play on my computer.  Does it play on yours?
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 15 Feb, 2013, 08:56:35
You need to click on the play button on the bottom left.
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: valeon on 15 Feb, 2013, 22:35:18
Εξαιρετικά, Σπύρο!
Το βίντεο όμως και σε μένα δεν δουλεύει (Google Chrome)
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 15 Feb, 2013, 22:43:41
Κι εγώ Chrome έχω... ίσως πρέπει να εγκαταστήσεις την τελευταία έκδοση Java.
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: billberg23 on 15 Feb, 2013, 23:43:27
You need to click on the play button on the bottom left.
I know.  I did.  It doesn't work.  So I have to install the latest Java, I guess.  )-:
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 16 Feb, 2013, 08:32:26
Maybe, it is a standard .wmv file really. Anyway, you can see the functionality it portrays by simply trying a search on the site, typing either Greek or Latin characters.
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: eltheza on 10 Mar, 2013, 12:06:53
τα συγχαρητήριά μου, Σπύρο!..

Και από μένα :-)!

Wonderful!
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 25 Mar, 2013, 11:47:41
Now you can also use it directly from your browser (https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=341832.0)
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 29 Mar, 2013, 17:41:35
The dictionary has been enriched with English to Ancient Greek entries from Woodhouse's dictionary.
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 19 Nov, 2016, 15:08:41
A version for mobile devices has been added.
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 21 Jul, 2017, 13:43:33
Woodhouse English-Ancient Greek dictionary—wikified by Translatum! (https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=463617.0)
Title: Re: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 23 Feb, 2019, 14:08:46
— The site has been migrated to lsj.gr (https://lsj.gr/wiki/Main_Page) and enriched with more content.
— Links to external sources have been added a) at the top with hyperlinks on the various forms and transliterations b) at the end of some sources as "Look up to..." following the names of the sources.
Title: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 14 Oct, 2019, 11:36:35
Russian to Ancient Greek dictionary added (https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=780408.0)
Title: A Greek–English Lexicon—wikified by Translatum!
Post by: spiros on 26 Jun, 2020, 13:04:24
You will now view the site with a dark theme automatically if your OS setting is for dark mode (or you can use a browser extension to do so).
LSJ:DarkTheme - Ancient Greek (LSJ) (https://lsj.gr/wiki/LSJ:DarkTheme)