Whitaker's Words

Latin Morphological Analyzer and Dictionary

Whitaker's Words - Latin Morphological Analyzer

"Whitaker's Words" is a comprehensive Latin morphological analyzer and dictionary for Android, offering extensive language resources and root word recognition. This app is a faithful port of the original William Whitaker's program, ensuring feature completeness while remaining ad-free and open-source. It requires no permissions and allows users to explore various morphological forms with ease. Access the source code and report issues via GitHub for a collaborative experience in Latin language learning.
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Users: 17,728
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Rating: 4.93
(244)
Version: 2.2.0 (Last updated: 2024-01-27)
Creation date: 2015-09-08

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App summary

Analyze keywords

This is a port of William Whitaker's words program to android.

Words has an extensive dictionary of the Latin language as well as the capability to recognize various morphological forms and determine what the root word is as well as the what form it is in. Unlike other apps based on Whitaker's words, this is a port of the original code rather than simply using the dictionary, and therefore essentially feature complete compared to the desktop program.

This app is ad-free, open source, and requires no permissions.

Source code: https://github.com/ids1024/whitakers-words-android
Bug tracker: https://github.com/ids1024/whitakers-words-android/issues

User reviews

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Pros
  • Excellent Latin dictionary with comprehensive information about words
  • User-friendly and straightforward to navigate
  • No ads, providing a clean experience
  • Very helpful for students and those studying Latin
  • Highly recommended by teachers and users for its effectiveness
Cons
  • Issues with the app not working after updates, specifically error messages
  • Desire for a lighter mode or theme for usability
  • Some difficulty in understanding abbreviations used in definitions
  • Limited functionality for switching quickly between English and Latin
Most mentioned
  • Helpful for Latin studies
  • Great definitions and parsing information
  • User-friendly interface
  • No ads
  • Issues after updates
User reviews
After the most recent update it no longer works! It kept complaining "failed to execute words"! I am on Pixel 6 pro with Android 13. Update fixed it! Thanks for the author for being so responsive! Now it works well.
by Jiang Qian, 2023-01-26
Do not upgrade! App stops working. I only get the error message: "Failed to execute words!".
by Fred Mull, 2023-01-26
A must have for anyone studying Latin.
by Marina Profeti, 2022-05-09
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