Two local historical glossaries
Check one Modern English word at a time against a compact Latin or Old English glossary. Matches are deterministic, gaps stay visible, and the result is not sentence translation.
239 English lookup entries in this mode.
1 matched · 0 unmatched; punctuation and order preserved.
Local word lookup; not sentence translation.
Each letter token is lowercased for lookup. A match receives one checked-in headword; an unmatched token remains exactly as entered.
These links are verification references, not remote APIs. The conversion uses the checked-in glossaries and runs locally.
The checked-in common-word starter list is normalized to one unmacronized headword and spot-checked against the public-domain dictionaries aggregated by Logeion. It is not a transcription of Logeion and does not preserve all senses or inflected forms.
Logeion, University of Chicago
Published spot checks: love → amor, peace → pax, water → aqua.
The checked-in starter glossary is normalized to one conventional headword and spot-checked against Bosworth–Toller entries and scanned pages. It is not exhaustive and does not encode dialect, date, morphology, or every sense.
Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, Charles University
Published spot checks: king → cyning, love → lufu, water → wæter.
No. It replaces independently matched English tokens and preserves their original order. It cannot choose grammar, inflection, idiom, agreement, or the intended sense of a whole sentence.
That token is absent from the selected checked-in glossary. Leaving it unchanged exposes the coverage boundary instead of inventing a historical form.
Yes. Polysemy and historical context often require different headwords. This tool exposes one compact starter entry, so verify consequential wording in the linked dictionary and with a qualified reader.
The compact Latin list uses unmacronized forms; the Old English list chooses one conventional spelling. Neither mode represents a full critical lexicon or all manuscript and dialect variants.
Guide: translator limits — read this before consequential use.
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