12/29/2023 0 Comments Comenius orbis pictus xml![]() “Comenius”: Fun (like my daily Aesop’s fable)? Hardly. Possibly not, since Comenius was a native Moravian from the first half of the seventeenth century, known mostly for his “didactic” works on education, so why would you have? Possibly you’ve heard of Comenius, especially if you’ve explored the LATINUM podcast. īut the Mother Lode of vocabulary for me has been Comenius. Whitaker’s Words is both Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin, it operates on any form of the word you enter (such as a particular declension or conjugation), and it compiles its ~39,000 words from medieval as well as classical sources. You can run this as a free Windows/Mac/Linux local application, called WORDS (on a PC it runs like a DOS program), access it online, or use the interface to it that is part of Thomas McCarthy’s Legible Latin (also free). When reading Latin online in snippets of time, I need a quick way to look up words and get a no-frills definition. Check out her web sites and blogs for Latin proverbs, anecdotes, and other fun stuff. This gives me at least a little chance to test my vocabulary and to exercise my Latin with a complete, albeit brief, unit of prose, and have some fun at the same time. Since I spend most of my day online, I try to find a few minutes each day to read the day’s Aesop’s fable (and also here) from Laura Gibbs. Of course, LATINUM is the source of many other valuable readings I take full advantage of, including Comenius, but hold that thought. pdf and the aural reinforcement provided by Millner’s recordings are a fantastic vocabulary builder. Like Raeticus, I had had some difficulty “swallowing” Millner’s readings before being able to see a printed list of the words. The second also has an appendix itemizing a number of mistakes Raeticus detected in Millner’s readings. pdf’s of the Classified Vocabulary the second conforms to the order of Millner’s reading. (You can also purchase the readings on CD from the LATINUM store under the telling title Swallowing the Dictionary.) Raeticus has created two. In 1930, Walter Ripman published “A Handbook of the Latin Language – Being a Dictionary, Classified Vocabulary, and Grammar.” The book is not yet available online, but the Classified Vocabulary is a copious list neatly arranged under fifty topics, and Evan Millner previously recorded all fifty sections on LATINUM. ![]() pdf’s of the Diederich basic vocabulary (varying only in the English translation). ![]() The basic vocabulary is divided into parts of speech and then subdivided by topics such as God, Time, and Food for nouns, “Verbs which express or affect the location of the subject,” Constructive Activities, and Destructive Activities for verbs. Diederich created a “basic vocabulary” based on a word count from three Latin anthologies. Word Frequency and Topical Vocabulary ListsĬarolus Raeticus has created a number of valuable vocabulary aides on his hiberna. But first a few other excellent resources. ![]() Comenius, and that story will be the bulk of this post. I have had a very helpful friend in this endeavor: Mr. In this post I will pass on some resources I have found effective for doing this. But lest my Latin lie completely fallow, I am at least trying this year to beef up my Latin vocabulary. Because this year is my “Greek year,” for the most part I just haven’t had time to follow up on last year’s Latin curriculum by reading Latin authors. I devoted last year to my “Adler + Millner + Ørberg” curriculum for resurrecting my Latin (see my first post, Teaching Yourself Latin and Greek). Drawing on my experience, I have been using this blog to pass on some hopefully helpful information to other aspiring autodidacts. But in whatever spare time I’ve had the last two years, I’ve done my best to resurrect my Latin and Greek, strictly on my own. I am grateful in these times to have a job. ![]()
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