WHITAKERS-WORDS(1)

✨ WHITAKERS-WORDS(1) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about whitakers-words from the WHITAKERS-WORDS Manual — it's the latin parser and translator and it is so extra in the best way 🏛️💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

whitakers-words — latin parser and translator 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

whitakers-words ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so whitakers-words is built to mess with latin words, like, any form they might show up in inside a text. no cap, it will clock prefixes, U/V switches, suffixes, and a whole bunch of other possible mutations 🧚✨

to use it you literally just call the executable. an onscreen help pops up describing the basic program usage, and then you type in the Latin word(s) you wanna translate, and it outputs an analysis for each and every one of them. it's giving ✨linguistics✨ and we're obsessed 😭

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👑 OUTPUT 👑

the table shows the breakdown of the word into its parts, the type of word (eg, V for Verb, PRON for Pronoun), and its conjugation or declension 🌈

then it displays the case — and for verbs, that's the tense, voice, and mood 💅

then it shows the person (singular or plural), and the gender (eg, Masculine) ⭐

underneath all that, you get info on the stem, and beneath that, the possible translations 🫶

if the word is ambiguous in Whitaker's processing, then every single possible breakdown gets shown. the ones that share a stem get listed together, with one set of translations. the ones that involve different stems get shown in brand-new sections. no overlapping, no confusion, iconic behaviour honestly 👑

multiple words entered on one line get separated and processed in order. and if whitakers-words notices a prefix or a suffix, it will treat it as a separate word 🦋

to read more about whitakers-words, see the Readme installed at /usr/share/doc/whitakers-words/Readme.md, or the help displayed at program start 📖✨

not me being real for a sec — Whitaker's word is an old program, and the best documentation for its behavior is its' ADA source 💀 like, the vibe is "trust the source code, bestie."

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💖 COPYING 💖

Copyright © 2020 Calum McConnell calumlikesapplepie@gmail.com

Free use of this manual page is granted under the GPL, version 2, or any later version.

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aaaand that's the whole thing, bestie 🎀 this page is from the WHITAKERS-WORDS Manual, version WHITAKERS-WORDS, dated 2026-02-10 — mwah, go translate some latin, you're gonna eat 💅💖