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THE LATIN LANGUAGE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT by William Harris
A brief, but scholarly treatment of the subject
***THE INDO-EUROPEAN: AN ANCIENT AND WIDESPREAD FAMILY OF LANGUAGE by William Harris
***THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES from The Fact Monster
A very good resource with cross references to the various
branchs of Indo-European
THE LATIN LANGUAGE: AN IRREVERENT BUT TRUE CHRONOLOGY by Timothy J. Pulju
An example of Pulju's irreverence:
"mid 1960s -- The Catholic Church decides that Latin is no longer the obligatory language of Catholic liturgies. Meanwhile, what with free love and everything, most young people of the 60s figure they have better things to do than learn Latin.
LATIN AND ENGLISH: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW by Kate Nyhan
A good survey of the topic.
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**A Flash Presentation: The Family Tree of Indo-European Languages
Rool
your mouse over the Viking to see an
enlarged version of this tree in a separate window.
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STUDY GUIDE TO WHEELOCK'S LATIN by Dale A. Grote
Grote explains the rationale for his study guide: "Wheelock's Latin is now, and probably will be for sometime in the future, the most widely used introductory Latin book used in American colleges and universities.......A growing difficulty with the book has become apparent in recent years, a problem that is entirely external to the text itself: students are less and less able to understand his explanations of Latin grammar because their grasp of English grammar is becoming more tenuous." Student of Latin will find Grote's explanations of English Grammar clear and insightful.
Download a complete edition of this study guide.
Another great site, an online Latin course based on the popular Ecce Romani series of textbooks. Good ancillary material at this site
A COMPARATIVE LATIN GRAMMAR by Cyril Babaev
An excellent history of the development of the language from a linguistic point of view. An old, but useful text, though in places perhaps too technical for high school students
THE INTELLIGENT PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE LATIN LANGUAGE
The author summarizes his approach: "This Project has two purposes: a) To deliver an "architectonic view" of the Latin linguistic system, with a sense of what the parts mean and where they fit into a working linguistic whole. b) At the same time to present a rational explanation of the individual components as they are described (paradigms and all), in the belief that we know enough about practical linguistics at this time to revamp the Classical traditional-ese jargon and talk about Latin as a language-system which was quite satisfactory for well over a millennium of varied communications."
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LEWIS AND SHORT LATIN DICTIONARY: provided by the Perseus Project.
The best and most extensive online dictionary of the Latin Language
WORDS
by William Whitaker FREE DOWNLOAD
This dictionary has about 17,000 entries.
Click here to download program
LATIN DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR AID
This dictionary defines about 15,600 words.
"This Latin dictionary made its first appearance back in 1995 when Greek Dictionaries from the Liddel & Scott series were already online but a reasonably good Latin dictionary was still wanting for the Internet community. The present dictionary is an improvisation based on a word-list originally from Lynn H. Nelson of the University of Kansas."
THE DIGITAL LATIN LEXICON FREE DOWNLOAD
A good dictionary that you can download to your computer
LATIN WORD LIST by Lynn H. Nelson
This word List contains some eight thousand entries.
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EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LATIN ENDING BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Everything you would want to know about the morphology of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.
From the Latin Language site, which is an excellent resource and should be the first place you visit when seeking information on grammar, morphology, etymology, and other related items. Go to Latin Language
ALLEN AND GREENOUGH'S LATIN GRAMMAR
The best grammar online, hosted by the Perseus Project. For advanced students
A COMPARATIVE lATIN GRAMMAR by Cyril Babaev
An excellent history of the development of the language from a linguistic point of view. An old, but useful text, though perhaps too technical for high school students
LATIN GRAMMAR NOTES AND STUDY GUIDES
An excellent collection of study guides, especially useful for review of forms. This site also contains readings for various levels of proficiency.
A GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS
A very useful glossary with examples from English
THE HARD LITTLE WORDS: PREPOSITIONS, ADVERBS, CONJUGATIONS
LINGUA LATINA by Bob Hasenfratz FREE DOWNLOAD
Lingua Latina is a free program which drills users on the basics of Latin grammar.
"This is a Java Version of the Latin conjugation program. It will conjugate any regular verb into any of the six tenses of the indicative mood, and into either active or
passive voice. You must enter one of the principal parts of the verb."
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LATIN DERIVATIVES: ENGLISH WORDS FROM LATIN FOR SCHOOL, PROFESSION, AND EVERYDAY LIFE by Eugene R. Moutoux
An excellent resource with an extensive list of word etymologies organized by the Latin roots, e.g. acer, acris, acre - sharp; fierce English: acerbic, acrid (acridity),acrimonious (acrimony), exacerbate.
ROOTS OF ENGLISH: AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY by Prof. Eugene Cotter, Seton Hall University FREE DOWNLOAD
An excellent resource for anybody interested in word roots and the history of the English Language
AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
An extensive list of word that have their origin in Greco-Roman myth.
VERBUM SAT SAPIENTI (A Word to the Wise is Sufficient...)
An extensive list of word etymologies from the folks at Latin.about.com
"What follows is list of some curious word origins. Some
of these are English, but some are French and German words from which
we get some English words."
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THE LATIN LIBRARY AT THE AD FONTES ACADEMY
Latin texts of all the major authors, both Classical and Medieval
LATIN SOFTWARE FREE DOWNLOAD
"The Windows programs listed below are hypertexts designed to provide the reader with quick access to vocabulary and notes. You can retrieve the definition of any word in the text by double-clicking on it."
Liber I Fabularum Phaedri (Seneca's Phaedra)
Liber II Fabularum Phaedri
Eclogae Vergilii (Vergil's Eclogues)
Somnium Scipionis (Scipio's Dream)
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (The Achievements of the Divine Augustus)
THE CAESAR MACHINE FREE DOWNLOAD
Freeware Version 3.0 for Window: Latin hypertext reader for De Bello Gallico, Bks. II-V, by Michael Cummings
"This program lets the user scroll through the Latin text
of Caesar's Gallic War, Bks. II-V (about 20,000 wds.). When the user comes
to an unrecognized vocabulary word, clicking on the word with the mouse
will open or refresh at the bottom of the screen a small window with the
dictionary entry for that word (in English)."
From the Premier Classical site on the web. Latin texts currently available on this web site: Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Hirtius, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plautus, Servius,Vergil. The texts are broken into chunks for ease of browsing, with links and a lookup tool to help you navigate through the texts quickly.
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Send comments to rdaniel@ccsd.edu
Other web sites by Danielson: Caesar's De
Bello Gallico: Internet Resources & Cicero
and the Catilinarian Conspiracy