latin translators?

Question

any one know any good online translators? i need some help translating and it would be greatly appreciated! thanks!!

Answer 1

On-line translators are not properly working unless you use them to find a single word. This is even more true with Latin which construction is so complicate that it's absolutely amazing what you get out by putting a Latin sentence into an on-line translator.
If you instead need it for a single word you can use this one
http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

Answer 2

Flat answer - there is no such thing. They are all essentially worhtless for anything. None of the translators for Latin online anything close to a decent translation going either way. There are too many instances where you must know the context before choosing one of the four or five possible word choices. Other problems seem to arise from the high degree of inflection in Latin - the translators just do not seem to get case and number right, and the verbs are just as bad, especially the subjunctive. Seems like the translators assume all is indicative. This is probably compounded by Latin's lack of even semi-fixed word order.

The net result is you get a bunch of nouns and verbs that may or may not be in context, and you still don't know who did what with which to whom when.


Single word translators which show you several possible choices for one word work. One of the best of those is:

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/whi...

Answer 3

www.freetranslation.com