Is there an English to Latin online translator anywhere that actually works?

Answer 1

There are some online translators for Latin, but the best is next to worthless. None of the translators for Latin online give 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 a 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://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.ht...

Answer 2

I was looking for this yesterday, couldn't find one. Most of the sites people give you either won't translate Latin or only translate one word at a time and who has time to do that?! I looked a Biltzlatin (at least it was called something like that) which was a free download but the translations were very, very inaccurate. You'd be best off finding someone who can understand latin and asking for a favour.

Answer 3

The answer is no, (not yet, anyway, I'm sure it is just a matter of time, as Latin is a very rational language, it simply needs a good computer programmer who knows latin well enough...not too many of those floating around, though) So, you'll just have to learn it quickly ! Try the following sites to speed up your learning of Latin:

http://latincast.org
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

Answer 4

No. Latin is far too complex a language to be automatically translated in that way.