Full Text Search
Search the 22,134 headwords (vedettes) and full text in a structured database in Robert Estienne's Dictionarium latinogallicum (1552), using accented characters and logical operators, described in the general PhiloLogic manual. The full-text contains 881,413 words and 137,538 unique words (here, each Latin noun inflection is counted as a separate unique word). Sample searches are provided below. Please report problems to Mark Olsen (mark@barkov.uchicago.edu).
Examples
The following list indicates the values to enter in search form boxes.
headword=word means put word in the Headword box
word=word means put one or more word(s) in the Search articles for
box
Simple headword searches:
The headwords for this database are Latin,
while the entries contain both Latin and French.
As a consequence, all headword searches must use Latin terms rather than French.
The search engine will search for any string of characters entered in the headword box,
regardless of where that string appears in the headword(s) found.
For example, entering the string capu will find not only words beginning with this string
- e.g. capus, caput, capula, etc. - but also words with these letters in the middle,
- e.g. decapulo, scapula, and scapus.
To limit a search to those words beginning with the string only,
enter the carat (^) before the first letter of the string.
This search will still find all words beginning with this string, regardless of how they end.
Thus, capula will find capula, capulator, capularis, and scapula;
while ^capula will find only capula, capulator, and capularis.
The headword search also allows users to search multiple terms at the same time
using the OR operator: a vertical line (|).
For example: historia|annales|chronica.
Note that at this time the OR operator is not working.
This is a known problem, and we are working on it.
Accent and multiple form searches:
There are a few accents in the French portions of the text,
but they are neither consistent nor reliable either with modern French or throughout the database.
For example:
es as preposition, not as verb and és seem to be interchangable.
There are three ways to represent this word with its accent:
word=e/s
word=és
word=Es
The last of these will find instances of both es and és.
Watch also for orthographic variations; for example: escrire
rather than écrire.
Combined field searches:
These are useful for finding words within one or more given entries/headwords only.
You might also use them as another sort of AND search,
particularly to search simultaneously one Latin and one French term.
Keep in mind that the headwords are Latin only.
For example:
headword=monarcha word=peuple
Full text searches:
Since the dictionary headwords are in Latin,
while the texts are in French and Latin,
Full-text searching is the only way to search French terms, or to use the search engine to find the Latin head-words equivalent to the desired French terms.
For example, the following search
word=histoire|chroniques|annales
shows that the useful Latin headwords for this topic include (predictably):
annales, chronica, chronicus, and historia;
but also more general words indicating writing, speaking, or memory, e.g.,
commentarius, descriptio, dico, loquor, memoria, monimentum, noto, etc.
Of course, full-text searching also works to search across all dictionary entries for single terms,
or using the AND and OR operators. For example,
put "prince peuple" in the search articles box and select paragraph
This search will generate 5 hits,
while prince alone geneates 62, and peuple alone gets 294.
Notes Keep in mind that since the database is from the 16th century, there may be orthographic variation, or antiquated word forms and spellings. The 16th century French word escrire is a good example of this.