Skip to content
InterlineaDocs
MCP serverlookup_wordDocs menu

Look up a word

Look up a Latin or Greek headword (amo, arma, λόγος) in the stored analyses: its dictionary entries, the meanings it had in context, and example sentences with translations, citations, urls and licences.

TOOLlookup_word

Accents, breathings and macrons are ignored (fio finds fīō). Covers the graded passages and the library sections readers have analysed, so a rare word may return nothing.

Input

Input
NameDescription
lemmastringRequiredDictionary form of the word.

Up to 60 characters.

langstringOptionalDefaults to Greek for Greek letters, otherwise Latin.

One of la, grc.

limitintegerOptionalExample sentences, at most 50.

Default 10. From 1 to 50.

Output

structuredContent has these fields, and content repeats the same JSON as one text item.

Output fields
NameDescription
lemmastringThe headword asked for.
langstringLanguage code: la (Latin) or grc (Ancient Greek).

One of la, grc.

entriesarray of objectEach headword spelling found, with the meanings it had in context.
5 fields
entries fields
lemmastring
entrystring or null
uposstring
glossesarray of string
countinteger
occurrencesarray of object
11 fields
occurrences fields
formstring
lemmastring
uposstring
featsstring
glossstring
sentencestring
translationstring
citationstring
urlstringAbsolute URL.
apistringAbsolute URL.
licensestring
creditsarray of stringCredit lines for the editions quoted above.
notestring

The same reads as GET /api/v1/words, with the same shape.

Example call

{
  "lemma": "arma"
}

Example output

structuredContent
{
  "lemma": "arma",
  "lang": "la",
  "entries": [
    {
      "lemma": "arma",
      "entry": "arma, armōrum n. pl.",
      "upos": "NOUN",
      "glosses": [
        "arms",
        "the arms"
      ],
      "count": 2
    }
  ],
  "occurrences": [
    {
      "form": "Arma",
      "lemma": "arma",
      "upos": "NOUN",
      "feats": "Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur",
      "gloss": "arms",
      "sentence": "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris\nItaliam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit\nlitora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto\nvi sup…",
      "translation": "I sing of arms and a man, who first, an exile by fate, came from the shores of Troy to Italy and the Lavinian shores, that man having been t…",
      "citation": "Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–11",
      "url": "https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/read/latin/virgil-aeneid",
      "api": "https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/api/v1/passages/latin/virgil-aeneid",
      "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
    },
    {
      "form": "arma",
      "lemma": "arma",
      "upos": "NOUN",
      "feats": "Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur",
      "gloss": "the arms",
      "sentence": "et Pompei Crassique potentia cito in Caesarem, Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere, qui cuncta discordiis civilibus fessa nomine p…",
      "translation": "And the power of Pompey and Crassus quickly passed to Caesar, and the arms of Lepidus and Antony passed to Augustus, who received all things…",
      "citation": "Tacitus, Annales 1.1",
      "url": "https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/read/latin/tacitus-annals",
      "api": "https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/api/v1/passages/latin/tacitus-annals",
      "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    "Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–11. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: J. B. Greenough, Gin…",
    "Tacitus, Annales 1.1. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: C. D. Fisher, Oxford…"
  ],
  "note": "From stored analyses only: the graded passages and the library sections readers have opened. Accents, breathings and macrons are ignored whe…"
}