latin_search
Look a Latin word up
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Look a Latin word up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus full
declension/conjugation tables — attested content, not invented. Any form of
the word works; an inflected query is resolved to its lemma automatically
(via previously cached paradigms or the Morpheus analyzer) and the result
notes the resolution. With search_language='eng' the query is an English
word instead: the result lists its per-sense Latin equivalents (the
translations block) plus their expanded entries. Returns Markdown plus the
same result as structuredContent matching the declared outputSchema.
Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live upstream
politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error, wait a few
seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org (CC BY-SA 4.0 —
attribute and share alike if republished).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Latin (default): a SINGLE word, any form — an inflected form ('amavit') is resolved to its lemma ('amo') automatically, and the result names it (search_method tells you how; resolved_lemma is the lemma to follow for the full paradigm); macrons are optional ('amo' and 'amō' both work). English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Latin equivalents you want — multiword entries like 'give up' work. |
| search_language | any | no | Language the query word is in: 'lat' (default) looks the Latin word up directly; 'eng' finds the Latin equivalents of an English word (per-sense, from Wiktionary's translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way. |
| include_forms | boolean | no | When true (default), each match's full declension/conjugation table is returned INLINE — usable cases/tenses in ONE call, no follow-up latin_get_inflections. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded Latin entries; the per-sense translations list itself is always returned. |
| max_forms | any | no | Optional override for how many inflection tables to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each table is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"SearchLanguage": {
"description": "The query language. ``lat`` looks a Latin word up directly (any of its forms —\nan inflected query resolves via the form index or Morpheus). ``eng`` searches in\nreverse: the English Wiktionary page for the query word lists per-sense Latin\ntranslations, and each distinct Latin lemma is then looked up normally.",
"enum": [
"lat",
"eng"
],
"title": "SearchLanguage",
"type": "string"
}
},
"properties": {
"query": {
"description": "The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Latin (default): a SINGLE word, any form — an inflected form ('amavit') is resolved to its lemma ('amo') automatically, and the result names it (search_method tells you how; resolved_lemma is the lemma to follow for the full paradigm); macrons are optional ('amo' and 'amō' both work). English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Latin equivalents you want — multiword entries like 'give up' work.",
"maxLength": 80,
"minLength": 1,
"title": "Query",
"type": "string"
},
"search_language": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/SearchLanguage",
"default": "lat",
"description": "Language the query word is in: 'lat' (default) looks the Latin word up directly; 'eng' finds the Latin equivalents of an English word (per-sense, from Wiktionary's translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way."
},
"include_forms": {
"default": true,
"description": "When true (default), each match's full declension/conjugation table is returned INLINE — usable cases/tenses in ONE call, no follow-up latin_get_inflections. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded Latin entries; the per-sense translations list itself is always returned.",
"title": "Include Forms",
"type": "boolean"
},
"max_forms": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maximum": 12,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Optional override for how many inflection tables to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each table is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default.",
"title": "Max Forms"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"title": "latin_searchArguments",
"type": "object"
}