Whitaker's Words Helper

This extension uses the wonderful program, designed by William Whitaker, to easily get detailed and accurate Latin definitions.
What is Whitaker's Words Helper?
Whitaker's Words Helper is a Chrome extension that seamlessly brings you detailed and accurate Latin definitions from the website designed by William Whitaker, without leaving the page you're working on. It allows you to look up single words or multiple words at once, and even provides the option to scan for dactylic hexameter. Experience the convenience of Whitaker's Words Helper while studying Latin!

Extension stats

By: FullBlown
Users: 340
Rating: 5.00 (6)
Version: 2.1.1 (Last updated: 2024-08-12)
Creation date: 2019-09-01
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size: 36.87K

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Extension summary

Update: The extension has been restored to full functionality and any new bugs will be dealt with as soon as possible. The development team apologizes for the app breaking.

As a Latin student myself I was often frustrated with constantly switching tabs to look up Latin vocabulary and I'm sure I wasn't the only one irritated by this. Wouldn't it be so much better if there was a way to look up words without switching tabs? This extension uses the wonderful application designed by the late William Whitaker (through a website set up by University Notre Dame) to seamlessly bring you Latin definitions while you're working, without ever needing you to leave the page you're working on. Carpe diem!

How To Use: Using this extension is incredibly easy, all you have to is double click on a word and the definition will appear. If you want to look up many words at once you can either drag-highlight the words and then right click and select 'Get definitions' from the Whitaker's Words Helper menu, or double click and drag. If you want to see only definitions, without the possible parts of speech, check the definitions only option. The Whitaker's Words Helper right click menu also has a 'Get scansion' option that will scan the selected text for dactylic hexameter. Finally, if you want to disable the extension, click on the icon in the top left, next to the search bar and click the toggle to disable the extension.

The original Whitaker's Words site can be found at https://latin-words.com. Copyright © 1993-2007 The scansion is provided by The Latin Macronizer at www.alatius.com/macronizer/. Copyright 2015-2021 Johan Winge.

User reviews

Latin Grade Saver.
by Andrew Xue, 2022-10-23

super helpful for latin class 10/10
by Sofya Gurel, 2019-03-21

So helpful. I wish I had this when I was taking Latin!
by Christopher Zhou, 2019-03-19
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