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 Inspired by the excellent [thesauromatic](https://github.com/cjrh/thesauromatic).
 
+Usage
+-----
+
+```bash
+[apropos@arch ~]$ dictionarium dictionarium
+Latin
+Etymology
+Renaissance Latin, from noun of action dictiō ("speaking") + ārium, from dīcō ("say, speak"). First attested in 1481.
+Noun
+dictiōnārium -1. dictionary
+Usage notes
+• Used especially in book titles, normally with adjective like Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum ("Latin-Portuguese Dictionary"), Dictionarium Latinogermanicum/Latino-Germanicum ("Latin-German Dictionary")
+```
+
 Building
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 The environment variables `index_path` and `dictionary_path` must be set to the locations of a complete multistream bz2 index and archive from the [Wiktionary dumps](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/), not included here as they're several gigabytes.