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@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ A speedy, offline, command-line dictionary based on Wiktionary. 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 -------- 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. |