Latin-English dictionary programm written by William Whitaker.
A effect of the program is to derive the structure and meaning of individual Latin words. A procedure was devised to:
* examine the ending of a word,
* compare it with the standard endings,
* derive the possible stems that could be consistent,
* compare those stems with a dictionary of stems,
* eliminate those for which the ending is inconsistent with the dictionary stem (e.g., a verb ending with a noun dictionary item),
* if unsuccessful, it tries with a large set of prefixes and suffixes, and various tackons (e.g., -que),
* finally it tries various "dirty tricks" (e.g., "ae" may be replaced by "e", inp by imp, syncope, etc.),
* and it reports any resulting matches as possible interpretations.