Peter
Bostock's Home Page
Welcome to Pagina domestica linguae Latinae botanices
****A Botanical Latin Home
Page ****
About Me
I'm a botanist with a special interest in ferns, a
Botanical Latin enthusiast
and a long-time programmer hence the Botanical Latin programs
TRANSLAT and LATIN which are available below.....
TRANSLAT.EXE converts botanical Latin to English, LATIN.EXE generates
declined Latin from Latin dictionary forms.
Initial instructions and TRANSLAT
Detailed Information
Get TRANINST.EXE (TRANSLAT v. 4.13, LATIN v. 2.15)
(MSDos self extr. zip 532Kbytes)**
or TRANZIP.EXE (as above, but WinZip8-based self extracter
587K)
AND (2) MISCDATA.EXE (176Kbytes), containing only Examples
and English-to-Latin dictionary file
*Updated data files plus changes and bug
fixes to TRANSLAT.EXE and LATIN.EXE
** programs updated August 14, 2004; data last updated September 9, 2004
Some of my favourite links.........
I recommend a visit to the Internet Directory of Botany . The Latin Grammar Aid and
Wordlist is a useful link for Latin, as is the iLoveLanguages Page. Detailed
explanations of (species) epithets are available at the Dictionary of
Botanical Epithets site. For a bit of light relief, see Doug Yanega's personal home
page for oddities of zoological and botanical nomenclature.
Thelypteris confluens, Stradbroke Island, southern Queensland,
Australia: the confirmed Australian distribution of this fern consists of two
sites in Queensland, and one in southern Victoria.
Email me if you have problems with TRANSLAT, or
want to talk about ferns (see email address in the image >>>>>)
Last Modified: Sept 25, 2004
Author: Peter D. Bostock
Adiantum hispdiulum var. whitei, photographed in the
Anstead area about 18 km W of Brisbane. (© P. Bostock 2005)
Constructed with Netscape Composer
4. 6.2 and 7.1, and Microsoft Word 2000
number of accesses since Aug 27,
2006