It’s always surprised me that search engines don’t point to Wiktionary by default, and in fact usually don’t show it in search results on the first page.
Over the years, it has gotten better and better and now is an almost universal resource on all word forms. You see a word and don’t know what it means? You put it in the search bar at Wiktionary and the site will figure out it is the second person aorist of the passive voice of the Ancient Greek verb kataminomai, used only between the second and third centuries in the Hellenistic colonies of Mars. Made up example, of course, but the quality of the information is insane.
For the Kindle versions (yeah I still got one, I know, but not tossing a functional device!) that’s the .mobi I presume? And how do I install that as a proper new dictionary? Does it auto-recognize that if I just copy it in the main folder?
"On my Kindle (Paperwhite, 11th gen), the dictionaries are held in the “\documents\dictionaries” subfolder (I kept my firmware to an older version to keep my USB connection).
When I bought them online (on Amazon, see Kindle Default Dictionaries category), I received pre-made MOBI files that I only had to place in the aforementioned subfolder, without converting them to other file formats.
Afterwards, I set up my default dictionaries for every language on my Kindle in Settings → Language & Dictionaries → Dictionaries.
Hope that helped. "
Just a reminder that
https://www.wiktionary.org/
Exists, and is part of the Wikimedia foundation
It’s always surprised me that search engines don’t point to Wiktionary by default, and in fact usually don’t show it in search results on the first page.
Over the years, it has gotten better and better and now is an almost universal resource on all word forms. You see a word and don’t know what it means? You put it in the search bar at Wiktionary and the site will figure out it is the second person aorist of the passive voice of the Ancient Greek verb kataminomai, used only between the second and third centuries in the Hellenistic colonies of Mars. Made up example, of course, but the quality of the information is insane.
Double reminder that local offline copies of wiktionary.org dictionaries are available in Stardict, Tabfile and Kindle formats for download here: https://github.com/Vuizur/Wiktionary-Dictionaries
For the Kindle versions (yeah I still got one, I know, but not tossing a functional device!) that’s the
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Reminder? This is how I found out at all!