dictionarium

A speedy, offline, command-line dictionary based on Wiktionary.

Inspired by the excellent thesauromatic.

Usage

[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, not included here as they're several gigabytes. They are by default set to the last dumps from 2022 (2022-12-20), located in a top-level data/ folder.