Now your iPhone speaks Ancient Greek

This is the 21st century. You don’t need to lug around a 6-pound tome of a dictionary. You don’t need to waste time flipping through pages to find the entry you want, then waste even more time finding the relevant information in the entry. You especially don’t need to ruin your eyes by staring at column after column of teeny-tiny print.

Lexiphanes is fast and simple. Just enter a word in Greek and get results immediately. No more licking your finger to turn the page.

A great recipe: Greek two ways

Lexiphanes is based on the Perseus Project’s transcriptions of two different Greek lexica now in the public domain: the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon and Autenrieth’s Homeric Lexicon. You can use these dictionaries for free through the Perseus Project’s website, but Lexiphanes gives you a friendly, familiar iPhone interface. Plus you don’t need to have Internet access to do lookups. [Monks and hermits, I'm looking at you -- seriously!]

Latin keyboard, Greek text

You can enter text in Lexiphanes one of two ways. The first is to enable your built-in Greek keyboard and use that; the second is to use the old-fashioned Beta Code system for transcribing Greek text using the Latin character set. Instructions on both are provided from within Lexiphanes.

Short definitions

Lexiphanes shows you a “short definition” for most words in case you’re in a hurry and all you need is a gloss. Most are automatically generated from the text of the dictionary, so if you find one that doesn’t look right, help make everyone’s experience better by correcting it. Your corrections will be featured in updates to Lexiphanes.

Bookmarks

If you find yourself going back to the same entries over and over, Lexiphanes lets you bookmark entries and return to them in a hurry.

Numeral Conversion

Lexiphanes converts between Roman and regular (Arabic) numerals. Just type a number in either format into the converter; if it’s recognized Lexiphanes will give you the conversion.

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