Etymologies and Ancient languages

Greetings everyone,

my work orients around having to read classical Greek and Latin, and looking up etymologies of different words. For basic quick searches, I appeal to wiktionary.org and their huge library definitions, however for more advanced contexts I might have to use something like LSJ.gr or BRILL Ancient dictionaries. I lack any technical ability but I’m curious if it would be possible to make accessible any etymological dictionaries, and lexicons of ancient languages on PopClip.

https://www.dictinfo.com

Any attention and contribution to solving this is greatly appreciated, thanks everyone!

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LSJ:

#popclip
name: Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon (LSJ)
description: Search Ancient Greek dictionaries
popclip version: 4151
icon: circle filled LSJ
url: https://lsj.gr/wiki/***

(The above block is an extension snippet – select it to install the extension with PopClip)

Try it out:

δημοκρατία
παρρησία

How do you access the The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online? I found no way to access it using some simple search query.

It is quite easy to build PopClip actions for other dictionary sites, have a look at Snippets — PopClip Developer.

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Okey…this was mind blowing, I’ll experiment a bit and report back

This is a very useful snippet. The LSJ site is very helpful because it has a lot of useful information. By any chance, how can I create a snippet that converts selected Greek into the Transliteration C format found on the LSJ site? It would be great if I could convert “δημοκρατία” to “dimokratia”.

[Edit] Downloaded BulgarianPhoneticLatinSwitcher.popclipextz extension and modified it for personal use. Thank you.