I am looking for a botanical translation site from latin to german and english.?

Question

I am looking for a botanical translation site from latin to german and english.?

Answer 1

Some times ago I looked for freeware or shareware "text translation Latin to German" and the results were more than terrible.

The difficulty is that there is no difference in words for the Latin cases etc and a translation has to include context and nearly to be interpretation to make sense.

Having this in mind I just looked for ratings of translation software and found good results for Babylon, a shareware.

I checked it out with nearly the same bad results:

For single words it works very quickly and also might be  good for simple daily use, but to translate a scientific text it`s insufficient.

There is also the fact that the most Latin botanical texts are old and sometimes written in a so called kitchen Latin, not following the rules of grammar and including phantasy-words.

In my mind there is no efficient software available and the best way should be to look for the translated text in the internet or in a book  or to ask an "old languishes expert", might be a teacher. Combination of his/her knowledge in language and yours in botany should obtain best results.

If you like to read about Babylon or to check it:

http://www.babylon.com/client/index.html