Scriba (Latin Dictionary)

Name: Scriba (Latin Dictionary)
Rating: 4.4 (12 reviews)
Author: Dominique CADIET

Education

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

12 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Dominique CADIET
Language

EN
English
Size

128.3
MB

Scriba is a great tool to learn Latin. It features : - Lewis and Short's Latin-English dictionary (50 000 entries) - Cassell's Latin Dictionary (clear and shorter explanations for about 20 000 entries) - declensions and conjugations for most of the entries - a Latin word parser - Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar - an English-Latin lexicon (free version) - Smith & Hall's English-Latin Dictionary (full version) - full text search in Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary - a Document reader which allows you to look up words in the database - Flashcards to learn new words

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

12 Ratings

Best of the Latin Dictionaries for Apple Devices
02/03/2022

ArsAstronautica
With the demise of SPQR support, Scriba is a worthy successor. Has inflected form search, English-> Latin search, declension and conjugation info, has the Lewis & Short as a basis, and a number of other nice features. I've run it on iPhone, iPad, and iMac (M1). The only real complaint I have is that you cannot copy/paste from the dictionary. And when switching the search method, it clears the search term.
Best of the Latin Dictionaries for Apple Devices
02/03/2022

ArsAstronautica

With the demise of SPQR support, Scriba is a worthy successor. Has inflected form search, English-> Latin search, declension and conjugation info, has the Lewis & Short as a basis, and a number of other nice features. I've run it on iPhone, iPad, and iMac (M1). The only real complaint I have is that you cannot copy/paste from the dictionary. And when switching the search method, it clears the search term.
Clunky but worth the developer fixing its bugs
04/27/2025

BROwithsickFLO
A very enjoyable resource with the default files and flash cards. When loading in text, PDF, or ePUB files the reader is extremely slow, close to a non-functional reader if not actually non-functional. The flash card portion however still contains bugs, and the app frequently crashes when navigating the documents tab (particularly when exiting a file or tap-searching a word within a loaded file). Further, files are extremely slow to load in the documents tab.
Clunky but worth the developer fixing its bugs
04/27/2025

BROwithsickFLO

A very enjoyable resource with the default files and flash cards. When loading in text, PDF, or ePUB files the reader is extremely slow, close to a non-functional reader if not actually non-functional. The flash card portion however still contains bugs, and the app frequently crashes when navigating the documents tab (particularly when exiting a file or tap-searching a word within a loaded file). Further, files are extremely slow to load in the documents tab.
Excellent app
Jan 16

Skorng
In an earlier review, I complained about how I didn’t see any improvements in the update, and how it introduced an annoying issue. It hasn’t even been a week since then and the issue has been fixed. I’d like to thank the devs for being so responsive, I’ll continue using this app for years to come.
Excellent app
Jan 16

Skorng

In an earlier review, I complained about how I didn’t see any improvements in the update, and how it introduced an annoying issue. It hasn’t even been a week since then and the issue has been fixed. I’d like to thank the devs for being so responsive, I’ll continue using this app for years to come.
Excellent app. Bug on macOS fixed in update.
08/28/2024

next m
Excellent app on both iOS and macOS. Very helpful for Latin students, especially "Analysis" feature. Developer responded promptly to fix problem reported in previous version of this review.
Excellent app. Bug on macOS fixed in update.
08/28/2024

next m

Excellent app on both iOS and macOS. Very helpful for Latin students, especially "Analysis" feature. Developer responded promptly to fix problem reported in previous version of this review.

- morphological analysis is called either by pressing the return button of the keyboard, or by adding ? to the inflected form - other small UI improvements