Turn English into Classical Latin with the case endings in the right places, or paste a line of Caesar, Cicero or Virgil and read it in plain English. One box, both directions, free for everyday use.
Latin was the language of Rome, and its Classical form - the Latin of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil in the 1st century BC - is what this translator writes by default. It never really left: it lives on in law (habeas corpus), medicine, the scientific names of every plant and animal, school and family mottos, and the Catholic Church, and it is the parent of Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. Latin is highly inflected - word endings, not word order, tell you who did what to whom - which is exactly why word-for-word tools get it wrong and a context-aware AI does much better.
Greetings a Roman would actually use, plus the mottos everyone quotes. Macrons (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū) mark long vowels - Romans did not write them, but they help you pronounce. The guide uses restored Classical pronunciation: v sounds like w, c is always hard like k.
Most free tools treat Latin like a code to swap word by word. translator.im reads the whole sentence, works out who is doing what, and picks the ending that grammar demands.
Subjects go in the nominative, direct objects in the accusative, and adjectives agree with their nouns in gender, number and case - the things that make Latin read as Latin.
The same box handles both directions. Use the swap button to flip from writing Latin to reading it - no separate page needed.
Output follows Classical usage unless you ask for Ecclesiastical or Medieval Latin, which is handy for hymns, liturgy and older manuscripts.
Image mode recognises printed Latin in a photo or screenshot - a textbook page, a plaque, a coat of arms - so you can translate it without retyping. Clear print works best; worn stone carving is hit and miss.
Voice mode lets you say the English sentence out loud in Chrome, Edge or Safari, then turns the transcript into Latin.
Copy the Latin with one tap, or use Listen to hear it read aloud. Few devices ship a dedicated Latin voice, so treat the audio as an approximation and lean on the pronunciation guide above.
From family crests to Latin class, here is where an English to Latin translator earns its keep.
Clubs, schools, families and fantasy kingdoms all want a Latin motto. Get a grammatical draft in seconds, then polish it.
Compare your own answer with a clean translation and spot which ending went wrong - the classic first-year sentence below is a good test.
Paste a line from a set text and get a plain-English rendering to check your understanding before class.
Contracts, case law, medical notes and species names are full of Latin. Translate the phrase and see what it literally says.
Latin rewards precision. Three small habits make a big difference.
Latin has to know who is doing what, so fragments like "love forever" force a guess. Write "I will love you forever" instead and you get a clear answer: Tē semper amābō.
Commands change with the number of people: "Never give up" to one person is Numquam cēde, to a team it is Numquam cēdite. Gender matters too - mention whether a motto is about a man, a woman or a group.
The default is Classical Latin. If you want Church Latin for a hymn or a Medieval flavour for a manuscript, say so in the text and the vocabulary and spelling will follow.
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