How can I look up an english dictionary in python?

Question

I am developing a Python program in order to find the etymology of words in a text. I have found out there are basically two options: parsing an online dictionary that provides etymology or using an API. I found this reply here but I don't seem to understand how to link the Oxford API with my Python program.

Can anyone explain me how to look up a word in an english dictionary? Thank you in advance.

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Note that while WordNet does not have all English words, what about the Oxford English Dictionary? ( http://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/ ). Depending on the scope of your project, it could be a killer API. Have you tried looking at Grady Ward's Moby? [link] ( http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/ ). You could add it as a lexicon in NLTK (see notes on "Loading your own corpus" in Section 2.1).

 from nltk.corpus import PlaintextCorpusReader corpus_root = '/usr/share/dict' wordlists = PlaintextCorpusReader(corpus_root, '.*') 

 from nltk.corpus import BracketParseCorpusReader corpus_root = r"C:\\corpora\\penntreebank\\parsed\\mrg\\wsj" file_pattern = r".*/wsj_.*\\.mrg" ptb = BracketParseCorpusReader(corpus_root, file_pattern) 

Answer 1

You could use the opensource ety package. Disclosure: I'm a contributor to the project

It's based on the data used in the research " Etymological Wordnet: Tracing the History of Words ", which has already been pre-scraped from Wiktionary .

Some examples:

>>> import ety

>>> ety.origins("potato")
[Word(batata, language=Taino)]

>>> ety.origins('drink', recursive=True)
[Word(drync, language=Old English (ca. 450-1100)),
 Word(drinken, language=Middle English (1100-1500)),
 Word(drincan, language=Old English (ca. 450-1100))]

>>> print(ety.tree('aerodynamically'))
aerodynamically (English)
├── -ally (English)
└── aerodynamic (English)
    ├── aero- (English)
    │   └── ἀήρ (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
    └── dynamic (English)
        └── dynamique (French)
            └── δυναμικός (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
                └── δύναμις (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
                    └── δύναμαι (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

Answer 2

使用PyDictionary可能是一个不错的选择