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Baris Yildirim

Dartmouth ’25 · Computer Science & Classics · Editor at antiq.ai

I graduated from Dartmouth in 2025 with a degree in Computer Science and Classics. I am building this app to become a resource for people who want to learn Latin and read these voices from a couple millennia away, as I was one of those people.

antiq starts with a simple observation. Latin, as a dead language, is as solvable as it is. The corpus is closed, the grammar is finite, and the rules don't drift the way they do in living languages. So if you start from the more deterministic word-level data we can get at, the lemmas, the dictionary entries, the attested forms, the layers above fall out: morphology, then syntax, then meaning.

From there, what I'm building toward is something like a graph of Latin knowledge. Every token in the corpus carrying its full context: a morphology, a grammar, the same word as the same author used it elsewhere, as writers of the same period used it, as writers a century later used it. Every token bound to its neighbors by syntax. Every claim, every example, every translation choice tracing back to that graph.

I also edit it. The framework that holds the composition to its sources is mine, and so is the responsibility for what's published under my byline.

See How antiq's grammar pages are made for the full editorial process: source, composition, review.

More at barisyildirim.com.

Topics I've reviewed (146)

  • Ablative Absolute
  • Ablative Case
  • Ablative of Accompaniment
  • Ablative of Agent
  • Ablative of Cause
  • Ablative of Comparison
  • Ablative of Manner
  • Ablative of Means
  • Ablative of Place from Which
  • Ablative of Separation
  • Ablative of Specification (Respect)
  • Ablative of Time When & Within Which
  • Ablative with Special Deponent Verbs
  • Accusative Case
  • Accusative Direct Object
  • Accusative of Extent & Duration
  • Adjectives (Syntax)
  • Adjectives: Form Notes
  • Adverbs
  • Agreement (Concord)
  • Cases: How Latin Builds Sentences
  • Causal Clauses
  • Circumstantial Participle
  • Clauses of Doubting (Quīn / Quōminus)
  • Cognate Accusative
  • Comparison of Adjectives (Forms)
  • Compound Words
  • Concessive Clauses
  • Conditional Sentences
  • Conditions in Indirect Discourse
  • Conjugation: The Verb System
  • Conjunctions
  • Contrary-to-Fact Conditions
  • Cum Clauses
  • Dactylic Hexameter (Vergil's Meter)
  • Dative Case
  • Dative of Agent
  • Dative of Possession
  • Dative of Purpose & Double Dative
  • Dative with Adjectives
  • Dative with Compound Verbs
  • Dative with Special Verbs
  • Declension: General Rules
  • Defective & Indeclinable Nouns
  • Deliberative Subjunctive
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Deponent Verbs
  • Derivation of Adjectives
  • Derivation of Nouns
  • Derivation of Verbs
  • Elision and Hiatus
  • Exclamatory Accusative
  • Fearing Clauses
  • Fifth Declension
  • First & Second Declension Adjectives
  • First Conjugation Paradigm
  • First Declension
  • Fourth Conjugation Paradigm
  • Fourth Declension
  • Future Conditions (Vivid & Less Vivid)
  • Future Participle
  • Genitive Case
  • Genitive of Description (Quality)
  • Genitive of Value & Price
  • Genitive with Adjectives
  • Genitive with Verbs (Memory, Charge, Feeling)
  • Gerund vs Gerundive
  • Gerund, Gerundive & Supine
  • Greek Accusative (of Respect)
  • Historical Present
  • Hortatory & Jussive Subjunctive
  • Ictus, Caesura & Diaeresis
  • Imperative Mood
  • Imperfect: Continuous, Habitual & Inceptive
  • Impersonal Verbs
  • Indefinite Pronouns
  • Indirect Commands
  • Indirect Discourse
  • Indirect Questions
  • Indirect Reflexive (sē / suus pointing OUT)
  • Indirect Statement: Forming Acc + Inf
  • Infinitive Mood
  • Inflection: How Latin Words Carry Meaning
  • Interjections & Emphatic Particles
  • Irregular Verbs
  • Irregular, Defective, and Impersonal Verbs
  • Measures, Money & the Roman Calendar
  • Moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, Imperative, Infinitive
  • Negative Particles
  • Numerals
  • Objective Genitive
  • Optative Subjunctive
  • Participles (Syntax)
  • Partitive Genitive
  • Passive Periphrastic (Obligation)
  • Passive Voice
  • Perfect Passive Participle
  • Possessive Genitive
  • Potential Subjunctive
  • Prepositions
  • Present Active Participle
  • Primary & Secondary Tenses (Sequence of Tenses)
  • Primary Suffixes (Word Formation)
  • Pronoun Use: Patterns & Quirks
  • Pronouns: Form Survey
  • Prosody Glossary
  • Purpose Clauses (Final)
  • Questions: Direct & Indirect
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Relative Clause of Characteristic
  • Relative Clause of Purpose
  • Relative Pronouns
  • Result Clauses
  • Rhythm: How Latin Verse Moves
  • Roots, Stems & Bases
  • Second Conjugation
  • Second Declension
  • Sequence of Tenses
  • Sounds, Spelling & Pronunciation
  • Special Uses of Prepositions
  • Subjunctive in Main Clauses
  • Subordinate Clauses (Other Types)
  • Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse
  • Substantive Clauses
  • Supine
  • Syntactic Figures & Style
  • Syntax: Orientation
  • Temporal Clauses
  • Tenses in Indirect Discourse
  • Tenses: Meaning & Use
  • The Four Principal Parts
  • The Locative Case
  • Third Conjugation Paradigm
  • Third Declension Adjectives
  • Third Declension Nouns: Family Overview
  • Third-iō Conjugation Paradigm
  • Time & Place Constructions
  • Two Accusatives
  • Variable & Heteroclite Nouns
  • Verb Syntax: Edge Cases
  • Verbal Adjectives (Derivational)
  • Verbs: Syntactic Roadmap
  • Versification & Meters
  • Vowel Quantity and Syllable Length
  • Word Formation: Orientation
  • Word Order in Latin