Template:la-decl-adj-table-m+f+n bgc/documentation

This template is designed to facilitate the attestation of Latin terms by automatically generating several  search queries for the inflected forms of a Latin, given only a small amount of information about the word’s stem and inflectional paradigm. It is a hybrid of the pre-existing templates and, with features added to generate a combined search query for every inflected form (“SEARCH ALL FORMS”) and to permit the unlinking of any given form or forms (intended to remove redundant queries for  forms). It is intended primarily for by other, more specialised templates (see below).

Parameters and functions
has seventy-two named parameters and no unnamed parameters; none of them are mandatory, but the template will generate nothing but a table of em dashes and a blank search query if all the parameters are left undefined. The following table shows the parameters’ locations:

The rationale underlying the parameters’ and the parameters’ functions are as follows.


 * ' — These are this template’s primary parameters. They are regularly designated by a three-letter abbreviation of the form’s ( inative,  itive,  ive,  usative,  ative, or  ative), connected by an  to a two-letter abbreviation of its  (  = singular;   = pl'ural), and tailed by another underscore that appends a one-letter abbreviation of its  ( asculine,  eminine, or  euter); this nomenclature is inherited from . If a given parameter is defined, the template produces a Google Books'' exact-phrase search query for the, the link to which is displayed with the text of the definiens (for example,   produces: ). If a given parameter is left undefined, the content of that parameter’s cell in the table is determined by that parameter’s equivalent secondary  parameter (in the case of  , its equivalent secondary parameter is  ).


 * et seqq. — These are this template’s secondary parameters. They are regularly designated by their equivalent primary parameters’ designations, suffixed with  (chosen to denote “no link”). Defining a given secondary parameter only has an effect if its equivalent primary parameter is left undefined; in such a scenario, the template displays the text of the definiens of that secondary parameter only (for example, if   is left undefined,   produces: aureolus). If both a given primary parameter and its equivalent secondary parameter are left undefined, the template displays an em dash in those parameters’ cell in the table (for example, if both   and   are left undefined, the cell at the intersection of the table’s first row and first column displays: —).

Beneath the table that it generates, this template invariably produces a Google Books search query, displaying “SEARCH ALL FORMS” in bold. That search query comprises exact-phrase search terms for all the defined primary parameters’, each separated from the next by , which functions like the Boolean operator  (for example, defining only  ,  , and   produces the search query:  , realised in the display as: ). Every defined primary parameter adds  to the search query, except for , whose definition adds only   to it.

Use of specialised templates
Because of the labour-intensive arduousness of defining thirty-six parameters (the number needed for a full ), it is recommended that this template be used for transclusion by other, more specialised templates, rather than as a direct search tool for attesting a given ; a specialised template can provide the inflectional paradigm, thereafter requiring only information about words’ stems to conduct useful searches. To save, please add any such template or templates you create to the list below: