Template:transliteration/documentation

A template to be used in the etymology section, when a word is the transliteration of a word in another language.

This template places words in categories like Category:English transliterations of Ancient Greek terms, which is a subcategory of Category:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek.

Parameters
The following parameters are required:
 * 1
 * The language into which the term was transliterated.


 * 2
 * The language from which the term was transliterated.

One of the following two parameters should be provided, or a prompt [Term?] will display:
 * 3
 * The transliterated term.


 * 4, alt
 * An alternative display form to show for the term; see and.

The following parameters are optional:
 * 5, t
 * A gloss/translation for the term; see and.


 * lit
 * A literal translation for the term; see and.


 * tr
 * A transliteration for the term; see and.


 * pos
 * A part of speech indication for the term; see and.


 * id
 * A sense id to link to. See.


 * nocap
 * When, show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter: “transliteration of”.


 * notext
 * When, omit the initial text “Transliteration of” altogether. The first thing displayed will be the source language name.