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. Category pages for this template are created by {{auto cat}}.

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 {{l}} and {{m}}.

The following parameters are optional:

|5=, |t=

A gloss/translation for the term; see {{l}} and {{m}}.

|lit=

A literal translation for the term; see {{l}} and {{m}}.

|tr=

A transliteration for the term; see {{l}} and {{m}}.

|pos=

A part of speech indication for the term; see {{l}} and {{m}}.

|id=

A sense id to link to. See {{senseid}}.

|nocap=

When nocap=1, show the initial text with a lowercase initial letter: “transliteration of”.

|notext=

When notext=1, omit the initial text “Transliteration of” altogether. The first thing displayed will be the source language name.