This Latin frequency dictionary is designed to help students prioritise their language learning by highlighting the most common words they are likely to find. It was produced by assembling 1.5 million words from classical authors such as Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Martial, Ovid, and Suetonius, Virgil, parsing each word to find the root meaning, then translating that meaning into English.
From that list we pulled out just over 15,000 unique words, of which almost half were used only five times or fewer. Out of a body of 1.5 million words, clearly it's not worth investing much time to learn words that are used so rarely, so we whittled our word list down to the 5000 most frequent words – the words that appear most commonly in ancient texts.
This book gives you all 5000 of the most frequently used Latin words, along with their English translations.
From that list we pulled out just over 15,000 unique words, of which almost half were used only five times or fewer. Out of a body of 1.5 million words, clearly it's not worth investing much time to learn words that are used so rarely, so we whittled our word list down to the 5000 most frequent words – the words that appear most commonly in ancient texts.
This book gives you all 5000 of the most frequently used Latin words, along with their English translations.
