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Word Frequencies in Latin and Greek


Frequencies for cano

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Maximum Minimum Weighted

Corpus Words Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K

Latin Texts 3405121 1047 3.07 193 0.57 528.33 1.55

Latin Prose 2803118 642 2.29 117 0.42 319.08 1.14

Latin Poetry 602003 405 6.73 76 1.26 209.25 3.48

Archimedes Project Texts 311648 4 0.13 0 0 0.83 0.03

Latin Drama 215926 29 1.34 1 0.05 10.58 0.49

DDBDP Latin Texts 43780 2 0.46 0 0 0.75 0.17

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Augustus	2619	0	0	0	0	0	0
Boethius	24550	11	4.48	4	1.63	6.83	2.78
Caesar	83674	3	0.36	0	0	1	0.12
Catullus	12857	14	10.89	4	3.11	8.58	6.68
Cicero	760420	43	0.57	4	0.05	21.08	0.28
Horace	30754	30	9.75	3	0.98	14.75	4.80
Livy	159131	26	1.63	7	0.44	16.08	1.01
Lucan	53092	37	6.97	8	1.51	20.75	3.91
Lucretius	49039	19	3.87	6	1.22	11.58	2.36
Nepos	28421	1	0.35	1	0.35	1	0.35
Ovid	140275	131	9.34	23	1.64	66.33	4.73
Phaedrus	11575	35	30.24	0	0	9	7.78
Plautus	165242	23	1.39	0	0	8.17	0.49
Pliny the Elder	394738	233	5.90	16	0.41	87.17	2.21
Pliny the Younger	66549	6	0.90	0	0	2.67	0.40
Sallust	31907	5	1.57	0	0	2.33	0.73
Servius	286379	120	4.19	23	0.80	62.83	2.19
Suetonius	70353	15	2.13	1	0.14	7.08	1.01
Sulpicia	536	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tacitus	162013	31	1.91	7	0.43	19	1.17
Terence	50684	6	1.18	1	0.20	2.42	0.48
Vergil	83565	108	12.92	30	3.59	66.42	7.95
Vitruvius	57639	6	1.04	1	0.17	2.75	0.48
Vulgate	650420	140	2.15	53	0.81	88.50	1.36