| This particular list is taken from "The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings", by Paul Bernard Diederich, PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1939. The introduction notes that "This count is based on 202,158 words in selections from over two hundred Latin authors, from Ennius to Erasmus." (As the source link shows, the thesis and its appendices are available at the same website that houses William Whitaker's "Words" program, an extremely useful dictionary, as any Latin student surely knows!). I've tried to be as helpful as possible with the alternate answers. Generally all the noun/pronoun/adjective declensions are acceptable (Diederich listed them by their nominative forms), and the infinitive and first and third person singular forms of the present tense for the verbs. Sometimes this means you will get more than one answer at a time, because I did not think it was fair to make people guess a dative form separately from an accusative form the same word. Adverbs and prepositions have only one possible answer each. I'm sure this is not the only Latin frequency list, but it seemed to be the most useful, the most academic, and the most diverse (that I could find, anyway). |
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