Wildcards
This tool supports single and multiple character wildcard searches.
A question mark '?' allows for single character wildcard search
For example, to search for "pater" or "mater" you can use the search:
?ater
An asterix '*' allows for 0, 1 or more characters to be replaced within a word.
For example, to search for "ater", "pater" or "frater", you can use the search:
*ater
Both the '?' and the '*' wildcard can be used at the beginning, the end or anywhere within the search term.
An ampersand '&' prepended to a word, will expand it to all other words that have the same lemma.
For example, to search for all forms of the lemma 'physicus', you can use the search:
&physicus
Results will include: physicus, phisica, ... but also: fysicus, fysica, ...
Search terms with an ampersand '&' may not include any other wildcards ('*' or '?').
Delimiter
When you want to display multiple graphs (series) on a single chart, please separate the search terms with a comma ','.
For example:
&Plato, &Aristoteles
Casing
Character casing will be ignored. It is not possible to distinguish between upper ad lower case.
For example:
Deus and deus will give the same results.
Usage
This application is provided for free to the scientific community to support the research and discovery of the Latin language throughout the centuries.
We hope that it can facilitate and enrich your study.
How can this application help you?
This tool will give you:
- The absolute and relative occurence of each word (or combination of words) in all of our full text Latin databases
- A means to visualize and compare occurences of different words in 1 graph
- See the evolution of the usage of words throughout the centuries
n-grams
“An n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n words from a given sequence of text”.
In this case, we took all the texts from all our Latin full text databases and stored each combination of 1, 2, 3 and 4 words.
After collecting all these n-grams, they were sorted and counted per century.
Eg.: The text “In primis concessisse Deo et hac presenti carta nostra ...” (First article of the Magna carta) resulted in:
| 1-grams | 2-grams | 3-grams | 4-grams |
| In | In primis | In primis concessisse | In primis concessisse Deo |
| primis | primis concessisse | primis concessisse Deo | primis concessisse Deo et |
| concessisse | concessisse Deo | concessisse Deo et | concessisse Deo et hac |
| deo | Deo et | Deo et hac | Deo et hac presenti |
| et | et hac | et hac presenti | et hac presenti carta |
| hac | hac presenti | hac presenti carta | hac presenti carta nostra |
| presenti | presenti carta | presenti carta nostra | presenti carta nostra ... |
| carta | carta nostra | carta nostra ... | carta nostra ... |
| nostra | nostra ... | nostra ... | nostra ... |
| ... | ... | ... | ... |
Absolute and relative occurence
Ocurrences are given as:
- absolute values: exact number of occurences of a word in a particular century
- relative values: calculated as a percentage of all n-grams in a particular century
Cross Database Searchtool
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The data for this project was generated from the Cross Database SearchTool.
This database includes all texts of:
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 | Library of Latin Text (Series A) |
 | Library of Latin Text (Series B) |
 | Monumenta Germaniae Historica |
 | Archive of Celtic Latin Literature |
 | Aristoteles Latinus Database |