Cicero, Divinatio in Caecilium — vocabulary load

How much vocabulary a student needs beyond the Dickinson (DCC) Latin Core 1000.

Total running words

5,818

Distinct headwords

~986

Known from core 1000

465

New words to learn

466

Distinct vocabulary in the speech

Known — in Dickinson core 1000 · 465 New — must learn · 466 Proper names (Verres, Sicilia…) · 55
465 known, 466 new to learn, 55 proper names.

Running-word coverage by the core 1000

84.8%
15.2%

A student who knows the core 1000 already understands roughly 85% of the words while reading — the 466 new headwords account for the remaining ~15%, and most appear only once or twice.

Method. Text: Perseus phi0474.phi004 (Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, 73 sections), apparatus / Greek / deleted text stripped. Core: DCC Latin Core Vocabulary (997 headwords). Lemmatisation via the Latin-macronizer morphological database (enclitics split; ambiguity resolved by corpus frequency; capitalisation used to route proper nouns, so Verrem → Verres, not the verb verro). Verification found 0 false misses and only 5 unrecognised token-forms, so the figure is robust to about ±5–10 headwords. Source: DCC Latin Core Vocabulary.