Basic statistics regarding the TLL:
- ancient Latin vocabulary words: ca. 55,000 words
- 10,000,000 slips
- ca. 6,500 boxes
- ca. 1,500 slips per box
- library 32,000 volumes
- contributors: 375 scholars from 20 different countries
- 12 Indo-European specalists
- 8 Romance specialists
- 100 proof-readers
- ca. 44,000 words published
- published content: 70% of the entire vocabulary
- print run: 1,350
- Publisher: consortium of 35 academies from 27 countries on 5 continents
Longest remaining words:
- non / 37 boxes of ca 55,500 slips
- qui, quae, quod / 65 boxes of ca. 96,000 slips
- sum, esse, fui / 54.5 boxes of ca. 81,750 slips
- ut / 35 boxes of ca 52,500 slips
Note that some of these words have individual zettelkasten for themselves approaching the size of some of the largest personal collections we know about!
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