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Our work also takes the form of tools for readers. These projects bring the study of ancient texts and word histories into everyday use.

Latin & Ancient Greek

Interlinea

Read Latin and Ancient Greek with word-by-word explanations of forms, meanings, and sentence structure.

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Etymology & Language

Etymon

Explore word origins through visual histories, shared roots, and connections across languages.

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De Litteris

Papers & essays

IMay 27, 2026
De Litteris · I32 min read
De Suspensione
Inflection, Composition, and the Long Drift Outward
Three otherwise-heterogeneous historical movements share a common object: the Latin-to-Romance simplification, the digital externalization of memory, and the offloading of sentence production to generative AI. That common object — here named suspensio — is the inner act of composition, the specific mental work of holdi…
Rumi Elías Calleson RG
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IIMarch 7, 2025
De Litteris · II18 min read
PhiloBERTA
A Transformer-Based Cross-Lingual Analysis of Greek and Latin Lexicons
PhiloBERTA is a cross-lingual transformer model that measures semantic relationships between the ancient Greek and Latin lexicons. Using contextual embeddings and an angular similarity metric over term pairs drawn from the classical corpus, it finds that etymologically related pairs preserve their meaning far more tigh…
Rumi Elías Calles Makai L. Allbert
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