Simple Headword Search

Please report difficulties and bugs to Mark Olsen of the ARTFL Project, mark@gide.uchicago.edu.

"Floating Search" and Pattern Matching

The "Floating Search" option allows users to search for all words containing a particular string of letters. For example, searching for dies with the "Floating Search" option activated will find aequidies and meridies as well as dies .

Pattern matching allows more precise specification of a large number of words corresponding to a defined pattern. The search term fem.* will result in all of the words, in either a wordlist or as a search query, which begin with fem , for example, femen, femur, and femoralia . Similarly, the expression ca.*tio specifies all words beginning with ca and ending in tio , for example cachinnatio and calcatio .

The most commonly used regular expression operators used searches are:

. (period)               -- matches any single character;
.* (period asterisk)     -- matches any string of characters;
[a-z]  			 -- matches a single character found in the
specified range;