A statistical analysis sorting Romanian words by etymological source carried out by Macrea (1961)[REF] based on the DLRM[REF] (49,649 words) showed the following makeup:[REF] .
If the analysis is restricted to a core vocabulary of 2,500 frequent, semantically rich and productive words, then the Latin inheritance comes first, followed by Romance and classical Latin neologisms, whereas the Slavic borrowings come third.