By James B Greenough, J. H. Allen, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge
This sourcebook's three-part therapy begins with phrases and varieties, masking components of speech, declensions, and conjugations. the second one half, syntax, explores circumstances, moods, and tenses. The concluding part bargains details on archaic usages, Latin verse, and prose composition, between different matters. vast appendixes characteristic a word list of phrases and indexes. scholars of historical past, faith, and literature will locate lasting worth during this modestly priced version of a vintage advisor to Latin.
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Snow; ānser (for †hānser), Eng. goose. —From these cases of kindred words in Latin and English must be carefully distinguished those cases in which the Latin word has been taken into English either directly or through some one of the modern descendants of Latin, especially French. Thus faciō is kindred with Eng. do, but from the Latin participle (factum) of this verb comes Eng. fact, and from the French descendant (fait) of factum comes Eng. feat. THE PARTS OF SPEECH 20. Words are divided into eight Parts of Speech: Nouns, Adjectives (including Participles), Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections.
Final -i, -o, -u of inflection are always long; final -a is short, except in the Ablative singular of the first declension; final -e is long in the first and fifth declensions, short in the second and third. Final -is and -us are long in plural cases. Case-endings of the Five Declensions 39. The regular Case-endings of the several declensions are the following:—20 FIRST DECLENSION (ā-STEMS) 40. The Stem of nouns of the First Declension ends in ā-. The Nominative ending is -a (the stem-vowel shortened), except in Greek nouns.
Thus,— heus, halloo! ō, oh! —Interjections sometimes express an emotion which affects a person or thing mentioned, and so have a grammatical connection like other words: as, vae victis, woe to the conquered (alas for the conquered)! INFLECTION 21. Latin is an inflected language. Inflection is a change made in the form of a word to show its grammatical relations. a. Inflectional changes sometimes take place in the body of a word, or at the beginning, but oftener in its termination:— vox, a voice; vōcis, of a voice; vocō, I call; vocat, he calls; vocet, let him call; vocāvit, he has called; tangit, he touches; tetigit, he touched.