Grammar of the Latin Language ...Crocker & Brewster, 1837 |
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ablative accusative active verb active voice adjectives adverbs atque au-di-tus Cæs Cæsar cæsura called catalectic clause commonly compounds change consonant cùm dactylic dative declined denoting deponent verbs derived ĕre ĕri expressed feminine form their genitive fuit future gender genitive genitive plural gerund grammatical Greek nouns hæc iambic imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect increment infinitive Latin latter loved masculine mihi mood neque neuter neuter verbs nihil nominative omitted opus Ovid passive voice penult Perf person Plaut Plin Plup pluperfect plur preceding predicate preposition Pres pronouns quæ quàm quid Quis quod rec'-tus REMARK rule Sall second root short signifying singular sometimes spondee subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sunt supine syllable tenses termination thing third conjugation third declension third root tibi tive trimeter trochee verse Virg vocative vowel words
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Page 1 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n...
Page 194 - The name of a town in which any thing is said to be, or to be done, if of the first or second declension and singular number, is put in the genitive; as, Habitat Mileti, He lives at Miletus.
Page 261 - Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like the Latins.
Page 1 - To the quantity of its syllables, and its versification. The first part is called Orthography ; the second, Orthoepy ; the third, Etymology ; the fourth, Syntax; and the fifth, Prosody.
Page 108 - Fut. rec-tu'-rus es'-se, to be about to rule. Pres. re'-gi, to be ruled. Perf. rec'-tus es'-se or fu-is'-se, to have been ruled. Fut. rec'-tum i'-ri, to be about to be ruled. PARTICIPLES.
Page 280 - In order to scan correctly, it is necessary to know the quantity of each syllable, and also to understand the following poetic usages, which are sometimes called FIGURES OF PROSODY.
Page 141 - Impersonal verbs are those which are used only in the third person singular, and do not admit of a personal subject. 1. Their English is generally preceded by the pronoun it, especially in the active voice ; as, délectât, it delights ; decet, it becomes ; contingit, it happens ; evenit, it happens ; scribitur, it is written, &.C.
Page 101 - Plur. a-mam'-i-ni, be ye loved, a-man'-tor, let them be loved. INFINITIVE MOOD. Present, a-ma'-ri, to be loved. Perfect, a-ma'-tus es'-se or fu-is'-se, to have been loved. Future, a-ma'-tum i'-ri, to be about to be loved PARTICIPLES. Perfect, a-ma'-tus, loved, or having been loved.
Page 39 - Dies, a day, is masculine or feminine in the singular, and always masculine in the plural ; meridies, mid-day, is masculine only EXCEPTIONS IN DECLENSION. The genitive and dative singular sometimes end in e ; as, die for dift.