First Lessons in Latin ...Crocker & Brewster, 1845 |
Common terms and phrases
ablative accusative active voice adjectives adverbs amātus āre āri atis atque atum ātus sum au-di-tus Cæsar capio clause compounds conj conjugated cùm dative declined denoting deponent verb ejus English into Latin Epaminondas erat ĕre ĕri facio feminine fero form their genitive fratres fuit gender genitive gerunds hæc IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect indicative mood inis inquit ipse issimus Itum Josephus Latin into English loved malè masculine mihi mitto natus neut neuter nihil nominative nouns omnes onis ōris ōrum participle passive voice pater patrem Perf Plup Pluperfect Plur Plural præ prep preposition Pres pronouns puer quæ quàm qui'-bus quid Quis quod quum rec'-tus rectus relative clause Repeat the indicative Roman root rule sibi Sing Singular SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sunt super supine third thou Urbs verb verò vocative volo vowel
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Page 7 - 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 ; O, o...
Page 104 - 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 95 - When the nouns are of dilferent genders, 353. (1.) If they denote living things, the adjective is masculine rather than feminine ; as, Pater mihi et mater mortui sunt, My father and mother are dead.
Page 53 - Ye may be, 3. Sit, He may be ; Sint, They may be, Imperfect, might, could, would, or should,. 1. Essem, / might be, Essemus, We might be, 2.
Page 90 - 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 48 - The imperative mood is that form of the verb which is used in commanding, exhorting, or entreating ; as, ama, love thou.
Page 98 - Note VI. — When nominatives to the same verb are of different persons, the verb must be in the plural number, and must agree with the first person rather than the second, and with the second rather than the third : " My sister and I are daily employed in our respective occupations.
Page 60 - I shall have been loved, thou wilt have been loved, he will have been loved ; we shall have been loved, you will have been loved, they will have been loved. SUBJUNCTIVE . MODE Present tense If I be loved, if thou be loved, if he be loved, etc.
Page 60 - Мши hinl ft been loved, he had been loved ; we had been loved, ye had been loved, they had been loved. Future Perfect, shall have been. S. a-ma'-tus e'-ro or fu'-e-ro, a-ma'-tus e'-ris or fu'-e-ris, a-ma'-tus e'-rit or fu'-e-rit, P.
Page 93 - A sentence consisting of two or more propositions is called a compound sentence, and the propositions of which it is composed are called members or clauses. 335. What is the predicate of a proposition ? 536.