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Was the suffix -eus productive during or after the Classical period? Did this change over time?
The use of the suffix -eus to create an adjective based on a noun was very common, and it denoted a relational sense — that is, being made of the noun or being like the noun in some way (a good ...
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What's the difference between "sacra" vs. "sancta" (adj.)?
What's the difference between the adjectives sacra and sancta? Don't they both mean holy or sacred?
For example, the St. Benedict medal says:
Crux sacra sit mihi lux.
Why not "Crux sancta"?...
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How can you tell genitive plural -um 3rd declension one-termination adjectives apart from those with a genitive plural in -ium?
'di?vites' is one-termination, with the stem 'di?vit-', and it has the genitive plural of 'di?vitum'. But 'pa?r' is one-termination, with the stem 'par-', and it has the genitive plural 'parium'. '...
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What is the use of 'circe?nsis' here? What does it mean, exactly?
I knew the phrase 'panem et circenses' and I was curious (recognising that 'panem' is accusative) about how it worked in the context that it had come from. Here is part of the passage, from Juvenal:
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Is the locative used with multi-part city names?
The Duolingo Latin course mentions New York a lot.
(I'd rather have it focused on the geography of ancient Italy than the modern US, but that's beside the point now.)
The locative comes up regularly: ...
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Why "magnum opus" and not "magnus opus"?
Why is it "magnum opus" and not "magnus opus"?
Why is "opus" 3rd and not 2nd declension?
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"Reipsa his verbis deducti sunt ad mitius consilium"
In paragraph 41 of Epitome Historiae Sacrae, one can read:
Reipsa his verbis deducti sunt ad mitius consilium.
Why "ad mitius consilium" rather than "ad mitium consilium"?
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How did "glutaeus/gluteus" come from Greek "gloutos"? Would "glutiaeus" be more correct?
In anatomy, the muscles of the buttocks are referred to collectively as the "glut(a)eal muscles" in English, and are individually given the following Latin names: glut(a)eus maximus, glut(a)eus medius ...
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What is the difference between and Indefinite Adjectives and Indefinite Pronouns?
What is the difference between Indefinite Adjectives and Indefinite Pronouns?
Is there a different? Is there usage the only difference? Do they not decline the same? Do I translate them differently?
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Can Noun Phrases qualify Latin adjectives
In LLPSI FR in Chapter 19 at line 90 is the following excerpt.
“[...] Decem anni? longum est tempus, sed amor meus tempore no?n minuitur. [...]”
My inference for translation is:
Ten years is a long ...
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Translating "east–west" and "north–south"
In many railway transit systems, the lines connecting the north/east part and the south/west part of a city are called "North–South Line" and "East–West Line". In many languages ...
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What are the types of hair in latin?
What would be the adjectives to describe someone's hair?
The only I know is "crispus" "curled"
Could i just translate the adjectives in English into latin?
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Is verus (true) etymologically related to viridis / vireo (green / to be green)?
Is verus (true) etymologically related to viridis / vireo (green / to be green)?
The closest to this that St. Isidore in his Etymologies p. 124 says:
Switches (virga) are the tips of branches and ...
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Is there a semantic difference between -icus and -alis?
As far as I know both suffixes can be used to create an adjective from a noun.
e.g. numericus and numeralis (and even numericalis!)
Is there a semantic difference between them, a preferred suffix for ...
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How to obtain the stem of a comparative adjective?
Learn to Read Latin says on p276 in Section 109. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs:
Comparative Degree of Adjectives
All regular first-second and third-declension adjectives in Latin form
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