Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.
An adjective can come either before or after a noun, e.g. vir bonus or bonus vir "a good man", although some kinds of adjectives, such as adjectives of nationality (vir Rōmānus "a Roman man") usually follow the noun. Latin is a pro-drop language; that is, pronouns in the subject are usually omitted except for emphasis, so for example amās by ...
In Latin, an adjective can either precede or follow its noun: for example, "a good man" can be both bonus vir [154] or vir bonus. [155] Some kinds of adjectives are more inclined to follow the noun, others to precede, but "the precise factors conditioning the variation are not immediately obvious". [156]
Latin word order is relatively free. The verb may be found at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence; an adjective may precede or follow its noun (vir bonus or bonus vir both mean 'a good man'); [5] and a genitive may precede or follow its noun ('the enemies' camp' can be both hostium castra and castra hostium; the latter is more common). [6]
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Latin first declension has only one set of endings for both feminine and masculine nouns. The very small native masculine group includes only a few occupation nouns and nouns imported from the Greek masculine first declension. agricola "farmer" ← ager, agro-"field" and root of colō "I cultivate"
List of Latin nouns with English derivatives; List of Latin adjectives with English derivatives; List of Latin verbs with English derivatives; The last section can stay on here. I propose this split not only due to length, but also because it is practical to split this page based on each part of speech.