The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Grammars Extant, with an Appendix |
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ablative active voice adjectives adverbs advised Amatūrus amātus Audītus Cæsar clause commonly compounds conjugation construction dative declension declined denote DEPONENT VERBS dicit Dixit English ěram ēre ěris essem expressed F.-PERF feminine fuěram fuěro fuisse future FUTURE-PERFECT gender genitive genitive plural gerund govern the accusative Greek hæc hear heard ibus illis IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect Impersonal verbs impersonally INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD inflect intransitive verbs ipse Latin lātus leading verb loved Masc masculine mihi Monitus Neut neuter nominative nouns õpus passive voice PERF perfect participle PLUP pluperfect Plur plural præ predicate preposition PRES present infinitive pronoun quæ quam quid quis quod quum Rectus ruled sense sentence signification singular sometimes SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive sunt superlative supine syllable third conjugation third person tibi tive transitive Translate the following understood VIRG vocative vowel word write
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Page 5 - A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS. A diphthong is two vowels joined in one syllable ; as, ea in beat, ou in sound.
Page 300 - Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum ; et, quasi cognatione quadam, inter se continentur.
Page 109 - The Conjugation of a verb is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.
Page 195 - Verbs of this kind do not always express frequency of action. Many of them have much the same sense with their primitives, or express the meaning more strongly.
Page 2 - The consonants are, 6, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, I, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z, and w and y beginning a word or syllable.
Page 36 - All nouns of this declension are feminine, except dies, a day, which is masculine or feminine in the singular, and always masculine in the plural ; and meridies, the mid-day, which is masculine in the singular, and wants the plural.
Page 327 - Latins, 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 ftill retains it in writing, like the
Page 246 - XX. Verbs of plenty and scarceness for the most part govern the ablative ; as, Abundat divitiis, He abounds in riches.
Page 164 - INFINITIVE. Pres. amaturus esse, to be about to love. Perf. amaturus fuisse, to have been about to love.
Page 14 - Accusative and Vocative like the Nominative, in both numbers ; and these cases in the plural end always in a. 2. The Dative and Ablative plural end always alike.