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How One Latin Sentence Can Teach You SO Much Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Sep 25, 2013
The foundation story of Rome can be found in Book I of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) (Literally: From the City having been founded). Thus, Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita begins with the founding of Rome and progress to his modern day. Let us attempt to translate one sentence…
Learning Latin through Books, Films, and Music. Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Jul 17, 2013
Salvete Omnes, (Hello, Everyone!) Today, I am going to talk about Classical Latin within different types of mediums such as books, films, and music. While it is difficult to jump into any language without knowledge of the language’s syntax or even vocabulary- it can sometimes be helpful to use pop culture to aid in learning…
Brittany Britanniae, I presume? Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Jul 10, 2013
Salvete Omnes! (Hello Everyone!), I am so honored and excited to become part of Transparent Language’s Latin Blog. So, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Brittany, but for this blog I have adopted the epithet of “Brittany Britanniae” (which means Brittany “of Britain” and this is the singular genitive form of the feminine noun “Britannia” or…
Syntax: ablative Posted by leire on Sep 18, 2012
The overall value of the ablative is to indicate the external circumstances, the relationship between the process and the external thing. Latin ablative represents the mix of three primitive cases: the ablative, the instrumental-sociative and the locative. Latin unified the old values of these three cases into one, except the few remaining locative cases. This…
Syntax: genitive Posted by leire on Aug 31, 2012
The genitive is, firstly, the complement of the noun (it means that a noun determines another noun), but it still mantains some uses in Latin as a verb complement. Possessive genitive It expresses possession of something and, rarely, the thing possessed: Ager patris A person’s name in genitive complementing another person’s name was the way…
Non-personal verbal forms Posted by leire on Jun 15, 2012
The verb forms which do not have personal ending are known as non-personal verbs or noun-verbs. These verb forms simultaneously have nouns’ characteristics (they are nouns or adjectives) and verbs’ characteristics (tense, voice…). In Latin we have three verbal nouns (infinitive, gerund and supine) and two verbal adjectives (participle and gerundive). Morphology is as follows…
Relative, interrogative-indefinite & other pronouns Posted by leire on Apr 26, 2012
Relative pronouns Singular Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter Nominative qui quae quod qui quae quae Accusative quem quam quod quos quas quae Genitive cuius quorum quarum quorum Dative cui quibus Ablative quo qua quo quibus The relative pronoun’s only function is the phoric, as it always refers to the antecedent, with which…