Tag Archives: Syntax
Popular Quotes Translated to Latin Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Sep 4, 2013
Salvete Omnes, The following quotes are done with the simplest form and are meant to be fun! While, I did not translate certain words such as “damn” and “chocolates” etc.; this was due to a stylistic approach or a lack of an ancient words. Also, it should be noted to those new to Latin that the word…
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: locative Posted by leire on Sep 23, 2012
Locative The locative case, attributed to Indo-European language, expressed the ubi complement, with local and temporal meaning. It indicates where and when something happened. In Latin, only some of the old locative cases remain: in the singular of the first and second declensions. Its morpheme is -ae for the first declension, -i for the second…
Syntax: accusative II Posted by leire on Aug 20, 2012
To read about nominative, vocative and other kind of accusative uses read our previous post. Extension accusative Accusative case can be used to express the extension in space and time. The accusative of extension in space, always in terms of extension (passus, pes …), can indicate distance traveled, distance between two points or dimensions of…
Syntax: nominative, vocative and accusative I Posted by leire on Aug 13, 2012
Nominative Nominative is the case of subject’s personal verb forms, and therefore of everything concerning the subject. Caesar venit. Puer est laetus. Hannibal prīmus in proelium ībat. ITt serves to ‘name’ (nōmināre), the nominative is used in conjunction with de + ablative, for book titles: Bellum civīle. …