Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

  ADJECTIVES
  legio:na:rius, -a, -um\,[A] _legionary, belonging to the legion_. 
    As a noun, legio:na:rii:, -o:rum, m., plur., _legionary soldiers_
  
li:ber, li:bera, li:berum\, free (liberty) As a noun. li:beri:,
    -o:rum, m., plur., children (lit. the freeborn)
  pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum\, _pretty, beautiful_

  PREPOSITION
  apud\, _among_, with acc.

  CONJUNCTION
  sed\, _but_

    [Footnote A:  The genitive singular masculine of adjectives in -ius
    ends in -ii:  and the vocative in -ie; not in -i:, as in nouns.]

LESSON XIV, Sec. 99

  NOUNS
  auxilium, auxi’li:\, n., _help, aid_ (auxiliary)
  
castrum, -i:\, n., fort (castle); plur., camp (lit. forts)
  cibus, -i:\, m., _food_
  
co:nsilium, co:nsi’li:\, n., plan (counsel)
  di:ligentia, -ae\, f., _diligence, industry_
   magister, magistri:, m., _master, teacher_[A]

ADJECTIVES aeger, aegra, aegrum\, _sick_ cre:ber, cre:bra, cre:brum\, frequent miser, misera, miserum\, _wretched, unfortunate_ (miser)

    [Footnote A:  Observe that dominus, as distinguished from
    
magister\, means master in the sense of owner.]

LESSON XV, Sec. 107

NOUNS carrus, -i:\, m., _cart, wagon_ inopia, -ae\, f., want, lack; the opposite of co:pia studium, studi:\, n., _zeal, eagerness_ (study)

  ADJECTIVES
  
arma:tus, -a, -um\, armed
  i:nfi:rmus, -a, -um\, _week, feeble_ (infirm)
   vali’dus, -a, -um, _strong, sturdy_

  VERB
  ma:tu:rat\, _he (she, it) hastens._ Cf. properat

  ADVERB
  iam\, _already, now_

  /-que\, conjunction, and; an enclitic (cf.  Sec. 16) and always added
  to the second of two words to be connected, as arma te:la’que,
  arms and weapons.

LESSON XVII, Sec. 117

NOUNS agri:  cultu:ra, -ae\, f., _agriculture_ Gallia, -ae\, f., Gaul domicili:um, domi:ci’li:\, n., _dwelling place_ (domicile), _abode_ Gallus, -i\, m., a Gaul lacrima, -ae\, f., _tear_ fe:mina, -ae\, f., woman (female) numerus, -i:\, m., _number_ (numeral)

  ADJECTIVE
  
ma:tu:rus, -a, -um\, ripe, mature

  ADVERB
   quo:, whither

  VERBS
   arat, he (she, it) plows (arable)
  de:si:derat\, _he (she, it) misses, longs for_ (desire), with acc.

  CONJUNCTION
  an\, _or_, introducing the second half of a double question, as
  _Is he a Roman or a Gaul_, Estne Romanus an Gallus?

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