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.
malus, peior,
    pessimus, worst (Sec. 311)
peto:, -ere, -i:vi:  or -ii:, -i:tus, strive for, seek, beg, ask; make
    for, travel to
.  Cf. postulo:, quaero:, rogo: 
Pharsa:lus, -i:, f. Pharsa’lus or Pharsa’lia, a town in Thessaly,
    near which Cassar defeated Pompey, 48 B.C.
philosophia, -ae, f. philosophy philosophus, -i:, m. philosopher pictus, -a, -um, adj. [[part. of pingo:, paint]], colored,
    variegated

pi:lum, -i:, n. spear, javelin (Sec. 462.b) pisci:na, -ae, f. [[piscis, fish]], fish pond piscis, -is, m. fish pi:stor, -o:ris, m. baker placeo:. -e:re, -ui:, -itus, please, be pleasing, with dat. (Sec.
    501.14)
pla:nitie:s, -e:i:, f. [[pla:nus, level]], plain pla:nus, -a, -um, adj. level, flat ple:nus, -a, -um, full plu:rimum, adv. in superl. degree, compared multum, plu:s, plu:rimum,
    very much.
  plu:rimum vale:re, be most influential (Sec. 322)
plu:rimus, -a, -um, adj. in superl. degree, compared multus, plu:s,
    plu:rimus, most, very many (Sec. 311)
plu:s, plu:ris, adj. in comp. degree, compared multus, plu:s, plu:rimus;
    sing. n. as substantive, more; plur. more, several (Sec. 311)
pluteus, -i:, m. shield, parapet poena, -ae, f. punishment, penalty poe:ta, -ae, m. poet pompa, -ae, f. procession Pompe:ii:, -o:rum, m. Pompeii, a city of Campania.  See map Pompe:ius, Pompe:’i:, m. Pompey, a Roman name po:mum, -i:, n. apple po:no:, -ere, posui:, positus, put, place.
  castra po:nere, pitch camp
po:ns, pontis, m. bridge (Sec. 247.2.a) popi:na, -ae, f. restaurant populus, -i:, m. people Porsena, -ae, m. Porsena, king of Etruria, a district of Italy. 
    See map
porta, -ae, f. gate, door porto:, -a:re, -a:vi:, -a:tus, bear, carry portus, -u:s, m. [[cf. porta, gate]], harbor possideo:, -e:re, -se:di:, -sessus, have, own, possess possum, posse, potui:, ——­, irreg. verb [[potis, able, + sum,
    I am]], be able, can (Sec. 495).
  nihil posse, have no power
post, prep, with acc. after, behind (Sec. 340) postea:, adv. [[post, after, + ea:, this]], afterwards (posterus), -a, -um, adj., compared posterior, postre:mus or
    postumus, following, next (Sec. 312)
postquam, conj. after, as soon as postre:mo:, adv. [[abl. of postre:mus, last]], at last, finally
    Cf. de:mum, de:nique (Sec. 322)
postri:die:, adv. [[postero:, next, + die:, day]], on the next
    day

postulo:, -a:re, -a:vi:, -a:tus, ask, demand, require.  Cf. peto:,
    quaero:, rogo: 
potentia, -ae, f. [[pote:ns, able]], might, power, force prae-beo:, -e:re, -ui:, -itus [[prae,
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