Questions tagged [gender]
For questions about grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter).
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Gender Match with Latin Noun Vir
My question is about this phrase from 38 Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin:
Prometheus est vir magnae sapientiae;...
Why are magnae and sapientiae apparently in the feminine genitive case?...
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Why is "dies" (day) masculine in Vulgate in Lucas 22:1, but feminine in Lucas 22:7?
In Lucas 22:1:
Appropinquabat autem dies festus azymorum, qui dicitur Pascha.
In Lucas 22:7:
Venit autem dies azymorum, in qua necesse erat occidi pascha.
I know "dies" can be both ...
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A Boy Named Sue
I was once told that "Susan" was an ancient example of a name switching genders: Originally, it was "Susan" vs. "Susanna", and when the name passed from Latin to its ...
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Why is πλοῦτος sometimes neuter?
I was reading some of the letters of St. Paul recently and noticed that πλοῦτος is sometimes neuter, e.g. Ephesians 1:7:
. . . ἐν ᾧ ἔχομεν τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ, τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ...
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Why do emasculatus and effeminatus mean the SAME thing, despite being formed the SAME way with OPPOSITE morphemes? [duplicate]
The etymological constructions of emasculatus and effeminatus are identical:
emasculatus < ex- + masculus + -atus
effeminatus < ex- + femina + -atus
Since masculus and femina are opposites, ...
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Shouldn't adducti in this sentence be feminine?
This is a Caesar's sentence:
Hac oratione adducti inter se fidem et ius iurandum dant et regno occupato per tres potentissimos ac firmissimos populos totius Galliae sese potiri posse sperant.
Hac = ...
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Lack of gender agreement in Aeneid iv.169-70
I was thrown by the lack of gender agreement in line iv.169 of the Aeneidː
Ille dies primus leti primusque malorum //
causa fuit;
I translate: “That was the first day of death, and was the first ...
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Both 'masculus' and 'vir' mean man/male: what's the difference?
In Latin, masculus means male.
Noun masculus m (genitive masculī); second declension
a male (of humans or other animals)
In Latin, vir also means male.
Noun vir m (genitive virī); second declension
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Why feminine is used in "haec locuta"?
The following sentence comes from lines 74–75 of chapter XXV of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana, after Ariadna has said some words to Theseus:
Haec locūta, Ariadna Thēseō fīlum longum ...
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Is there a meaning behind 'mater' and 'pater' beyond mother and father?
I ask because i vaguely remember pater, the latin root for father, also having the meaning 'to protect' or 'to lead'? A fairly thorough google search has yet to substantiate that so I might have just ...
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Did Latin have the same gender labels that the Romance languages have?
I'm curious about the concept and origin of gendered nouns. In a modern romance language such as Spanish, nouns are masculine or feminine which I'll describe as anthropomorphic labels. From my ...
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Are vir and fémina counterparts of each other?
pater means father, and mater means mother, and the two words have similar forms.
vir means "man; husband", and fémina means "woman; wife". But the two words look very different ...
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Why is virtis a feminine noun, when it can mean "manliness"? [duplicate]
Keller's Learn to Read Latin says
virtis, virtutis f. is an abstract noun formed by the addition of the suffix -tis to the stem of the noun vir.
Its specific sense is thus "manliness" or “...
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What is the gender of the word "Haec" in Latin?
"post haec in terris visus est et cum hominibus conversatus est"
I have no knowledge of Latin language. This is a verse from the Latin Vulagate bible. Most translations have this verse ...
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Gender of antecedent of "hoc" in phrase "hoc quod"?
In the construction "hoc quod", can the antecedent of "hoc" (neuter) be indifferently a masculine, neuter, or feminine noun; or must the gender agree (i.e., the antecedent be ...
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