Questions tagged [genitive]
For questions about the genitive case.
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Why is ipse not changing case in presence of possessive adjective?
I'm working through Henle 3/Cicero and had a quibble with the answer key (this concerns Lesson 6, Exercise 19, Problem 11 of Henle 3):
SENTENCE TO TRANSLATE: We did not fortify our very own city.
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Singulars paired with a plural genitive? [duplicate]
I came across this passage in Pro Sestio, which confused me:
...horum homines nomen, orationem, vultum, incessum amabant.
Slapdash literally, this is 'men loved the name, the speech, the face, the ...
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How would you say "on", as in "the processor in the computer you are watching this on"? Would "via" be a good choice? Does it go with ablative or gen?
In a video I recently published, I said this:
Dum in lyceo eram, designabam linguam programmaticam cum nomine AEC, abbreviatio ab Arithmetic Expression Compiler, et scripsi compilerem qui transducit ...
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uncertain genitive
I am confused as to why 'illius' and 'illorum' are genitive in this sentence:
Nam cum ipse mons sanctus Sina totus petrinus sit, ita ut nec fruticem habeat, tamen deorsum prope radicem montium ipsorum,...
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Use of genitive instead of the accusative as the object of persequor
In tale number 74 of Fabulae Faciles, there is the sentence:
Navem longam quam celerrime deduci iussit, et militibus impositis fugientis insecutus est.
Why is the word fugientis in the genitive ...
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How can you know the difference between a chain of genitives and genitive apposition?
I'm a beginner in my learning of Latin, but as I understand it, apposition is when two nouns or noun phrases are next to one another, in the same case, and this means that one of the nouns describes ...
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What is the accent of words with the -um contraction?
There are contracted words in the genitive plural like deum (deōrum) and dīvum (dīvōrum). I don't know if the accent goes to the penultimate syllable or in the last one where the contraction takes ...
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Why do we write “cum marito eius” (cum + abl+ gen.) and not “cum marito ei” (cum + abl+ abl.)?
Pline wrote this sentence:
“Sunt mihi et cum marito eius Minicio Iusto, optimo viro, vetera iura; fuerunt et cum filio maxima, adeo quidem ut praetore 5 me ludis meis praesederit”.
I don’t understand ...
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Usage of ablative in a sentence by Curtius
This text comes from Quintus Curtius Rufus Historiae Alexandri Magni, book 3, chapter 5 (emphasis mine):
Mediam Cydnus amnis, de quo paulo ante dictum est, interfluit. Et tunc aestas erat, cuius ...
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Sub specie precariae linguae or sub specie linguae precariae?
This is a rather small doubt, but I'm currently a bit confused regarding the proper word order of an adjective-noun under a genitive form of the sort "sub specie..." Am I correct in assuming ...
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Do we use "satis multum" + genitive to convey "a sufficient amount of"?
The following sentence comes from lines 126-128 of chapter XVI of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana:
Nāvis aquā implērī incipit, neque enim nautae satis multum aquae haurīre possunt.
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How to Translate "His is better"
So I too was confused about the difference between suus and eius, and came across this question and its great answers.
TL,DR; suus refers back to the subject of the main clause as the possessor, ...
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How to identify the noun declension
I am just beginning to learn.
The issue I run into is that I learned that identifying the declension of a noun means I need to know the genitive. Well…if all I have is the noun as it is written, how ...
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How to determine when a noun is an objective genitive versus a subjective genitive?
St. Augustine writes in Soliloq. i, 10:
nihil esse sentio quod magis ex arce deiiciat animum virilem quam blandimenta feminæ, corporumque ille contactus sine quo uxor haberi non potest.
Is the ...
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Habeo with genitive
Sīc scrīpsit Forcellīni:
K Græcorum littera est, non Latinorum, qui ejus loco c habent ejusdem potestatis.
What is the significance of the genitive case with habeō?
I gather that the sentence above ...
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