Questions tagged [morphology]
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"Reipsa his verbis deducti sunt ad mitius consilium"
In paragraph 41 of Epitome Historiae Sacrae, one can read:
Reipsa his verbis deducti sunt ad mitius consilium.
Why "ad mitius consilium" rather than "ad mitium consilium"?
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ambobus? (a morphologically peculiar adjective with a peculiar syntax here)
There is a very famous passage in the Aeneid that narrates its hero looking at some pictures of the Trojan War, which he barely escaped from:
Miratur. Videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas,
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What is the meaning of these Greek words ἵπποπείρην and ἐπεμβάτην?
Recently I have come across this short poem of Anacreon, which I give below in its totality for the sake of context:
Πῶλε Θρῃκίη, τί ��ή με
λοξὸν ὄμμασι βλέπουσα
νηλεῶς φεύγεις; δοκεῖς δέ
μ’ οὐδὲν ...
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How did the contracted perfect passive work?
I was shocked when I saw the word "latest" in a Latin book. The book's English translation implies it is related to "latus." The next word "alteque" would have suggested ...
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Saint Augustine letter to Nebridio
In one of Saint Augustine's letters, numbered Carta 10 [CSEL 34/1,22 ] (PL 33,73) in "Obras Completas de San Agustin VIII – Cartas (1.º) 1-123", we see the phrase:
Mittaturne ad te ...
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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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What does Martin Waldseemüller mean by "asie partis" in his map Carta Marina?
This webpage from Spanish BBC talks about the second main map by Martin Waldseemüller, the first mapper to name the continent America, called Carta Marina. There, we see the southern portion of ...
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Shouldn't be "intravisset" instead of "intrasset"?
The following excerpt comes from Titus Livius Ad urbe condita, liber XXV, capititulum XXXI (emphasis mine):
Paucis ante diebus quam Syracusae caperentur, T. Otacilius cum quinqueremibus octoginta ...
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Why is the inflection of supellex so weird?
The noun supellex takes the stem supellectil- in declined forms. The -il- part seems related to the suffix -ilis as in fragilis, but it disappears in the nom. sg. form.
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What does "nosse" mean?
What does nosse mean? I cannot find it in Lewis & Short. For example (Cicero, Philippicae 6.1.6):
Quam ob rem, quod quaesivit ex me P. Apuleius, homo et multis officiis mihi et summa ...
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Which senses does ob have in the following words?
Oxford Latin Dictionary says that prep. ob has the following senses:
ob prep.
In the direction of, towards.
In front of or in the way of (so as to block).
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How one can say "The door opened" in Latin?
I'm interested in knowing all the possible grammatical (i.e. morphosyntactic) ways to express the perfect construction "The door opened" in Latin. It seems to me that, in this case, a ...
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Why is the superlative form of "fertilis" "fertilissimus" rather than *fertillimus?
Superlatives of adjectives ending in -lis are usually formed with the suffix -limus. For example, the superlative of facilis is facillimus. So, why is the superlative of fertilis fertilissimus, rather ...
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Why is regenerationis genitive in lavacro regenerationis?
Context: ...quae quidem translatio post Evangelium promulgatum sine lavacro regenerationis aut eius voto fieri non potest...
I understand that lavacro is in the ablative case because sine is paired ...
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Why do words starting with vu- all have alternative forms starting with vo-?
As far as I can see, every Latin word that starts with vu- has a collateral form starting with vo-. It's not many, but these at least: vulgus, vulnus, vulpes, vultur, vultus, and indeed vulva, where ...
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