Questions tagged [deponent-verbs]

How can we say "a forgotten war" in Latin? You know what I'm really getting at: I'm asking "How to make a deponent passive in meaning?" but with a specific and puzzling example. Oblīvīscor, "I forget", is a deponent verb, so oblītus can only mean…

It seems like there are several verbs that have both deponent and non-deponent forms and they coincidentally are defective. So, for example, there is patio which has a deponent patior meaning the same thing, and imito also having the identical…

I am working through Jenney's Ssecon-Year Latin wherein he has a digest of the Jason and the Argonauts story and I need to translate the following sentence: Constituit Pelias Iasoni negotiam dare, ut hoc vellere potiretur; I translated…