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Expressing a possession relationship without the genitive?
I have the following sentence:
Clara est insula Sicilia
What I initially thought:
Sicily is a famous island
(This doesn't seem to make sense considering how the sentence is set up, but who knows... that's the best I got.)
But to my surprise,…
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Use of the Genitive
I am new to learning Latin. I have been doing exercises related to the genitive and got one wrong and I am not understanding why. The question was to translate the following into Latin - "We greet the master of the house." I answered "Villam…
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Is "Jacob" genitive in "jubilate deo jacob"?
"Jubilate deo Jacob" is translated everywhere as "rejoice unto the god of Jacob". But from what little I know, Jacob is not in the genitive case. May I ask if this was a grammatical shift when in ecclesiastical Latin, or that Jacob is taken as…
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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 means "K is a letter of the Greeks, not the…
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Which noun is the genitive describing in this sentence?
Beginner here. In "Ad familiam nautae pecuniam portabo", is nautae describing familiam or pecuniam? That is, does this translate to "I will carry the money to the sailor's family" or "I will carry the sailor's money to the family"? Or could it be…
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Plural genitive in 1st and 2nd declension - how were mixed genders treated?
Genitive plural personal nouns in 1st and 2nd declension: I am wondering how human possessors of mixed gender were treated in ancient Latin. For example, how would the following possessive be translated: 'This is the home of Mr and Mrs Catullus…
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