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Where to put the enclitic -ne?
The enclitic particle -ne can be used to form a binary (yes/no) question.
I would like to know how attaching it to different words changes the meaning of the question.
I have a clear idea of how it should behave, but that may well be because this is…
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Christ or Messiah in Latin
The Greek word Christos (Χριστός) and the Hebrew word Messiah (many similar words exist in related languages, and I don't claim to make an accurate transliteration of any of them) are titles used of Jesus, and they both mean "anointed".
It occurred…
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A complete family tree
There are many Latin words for relatives: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, cousin…
Different languages have slightly different sets of words for relatives and some words don't point at a unique kind of relative.
For…
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Latin ligature "qz"?
I'm wondering what is that ligature:
The closest on the Wikipedia's list of ligatures would be "qp" but it doesn't look exactly like that.
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Quo modo dicitur "application"?
Qua voce Latina tradidi potest vox Anglica "application"?
Non de theoria adhibenda ago, sed de programmatis telephonulorum (sive telephonorum mobilium) vel computatrorum hac voce Anglica appellatis.
Nescio an "applicatio", e quo vox illa Anglica…
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What is the imperative of velle?
The conjugation tables of irregular Latin verbs that I have seen do not give any imperative forms for the verb velle.
The verb nolle has the imperative forms noli and nolite, and they are fairly common.
I found no hits for the forms voli, volite and…
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What Latin word could I use to refer to a grocery store?
I would like to say "I am eating in the grocery store", and so far I have come up with "edo in foro" and "edo in emporio". But I'm not sure if either of these would be the best fit. What word would you use to describe a modern-day grocery store? On…
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When did consonantal "v" start being transcribed as "β"?
Since I learned Latin using ecclesiastical pronunciation, I have a general interest in the shift from the classical pronunciation of "v" as /w/ to /v/.
This question is more focused though: I am interested in finding out at what point Greek…
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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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Translation of “in” as “and”
In one of his letters to Varro, Cicero says:
“Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.”
I’ve found this translated as:
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” (wikiquote)
My understanding is that “in” can be…
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Hogwarts Motto from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series
Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter books, has the following Latin motto: Draco dormiens numquam titillandus.
Most online sources translate this as "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". However, it occurred to me that,…
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How do I express total surprise or perplexity when asking a question?
Are there conventional expressions in Latin to strengthen the question, showing total surprise or perplexity? How do you say, for example, "What the heck...?" or "Why on earth...?" in Latin?
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Why is the Latin word for plum so close to the name of Damascus?
The Latin word for plum is damascena, and the capital of Syria is Damascus.
Are these names related? Why is Latin word for plum so close to the name of Syrian capital? Did Damascus have good plums in the old times?
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Understanding the grammar: «illis Evangelii nuntiandi praebens mandatum»
The following is the Latin text from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), Prologue, Chapter 1, Section 2:
2 Ut haec vocatio in toto resonaret orbe, Christus Apostolos misit, quos elegerat, illis Evangelii nuntiandi praebens mandatum: «…
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Did Latin change less over time as compared to other languages?
In this answer to a question about the preciseness of Latin, there is a quote from from Frederic Taber Cooper's Word formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius (1895):
There were, as Cicero himself has pointed out, three ways in which the deficiencies…
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