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Plural dative and ablative of Greek neuters ending in -ma
There are several third declension neuters of Greek origin ending in -ma with genitive -matis.
These have otherwise regular third declension forms, but the plural dative and ablative are often -īs instead of -ibus.
I have seen both endings,…
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How would you say "The Etruscan language died two thousand years ago and nobody understands it." in Etruscan?
What do you think, is "⸱⸱⸱⸱⸱⸱⸱⸱⸱" (transliterated: "Rasenal ursmini lupuce hanti zaθrum vor avilari nanatnam inc hamθin.") good Etruscan for "The Etruscan language died two thousand (literally, twenty hundreds) years ago and nobody…
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Lonely vs. alone
A person is alone when there are no other people around.
A person is lonely when the presence of other people is missed.
Neither implies the other; you can be lonely but not alone or alone but not lonely.
Can this distinction be made in Latin?
If…
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Is "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" correctly attributed to Seneca (the younger)?
The quote is a fairly well know lyric in the 1998 song Closing Time by Semisonic. In the Wikipedia entry for the song, it claims "The song ends with a quote attributed to Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca." However, in the talk page for the entry at…
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How should "porta itineri longissima" be interpreted?
According to a comment by @SebastianKoppehel, the interpretation of porta itineri as "the gate to the journey" seems questionable. Wiktionary, for example, has the following translation:
The gate to the journey [is the] furthest.
Is this the…
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Verbum Hispānicum "mientras" significat "-m" fīnāle prōnūntiātum esse?
In Was the final “-m” a “full-featured” consonant?, cēnsēbant "-m" fīnāle prōnūntiātum nōn esse, sed faciēbat nāsāle vōcālem praecēdēns. Sed invēnī verbum Hispānicum "mientras" ex linguā Latīnā "dum interim" vēnisse. Quōmodo exstat "m-" incipiēns in…
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How does a computer crash in Latin?
I wrote up a lengthy question to ask here, but my computer crashed and I lost it.
Instead of reproducing the question just now, I would like to know how to describe the situation in Latin.
The only thing I am missing is a good verb for…
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Is sal ever neuter?
Are there instances in known literature where sal, "salt", is neuter instead of masculine?
If yes (as it now seems), can it be freely used as both masculine and neuter or is there a difference?
The reason I ask is something I heard years ago about…
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Does word order lessen the ambiguity in Accusativus cum Infinitivo?
A question was recently asked about how to say "I thinks he loves me" in Latin, because the most straightforward translation is ambiguous as to who may be loving who:
Puto eam me amare
In the comments of one of the answers, @brianpck wondered if…
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How do you say "I think she loves me" in Latin?
Im confused when it comes in two accusatives in indirect statements.
How do I say "I think she loves me" without sense of "I think I love her"?
I get the translation as - Cogito/arbitror ei me amare.
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edere panem vs. comedere panem
Consider the following minimal pair:
edere panem 'to eat (the) bread'
comedere panem 'to eat up the bread'
When a resultative prefix is present (e.g. com- in comedere), panem is necessarily understood as definite (or at least it is understood as…
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Are "sex" and "sexus" etymologically related?
Are
sex (the number 6) or sextus (⅙ or ordinal sixth)(From where the English word "sextant" comes.)
and
sexus (sex or gender)
etymologically related?
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Interrogative pronouns about animals (Quis aut quid)
If I want to ask the question about the dog, whose name is Cerberus should I ask
Quis est Cerberus?
or
Quid est Cerberus?
Do we use quis or quae (according to gender) about animals or quid?
What is the rule here?
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What is the diminutive form of "Insula"?
I recently had to look for various diminutives from latin words, however I got stuck when I had to find the diminutive for "Insula".
After many researches on the Internet I came across some ideas such as "Insulitta" (but I think the "-ittus, -itta"…
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How to say "To serve, not to be served" in Latin?
I would like to know how to translate the phrase "To serve, not to be served" in Latin.
It doesn't have to be a word for word translation. But, I want to know the phrase that would give the impression I'm going for to a Latin native.
To serve, as in…
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