Questions tagged [case]
For questions about grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative and vocative). Consider also using the tags 'declension' and 'morphologia'.
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I can't find a nice literal translation for "Stella caelis exstirpavit"
It is a famous Catholic prayer:
Stella caeli exstirpavit
Quae lactavit Dominum
Mortis pestem quam plantavit
Primus parens hominum.
The first line just doesn't make sense to me and apparently ...
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On the case of "patientia nostra" in Cicero
Very straightforward. I don't know any dictionary of latin regencies, so I come here whenever these questions rise up.
In the famous quote:
Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
we have ...
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When does a Latin relative pronoun get "attracted" into the case of its antecedent?
Generally, a relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender and number, while its case is determined by its grammatical function in the relative clause, e.g.
Do pecuniam filio [dat.] quem [acc....
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Reason for ablative case in "praesidioque decorique parentibus esse"
In Lucretius II 641–643
"aut quia significant divam praedicere ut armis
ac virtute velint patriam defendere terram
praesidioque parent decorique parentibus esse."
I am not very comfortable ...
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What is the correct analysis of the personal dative in the so-called "double dative constructions"?
The so-called “double dative construction” contains a "dative of purpose" (e.g. maxumo terrori in ex. (1) below) and a personal dative (e.g. Numantinis in (1)) that turns out to be affected ...
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Shouldn't this *illis* be in the genitive *illorum* in here?
In the famous Caesar's sentence:
*Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset: non esse dubium quin totius galliae plurimum ...
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About the nominative on "dimitte nobis debita nostra"
The phrase
dimitte nobis debita nostra
belongs to the famous prayer Our Father in Latin.
I can understand that dimitte is in the active imperative singular form and nobis is on dative of "us&...
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Why "quod" and not "quo" is used here?
In chapter XXII of Lingua latina per se illustrata: Colloquia Personarum, I have read the following sentence (emphasis mine in the word I find difficult to understand):
Hic anulus ex auro puro factus ...
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What's the role of the pronoun "iis" in this context?
In lines 48-52 of chapter XVI of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana one can read:
Merīdīes dīcitur ea caelī pars ubi sōl merīdīe vidētur; pars contrāria septenriōnes appellātur ā septem ...
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What's the grammatical role of "mille passus" in this sentence?
In chapter XII of the 2003 edition of Lingua latina per se illustrata, one can read the following sentence (lines 93-94):
Aemilius in castrīs habitat mīlle passūs ā fīne imperīi.
I understand its ...
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About "nōn uidēmus manticae quod in tergō est"
In the famous latin expression
"nōn uidēmus manticae quod in tergō est".
We see the word manticae. I always considered that this word must be the direct object of the sentence, however, if ...
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Can I say "soni sensi" for "of the felt sound"?
So "sonus" + "sentire" would be "sound" + "to feel".
And "sonus" + "sensus" (past perf. part of "sentire") would be in agreement.
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Is any word attested in both vocative and locative?
Both the vocative and the locative are pretty rare cases, and not found in all kinds of words.
Is there any word that is attested in both cases in classical Latin?
I prefer the vocative to be distinct ...
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Are the cases in Latin always six?
In a book about linguistics I've read this sentence:
Each word has up to six different such 'cases', and each case has distinct endings for singular and plural.
Now I'm pretty sure that when I ...
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Why is 'cum' followed by the dative in this sentence?
Look at the following sentence from Orberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata - Familia Romana (ch. 18).
Consonans per se syllabam non facit, sed semper cum vocali in eadem syllaba iungitur.
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