Questions tagged [verbs]
Questions concerning verbs: words describing action.
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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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Is there a legal sense/use of νομίζω?
Seems weird to be asking a question about ancient Greek in a Latin site, but it is what it is.
This question is very specific, having to do with the use of νομίζω (nomizo) in the passive with the ...
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Shouldn't this est be a sunt in this sentence?
This is a famous quote from Cicero:
Num unum diem postea L. Saturninum tribunum plebis et C.Servilium praetorem mors ac reipublicae poena remorata est?
The verb remorari is deponent, so the subjects ...
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How did the contracted perfect passive work?
I was shocked when I saw the word "latest" in a Latin book. The book's English translation implies it is related to "latus." The next word "alteque" would have suggested ...
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Saint Augustine letter to Nebridio
In one of Saint Augustine's letters, numbered Carta 10 [CSEL 34/1,22 ] (PL 33,73) in "Obras Completas de San Agustin VIII – Cartas (1.º) 1-123", we see the phrase:
Mittaturne ad te ...
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Which verb number does zero take? [duplicate]
(Creating spreadsheets can lead you into unexpected directions.) As many are aware of, the number zero itself, is a fairly recent invention, but words for it of course do and did exist in Latin; ...
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Clean the house
A friend of mine put a reminder to clean his house before going out, in the inner-facing side of the front door. As a humorous note, he wrote it in Latin, attached to a well-known quote:
Memento mori....
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Sentence without a verb
After finishing Haury's Latin translation of The Little Prince, namely Regulus, I found another Latin version by Alexander Winkler. In Chapter 1, I noticed this sentence (in boldface):
Semper vero ...
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How to say "to (de)centralize" in Latin?
How does one say "to centralize" or "to decentralize" in Latin?
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Shouldn't be "intravisset" instead of "intrasset"?
The following excerpt comes from Titus Livius Ad urbe condita, liber XXV, capititulum XXXI (emphasis mine):
Paucis ante diebus quam Syracusae caperentur, T. Otacilius cum quinqueremibus octoginta ...
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"To sound (like)" in Latin
The verb sound in English sometimes acts copulative. The definition of this sense in Merriam���Webster's dictionary is
to make or convey an impression especially when heard
// it sounds good to me
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Why is the verb of the main clause not in the infinitive in this oratio obliqua?
Caesar milites cohortatus est ne ea, quae accidissent, graviter ferrent neve his rebus terrentur
We have indirect speech, the main verb is a deponent verb who is in the perfect past but shouldn't it ...
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Syntax of sentences with the verb "pudet"
In Lewis and Short, I have seen that the verb pudeo is chiefly used as an impersonal verb. In fact, I have found some examples of such usage in chapter XXIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. ...
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Questions on reading the prologue of Aesopus Latinus via LLPSI
Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet
et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet.
Calumniari si quis autem voluerit
quod arbores loquantur, non tantum ferae,
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Dos is explained as a ...
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Why don't "number" and "count" have the same root?
I noticed that in Turkish "number" (sayı) and "counting" (saymak) come from the same root (say-). In English and other European languages number comes from Latin "numerus"...
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