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For linguistic questions concerning the Latin language, a dead Indo-European language of the Roman Empire and ancestor of modern Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and a few others. For questions specific to Latin only, please visit our sister site Latin Language Stack Exchange.
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Why is fucus reconstructed as *bhoiko-?
Some Indo-Europeanists cite the stem-form of nouns (as in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition); others cite the nominative singular (as in Greek and Latin dictionaries). …
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anomaly in a Latin hexameter
The verse is correct. ne-qu(e)a-d(h)aec is three sylables: short + short + long.
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Where did Latin come from?
The authors of the Talmud Bavli, living in Sasanian Iraq, probably did not know anything about Latin. The statement in Gitin 80a is simply wrong. Is that a problem? …
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Did the Latin '-que' mean "any, also, ever'?
-que has generalising force only after pronouns and adverbs, e.g. ubique 'wherever', quisque 'whoever'.
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strange Latin spelling : karissime
The spelling karus is frequent in Latin inscriptions.There does not seem to be any obvious reason. …
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Distributive case in Latin
No, bina is not “the plural of bini”. This word exists only in the plural. In the nominative case you have masculine bini, feminine binae, neuter bina.
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Online etymology dictionary for Latin
Good up-to-date dictionaries are under copyright and not on line. I suggest you get a reader's ticket at a well stocked university library.
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Can the Latin conjunction -que coordinate two propositions?
I think this is the usage described by Kühner p. 641 no. 4. It is (as he says) very common both in poetry and prose.
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Descendants of Latin vs. Greek?
The relationship between (let's say) Spanish and Latin is very much like that between Attic Greek and modern Demotic Greek. …
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Why does "date" in Portuguese became "data", while in Dutch "datum" is used?
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (etc.) data, and French date (whence English date) are all taken from Mediaeval Latin data, the plural of classical Latin datum, but reinterpreted in these languages as a singular … All of these are bookish borrowings from Mediaeval or Classical Latin (so-called cultisms) and not organic descendants of the Latin words. …
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What is the etymology of "adventus?"
The two forms coalesce in Latin in the nominative singular. …
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How "fluent" do professional classicists get in reading Latin and Greek? How do they do it?
the ability to translate into Latin and Greek (“composition”). … At university a large portion of students enrolled for Classics, and a small number of these went on to become professors of Greek and Latin. By this stage they were very fluent indeed. …
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To what extent are Zero Period loans from Latin into Germanic evidence that the Germanic peo...
It is possible that Germanic had it from Latin, but that is far from certain. …
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How "the case system collapses" in e.g. Latin
If I may follow up on Keelan’s remarks on Semitic: The ancient Semitic languages distinguished three cases in the singular (with suffix /u/ for the nominative, /i/ for the genitive, /a/ for the accusa …
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Aura, Aurum, Aurora & *h₂ews-
The Latin aura is a loan from Greek αὔρα, for which the original meaning (still in Homer) is “morning mist”. … In this case the connection with the Latin aurora “dawn” and aurum *glow > “gold” is not difficult semantically, all deriving from an IE root *h₂ews-. …
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