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Second Conjugation

Second Conjugation

moneo, monere, monui, monitus To warn

Fixed Amo, Amare problem

There was a bug where, because the Whitaker dictionary had two entries for amo, amare (one which correctly classified it as a 1st conjugation verb, and one which--for reasons best known to Whitaker--classified it as a fictional 9th conjugation verb) it would find the first, unconjugatable, version and quit.

Now it will skip the funny "9th" conjugation entries completely, and go on to display the verb as intended.

First Conjugation

First Conjugation

amō, amāre, amāvī, amatus. To love

Sentences 1

manum manus lavat . - Petronius

Impedit īra animum . - Cato

Spem successus alit . - Motto

Ōccasiō facit fūrem . - Motto

Vincit veritas . - Motto

Fugit hōra .- Motto

We Have Verbs

Lots and lots of verbs. Many of them even conjugate correctly. Actually, I think most of them do, although the only irregular verbs coded for so far are sum and possum. Give it a whirl, and let me know if you spot any problems.

Update OK, it looks like the Whitaker dictionary has some oddities that I didn't anticipate (e.g. venire is coded as 6th conjugation. Evidently this means something to Whitaker, but I'll have to look at the documentation to see what). Mostly if my program doesn't understand what's coded, it will just spit out the data it found in Whitaker, so you can still see the principle parts and definition.

Fixed the Dies Problem

Oops. The program didn't handle the "common" gender (words like parēns "parent" or bōs "ox" or in this case diēs which can be either masculine or feminine but not neuter). For the purposes of declining it, I've elected to arbitrarily decline it as feminine. Not entirely correct, but I don't really know what else to do, short of flipping a coin each time. At least it doesn't crash now.

Latin Word Lookup

I've added a Latin word lookup tool over in the sidebar. It uses the Whitaker word list as a dictionary. Currently, you have to enter one of the principle parts of the word, or it won't find it. E.g. if you want to look up puella, you have to enter either either Nominative Singular "puella" or Genitive Singular "puellae". I plan to enhance it so that if it can't find a match it tries to guess the correct stem and search again. Also, currently it formats nouns nicely, but just returns the entire dictionary line for other parts of speech, since I haven't coded classes to parse anything but nouns yet. Another planned enhancement is to add a button to the interface to decline the noun (and when verbs are added, conjugate them); the underlying program already knows how to decline any noun that it can find in the dictionary, but I need to tweak the HTML to expose that. Actually now that I think of it, for now I'll just make it always show the declension. Then I can just make it toggle-able.

Update: that works. For some reason "dies" throws an error, which I'll have to investigate later, but right now I have to go to bed.

Forum Romanum Nouns Table

Latin Language Resources: Inflected Latin, Nouns

Just to double-check. Plus they bother to put in the vocative and locative.

Gloss On!

Here's an experiment with glossing, using textile

rēs, rēī

fur furem cognoscit et lupus lupum .

Fifth Declension

e-Declension. Mainly feminine nouns.

Fourth Declension

u-Declension

Note The "BarCharts" Quick Study card for Latin Grammar disagrees with Wheelock (and the other references I checked), indicating that the Neut. Dat. Sing. ending is -ui, just like the masculine, so be careful. I should check how Lingua Latina drills it.

There are a very few feminine fourth declension nouns.

Third Declension

Regular (Consonant)

also i-stem and mixed i-stem

Note the -ī in the ablative singular of the neuter

Note the -īs in the accusative plural instead of -ēs

Similarly ūniversitās, ūniversitātis, urbs, urbis, and pōns, pontis

Second Declension

but also

and

Vocative, Shmocative, Who Cares?

It's the same as the nominative, except for second declension masculine nouns and adjectives, so I'm not going to bother listing them.

First Declension

Salve!

This is my new blog for practicing my terribly rusty Latin. Until I figure out a better way, I'm going to represent the Latin long accent (macron) as in ā by capitalizing the vowel, and only use it where it's necessary to distinguish from the short. So puella Nom Sing, puellA Abl Sing, but puellas Acc Pl.

Mostly what I'm going to be doing is notes to myself, textbook exercises, and short translations. If I keep this up, and manage to refresh my memory sufficiently, I might try something more ambitious--or not.

UPDATE: OK, I've tweaked the MT-Textile plugin to accept macros for the macrons. It's still a little bit of a hassle compared to just typing the letter, but it's probably good enough to use in displaying canonical forms, and places where the macron is essential to distinguish the meaning.