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	Latin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Latin is also still used (drawing heavily on Greek roots) to furnish the names used in the scientific classification of living things.
		Latin is a synthetic inflectional language: affixes (which most times encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect in verbs, which is called conjugation.
		Latin was once taught in most of the schools in Britain with academic leanings - perhaps 25% of the total [1].
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	Latin
		Latin was first brought to the Italian peninsula in the 9th or 8th century BC by migrants from the north, who settled in the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where the Roman civilization first developed.
		Latin was influenced by the Cel tic dialects and the non-Indo-European Etruscan language of northern Italy, as well as by the Greek of southern Italy.
		Latin is a synthetic, fusional language: affixes (often suffixes, which usually encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns?a process called "declension".
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	Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Latin gained wide currency as the formal language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and was also later adopted by medieval scholars, as well as the Catholic Church.
		Latin was influenced by the Celtic dialects and the non-Indo-European Etruscan language of northern Italy, as well as by the Greek of southern Italy.
		Latin translations of modern literature such as Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, Tintin, Asterix, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Le Petit Prince, Max und Moritz, and The Cat in the Hat are intended to bolster interest in the language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin (2450 words)

	Latin
		Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium.
		All Romance languages descend from a Latin parent, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English.
		Moreover, Latin was a lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, being eventually replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Latin.html (419 words)

	Learn Latin
		Unfortunately, there is no actual classical Latin in it, and the exercises include such useful phrases as: "A chamber pot is not a suitable place for a pear tree." Nevertheless, such exercises are entertaining and useful, though I do not use them very much.
		The Latin in these lessons is that of the first century, regarded by those whose opinions may be valued as the purest and most pleasing, which is why it is called classic.
		Declensions and conjugations are put in tables, and I do not know what Lynx would make of these.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/classics/latin/learnlat.htm (1002 words)

	Sprachprofi - Free online Latin course
		Declension A 'declension' describes the way a noun, an adjective or a participle changes when it's put into a different case.
		One more example: in the sentence "the mother goes", both "the mother" and "goes" are singular (necessarily so because the predicate has to reflect whether the subject is singular or plural); whereas in the sentence "the mothers go", both "the mothers" and "go" are plural.
		In Latin and other languages with declensions, the subject's case is referred to as "Nominative" case.
	snow.prohosting.com /sprach/latin/terms.htm (1367 words)

	Latin - FrathWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Latin is a member of the family of Italic languages, and its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, is based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the Greek alphabet.
		Latin was influenced by the Celtic dialects and the non-Indo-European
		Although Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe, in recent years it has been supplanted by the study of many other languages; it is a requirement in relatively few places, and in some schools is not even offered.
	wiki.frath.net /Latin (1898 words)

	Latin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Latin is a synthetic or inflectional language: affixes are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect in verbs, which is called conjugation.
		However, as many as half the words in English were derived from Latin, including many words of Greek origin first adopted by the Romans, not to mention the thousands of French, Spanish, and Italian words of Latin origin that have also enriched English.
		Latin translations of Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Cat in the Hat (Cattus Petasatus) have also helped boost interest in the language.
	www.abcworld.net /Latin.html (1443 words)

	Latin declension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This declension class is the last to in Latin; the only nouns that have full declension are dies and fides.
		first (called the "first and second declension") the a and o declensions of nouns with the a endings added when the adjective is and the o forms for masculines.
		The other class for adjectives (called the declension") is similar to the third class nouns with the important difference that nearly these adjectives form the ablative singular in not in -e.
	www.freeglossary.com /Latin_declension (1163 words)

	A Comparative Latin Grammar
		Noun declension forms show the variety of endings which we can compare with their Proto-Indo-European ancestors and with other Indo-European groups and say where the language is conservative or progressive, whether it belonged to this or that dialectal group within the proto-community, and what were the phonetic and morphological processes in it.
		Latin nouns had seven cases (one of them, locative, was unstable and in Popular Latin disappeared), two numbers (no dual number in any of the Italic tongues), and all three genders.
		Adjectives in superlative are declined as the 1-2 declension.
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	What's the Plural of 'Virus'? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If Latin had continued to be the common international language of scholars and scientists at the time that viruses were first identified, it appears likely that it would have generated the forms adduced by Steam.
		The Latin noun virus does not belong to the second declension group but, like the noun fructus, meaning fruit or piece of fruit, belongs to a group of Latin words that is declined according to the fourth declension.
		According to the fourth declension the plural genitive of virus in Latin is viruum and therefore an Index of Viruses is in Latin an Index Viruum.
	linuxmafia.com /~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html (2620 words)

	First Declension Generic Names Ending in -e, and, Declining AmericaP
		Normally the standard endings of the Latin first declension present little problem (Rosa, Rosae, Rosae, Rosam, Rosa, etc.) and it is one of the first and hence most familiar of the Latin paradigms presented to the beginning student.
		Why rhaphe should be in the third declension in Latin is also problematic as, in Greek, the word seems to be a standard first declension noun (not the third).
		Republic is actually a conflation of two words: res (s.f.V), a feminine noun of the fifth Latin declension, and the modifying feminine singular form of the adjective 'publicus': res publica.
	www.mobot.org /plantscience/ResBot/botlat/galianth.htm (2133 words)

	Declension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns and adjectives to indicate such features as number (typically singular vs. plural) and case (subject, object, and so on).
		Declension occurs in a great many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many Indo-European languages, but is much less prominent in English; English nouns only decline to distinguish singular from plural (e.g.
		Declension has been analyzed extensively in Sanskrit, where it is known as karaka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Declension (772 words)

	Chapter 2
		Only one long mark is mandatory in the first declension, the macron over the ablative singular ending (-â) which distinguishes it from the nominative (and vocative) singular.
		Given the ending of a noun and a sentence context, any Latin student should be able to answer the question: "What case is X and why?" For instance, if a noun is nominative and serves as the subject of a sentence, the correct answer would be "X is the nominative subject."
		[Latin vocabulary will always include the nominative and genitive forms of all nouns since nominative forms are sometimes irregular and do not exhibit the base of the noun which is used throughout the rest of the declension.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/Latin1000/Chapters/02ch.htm (779 words)

	latin grammar
		Latin grammar, vocabulary, translations and the text of C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico.
		Latin course by Dr. Peter Jones for all ages.
		An interactive Latin grammar helper with demos keyed for the Oxford, Cambridge, or Ecce series and Wheelock.
	www.users.qwest.net /~ngill1/latin2.html (292 words)

	Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
		Latin language and literature and several helpful Latin downloads for the Macintosh.
		Latin Parser and Translator by Adam McLean, a Windows program developed in Visual Basic, provides help with Latin vocabulary and grammar.
		Latin Wordlist are available from the University of Kansas.
	archives.nd.edu /latgramm.htm (854 words)

	Fix-ing Latin
		This presentation involves the use of drills on suffixes and infixes which represent the chief morphological elements of Latin.
		This technique has evolved over a number of years and consists, in large part, of the application to Latin of the analytic method used in teaching a course in word origins.
		It is my purpose to further refine these sets and to extend the system at the end of 202 to ease the transition to reading Latin without the aid of macrons.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/showcase/jones.html (372 words)

	Latin and English Grammar
		Latin had already lost its noun declension in popular speech by the fifth century, but it was preserved in the literary language as used by Church and State.
		Latin does not require in every predicative sentence the word "be /.is", as the pivot on which the predication rests.
		The Latin Imperfect is a late formation in the history of the Latin evolution, made by adding a syllable "-ba-" to the stem of the Simplex, with a regular set of generic endings.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/EngLatGrammar.html (9854 words)

	What's the Plural of `Virus'?
		declension neuters: virus (some poison), pelagus (the sea, usually poetically), and vulgus (the crowd).
		declension neuter in -us) that makes it debatable what the Latin plural would have been; the only plural in English is viruses. Omnibus and rebus were not nominative nouns in Latin. Ignoramus was not a noun in Latin.
		Steam in his manual on botanical Latin (Botanical Latin, Newton Abbey, 2nd ed., 1973) gives what would be the normal plural forms of such a second declension neuter noun: nominative vira, genitive virorum, without, however, indicating his authority for those forms.
	www.ofb.net /~jlm/virus.html (2596 words)

	Allen and Greenough Part I: Forms (search version)
		Latin spelling varied somewhat with the changes in the language and was never absolutely settled in all details.
		Latin, the language of the ancient Romans, was properly, as its name implies, the language spoken in the plain of Latium, lying south of the Tiber, which was the first territory occupied and governed by the Romans.
		The i-declension was confused even to the Romans themselves, nor was it stable at all periods of the language, early Latin having i-forms which afterwards disappeared.
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	Plurals of Latin/Greek words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Latin plural of "curriculum vitae" is "curricula vitae".
		Some people who know a little Latin think it should be "curricula vitarum" (since _vitae_ means "of a life" and _vitarum_ means "of lives"); but to an ancient Roman, "curricula vitarum" would suggest that each document described more than one life.
		This is a feature of the Latin genitive of content, which differs in this regard from the more common Latin genitive of possession.
	www.yaelf.com /aueFAQ/mifplrlsltngrkwrds.shtml (383 words)

	Declension - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In linguistics, declension is a feature of inflected languages: generally, the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role.
		This is seen, for example, in Latin, German, Russian, and many other languages.
		Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have systems similar to declension whereby different counting words are used when counting different classes of nouns, for example persons, animals, things, cylindrical objects, flat objects, etc.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=8645 (514 words)

	declension of Greek substantives in Latin
		Greek Substantives, especially proper names, are commonly Latinized, and declined regularly according to their stem-characteristics.
		Note, however, that many Greek names, of the third declension in Latin, pass over into the First Declension in the Plural; as, Thûcȳdidâs, Hyperîdae, and many names in -crâtes (such as, Sôcrâtae as well as Sôcrâtês).
		Greek Names ending in -eus are declined both according to the Greek and according to the Latin Second Declension (but the Genitive -eî and the Dative -eô are often pronounced as one syllable in poets).
	www.informalmusic.com /latinsoc/greekdec.html (338 words)

	Language Log: Pseudo-Latin Plurals
		My best guess is that they have come up with a generalization about the form of the case/number endings, namely that they consist of one or more vowels possibly followed by a consonant.
		Someone who doesn't actually know Latin will generally encounter nouns in the nominative case, so that much is plausible.
		Maybe they pronounce ii and i the same and so treat both as a single vowel, leading them to treat ii as a single morpheme and forcing them to conclude that the ius of words like gladius is also a single morpheme.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000809.html (449 words)

	Latin Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Notice that the underlined last letters of the Latin words (puellae, silvae, urnae) are alike.
		All Latin nouns are grouped into five _____________ (one word, lower case.)
		Looking at all the first declension nouns we have learned so far, what do you think is the usual nominative singular ending?Just type the single, lower case letter.
	www.dl.ket.org /latinlit/grammar/mirror-noun/latnoun2.1.html (517 words)

	Wheelock-linked Latin Acquisition Pages
		The Idea of Case and Declension in Latin
		Latin Verbs: Master the Passive Forms, Primary Tenses: With examples for all conjugations, translated
		Latin Verbs: Master the Passive Forms, Perfect Tenses: With examples for all conjugations, translated
	www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/wh-prax.html (255 words)

	Latin Fourth Declension
		This declension was declining in use, with a number of masculine and feminine nouns moving to the second declension.
		When Latin borrows nouns, say from Greek, or perhaps through a time warp from English, these nouns may have somewhat creative declensions.
		Generally in Latin, the supine is restricted to accusative and ablative fourth declension forms.
	www.math.ohio-state.edu /~econrad/lang/ln4.html (202 words)

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