2019年10月27日 · A quick corpus search indicates that it's somewhat more common in the singular than in the plural (202 matches for cibos, 358 for cibum in the PHI), which lines up with my intuition. But both are extremely common in the …

2021年3月16日 · In several dictionaries I encountered under abdico (1st conj.): Abdicare cibum aliquem (Plin.) to prohibit the use of any meat as not good (Thomas Thomasius dictionary) Abdicare cibum aliqem (Pli...

There are several forms of ĕsse and ēsse (= edere) that only differ by the quantity of the initial vowel, perhaps the most common one being ĕst/ēst. How do we know this difference in quantities?

2016年7月24日 · advenerunt quod cibum susciperent but advenerunt quod cibo egebant Since causal clauses are syntactically adverbial, the introductory particle can refer to a reason shown in the main clause: cibo egebant, idcirco advenerunt quia cibum susciperent 4.To conclude : When used as logical conjunctions, the differences between cum, quod and quia are ...

2022年5月24日 · Yes, multus can be used for countable as well as uncountable things: in the singular it is used with uncountable things, especially abstract things like multa cura, multus sermo, etc., but also with substances like multus sudor, multus sanguis, multum cibum, and so on. However, note that “much money” is magna or grandis pecunia, and likewise you have maior and maxima pecunia, and I believe ...

In their Latin course, Duolingo likes to use the post-classical meaning of studeo of "to study". Does this meaning usually take a dative rather than using an accusative? The course regula...

2018年2月21日 · I'm trying to find reasonable translations for the following: I think, therefore I evolve I think, therefore I progress Ideally, I'm looking for something short starting with "cogito ergo" but I ...

I looked up the passage in the Loeb library and found that the full original sentence has this same word order (with the subject parentes implied): Includuntur in carcerem condemnati; supplicium constituitur in illos, sumitur de miseris parentibus nauarchorum; prohibentur adire ad filios, prohibentur liberis suis cibum vestitumque ferre.

2023年11月1日 · I'll leave this question to some of the actual linguistics experts on this site, but you're almost certainly recalling something about the conjectured PIE (=Proto-Indo-European) link between *ph₂tḗr (->pater, father) and *peh₂- ("protect, shepherd," cf. pāscō, ποιμήν). This is a PIE thing, though, not Latin.

Having read a question (and answer) about flies flying, I started to wonder whether flies would really fly with the verb volare. I had always somehow imagined that volare referred to more elegant and