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Language - Latin
Undergraduate 3
04/16/2014

Additional Language - Latin Flashcards

 


 

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Case
Definition

Case is a grammatical category whose value reflects the grammatical function (refer to functional relationships between constituents in a clause i.e. subject, direct object, indirect objectperformed by a noun or pronoun in a phrase, clause, or sentence.

Term
Inflection
Definition

Modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, case, etc.

 

Verb Inflection=Conjugatin

Noun, Pronoun, Adjective Inflection=Declension

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Introduction
Definition
  • When the Romans took over the peninsula, they brought their language with them.
  • They imposed it on the people of the peninsula.
  • Latin wathe dominant language and it is from Latin that Spanish evolved.
  • The Roman Republic reached its cultural climax during the first century B.C.E.
  • The Latin of that period is called Classical Latin.
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