[1] Sometimes also called Aryan or Indo-Germanic.
[2] Cuneiform means "wedge-shaped." The name applies to the form of the strokes of which the characters consist.
[3] The name Zend is often given to this.
[4] For 'voiceless,' 'surd,' 'hard,' or 'tenuis' are sometimes used.
[5] For 'voiced,' 'sonant,' 'soft,' or 'media' are sometimes used.
[6] In this book, long vowels are indicated by a horizontal line above them; as, ā, ī, ō, etc. Vowels not thus marked are short. Occasionally a curve is set above short vowels; as, ĕ, ŭ.
[7] To avoid confusion, the quantity of syllables is not indicated by any sign.
[8] But if the l or r introduces the second part of a compound, the preceding syllable is always long; as, abrumpō.
[9] Only the simplest and most obvious of these are here treated.
[10] Only the simplest and most obvious of these are here treated.
[11] The great majority of all Latin nouns come under this category. The principles for determining their gender are given under the separate declensions.
[12] The Stem is often derived from a more primitive form called the Root. Thus, the stem porta- goes back to the root per-, por-. Roots are usually monosyllabic. The addition made to a root to form a stem is called a Suffix. Thus in porta- the suffix is -ta.
[13] There is only one stem ending in -m:—hiems, hiemīs, winter.
[14] Mēnsis, month, originally a consonant stem (mēns-), has in the Genitive Plural both mēnsium and mēnsum. The Accusative Plural is mēnsēs.
[15] This is practically always used instead of alīus in the Genitive.
[16] A Dative Singular Feminine alterae also occurs.
[17] Supplied by vetustior, from vetustus.
[18] Supplied by recentior.
[19] For newest, recentissimus is used.
[20] Supplied by minimus nātū.
[21] Supplied by maximus nātū.
[22] The final i is sometimes long in poetry.
[23] Forms of hīc ending in -s sometimes append -ce for emphasis; as, hūjusce, this ... here; hōsce, hīsce. When -ne is added, -c and -ce become -ci; as huncine, hōscine.
[24] For istud, istūc sometimes occurs; for ista, istaec.
[25] For illud, illūc sometimes occurs.
[26] Sometimes quīs.
[27] An ablative quī occurs in quīcum, with whom.
[28] Where the Perfect Participle is not in use, the Future Active Participle, if it occurs, is given as one of the Principal Parts.
[29] The Perfect Participle is wanting in sum.
[30] The meanings of the different tenses of the Subjunctive are so many and so varied, particularly in subordinate clauses, that no attempt can be made to give them here. For fuller information the pupil is referred to the Syntax.
[31] For essem, essēs, esset, essent, the forms forem, forēs, foret, forent are sometimes used.
[32] For futūrus esse, the form fore is often used.
[33] Declined like bonus, -a, -um.
[34] The Imperfect also means I loved.
[35] For declension of amāns, see 70, 3.
[36] Fuī, fuistī, etc., are sometimes used for sum, es, etc. So fueram, fuerās, etc., for eram, etc.; fuerō, etc., for erō, etc.
[37] Fuerim, etc., are sometimes used for sim; so fuissem, etc., for essem.
[38] In actual usage passive imperatives occur only in deponents ( 112).
[39] Strictly speaking, the Present Stem always ends in a Thematic Vowel (ĕ or ŏ); as, dīc-ĕ-, dīc-ŏ-; amā-ĕ-, amā-ŏ-. But the multitude of phonetic changes involved prevents a scientific treatment of the subject here. See the author's Latin Language.
[40] But the compounds of juvō sometimes have -jūtūrus; as, adjūtūrus.
[41] Used only impersonally.
[42] So impleō, expleō.
[43] Compounds follow the Fourth Conjugation: acciō, accīre, etc.
[44] Fully conjugated only in the compounds: exstinguō, restinguō, distinguō.
[45] Only in the compounds: ēvādō, invādō, pervādō.
[46] It will be observed that not all the forms of ferō lack the connecting vowel. Some of them, as ferimus, ferunt, follow the regular inflection of verbs of the Third Conjugation.
[47] For the Predicate Genitive, see 198, 3; 203, 5.
[48] Many such verbs were originally intransitive in English also, and once governed the Dative.
[49] This was the original form of the preposition cum.
[50] Place from which, though strictly a Genuine Ablative use, is treated here for sake of convenience.
[51] Especially: moneō, admoneō; rogō, ōrō, petō, postulō, precor, flāgitō; mandō, imperō, praecipiō; suādeō, hortor, cohortor; persuādeō, impellō.
[52] Especially: permittō, concēdō, nōn patior.
[53] Especially: prohibeō, impediō, dēterreō.
[54] Especially: cōnstituō, dēcernō, cēnseō, placuit, convenit, pacīscor.
[55] Especially: labōrō, dō operam, id agō, contendō, impetrō.
[56] Exclamations, also, upon becoming indirect, take the Subjunctive, as cōnsiderā quam variae sint hominum cupīdinēs, consider how varied are the desires of men. (Direct: quam variae sunt hominum cupīdinēs!)
[57] Trāditūri fuerint and errātūrus fuerīs are to be regarded as representing trāditūri fuērunt and errātūrus fuistī of Direct Discourse. (See 304, 3, b.)
[58] Except in Sallust and Silver Latin.
[59] So named from a fancied analogy to the strokes of the Greek letter Χ (chi). Thus:—
| multōs | laesī | |
| Χ | ||
| dēfendī | nēminem | |
[60] The pronouns hic, hoc, and the adverb huc, probably had a short vowel. The syllable was made long by pronouncing hicc, hocc, etc.
[61] Ictus was not accent,—neither stress accent not musical accent,—but was simply the quantitative prominence inherent in the long syllables of fundamental feet.
[62] Originally the Roman year began with March. This explains the names Quīntīlis, Sextīlis, September etc., fifth month, sixth month, etc.