Why do we call a case a casus? And why rectus, obliquus?
The unexpected point is that the casus rectus is often not seen as an actual casus. This idea does not begin with Honoratus: Varro (116 - 27 BC) makes the same point in less explicit terms: Propter eorum qui dicunt usum declinati casus, uti is qui de altero diceret, distinguere posset, cum vocaret, cum daret, cum accusaret, sic alia eiusdem ...
"Casus": an active perfect participle from a non-deponent verb?
2021年8月21日 · The participle casus would seem to provide the missing link to the fourth-declension noun casus. But what does it mean, exactly? Is casus like English "fallen", a past participle with active meaning? In English, intransitive verbs all get a past participle to form periphrastic tenses, e.g. "has existed" or, archaically, "is come", but do not ...
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§1. Casus §2. Genere masculino, feminino et neutro §3. Numero singulare et plurale. I wonder if casus should be understood as singular or as plural. As far as I know it belongs to the 4th declension, I guess the case is nominative so I have no way to distinguish between "The case" and "The cases".
In “word x is case y”, what dictates the verb’s number?
2023年4月28日 · Maybe it is short for "casûs nominativi sunt singulares", since we find the wording "nam 'rubra crista' longae sunt ultimae, quia ablativi sunt casus" at In Vergilii Aeneidos Libros 9.49.3. The commentary of Pomponius Porphyrio on Horace uses the wording "Non nominativi casus sunt "sumptuosa" et "hostia". Grammatical number of verbs
syntax - Ambiguitas casus genitivi? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2016年3月3日 · Ambiguitas casus genitivi? Ask Question Asked 8 years, 8 months ago. Modified 8 years, 2 months ago.
Why is the infinitive used instead of a genitive gerund (e.g ...
2021年8月17日 · In English, at least, this phenomenon would be unremarkable. Taking the first example (Caes. de Bello Gall. 7.26) = (either) "they adopted the stratagem of fleeing from the town on the next day" (genitive of gerund) or "they adopted the (this) stratagem--to flee from the town on the next day (infinitive).
Quo mortuo nuntiato (Cicero) // Ab urbe condita nuntiata (?)
And the native would say, "Casus ablativus hoc semper significat. Semper est idem! 'Caesar anno 2019º discessit', 'Caesar Cicerone consule discessit', 'Caesar vento secundo discessit', 'Caesar lectica decrepita discessit', etc.—in unusquoque elogio casus ablativus sibi idem vult."
What did the Romans consider the "basic" form of a verb?
2016年11月18日 · Cum verborum declinatuum genera sint quattuor, unum quod tempora adsignificat neque habet casus, ut ab lego leges, lege; alterum quod casus habet neque tempora adsignificat, ut ab lego lectio et lector; tertium quod habet utrunque et tempora et casus, ut ab lego legens, lecturus; quartum quod neutrum habet, ut ab lego lecte ac lectissime.
Speaking about an inflected word in Latin
2016年4月14日 · Quia ly se potest esse ablativi casus, et tunc simpliciter vera est: et est sensus: genuit alterum se, idest alterum a se. Vel potest esse accusativi casus; et tunc vel facit simplicem relationem . . . (Super Sent., lib. 1 d. 4 q. 2 a. 2 expos.)
What is Latin for Devour? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2021年3月25日 · Oh, it is follow famous expression 'casus belli', but for the case of the author's synopsis, where something happened to need to devour any piece of the found resource. – T1nts Commented Mar 25, 2021 at 15:25