Helps to Latin Translation at Sight

Chapter 81

queri-monia = _complaint_, formed from queri = _to complain_.

ag-men = _line of march_ } agere vag = _to lead_.

_band_ } monu-mentum = a _memorial_, mon-ere = _to remind_.

no-men = a _name_ vgno = _to know_.

(iv.) Nouns denoting means or instrument.

-BULUM, -CULUM, -BRUM, -CRUM, -TRUM, N.

sta-bulum = _stall_ formed from stare = _to stand_.

vehi-culum = _wagon_ vehere = _to carry_.

sepul-crum = _tomb_ sepelire = _to bury_.

ara-trum = _plough_ arare = _to plough_.

+II. DERIVATION OF ADJECTIVES.+

(i.) +Adjectives+ expressing +diminution+, and used as +Diminutive Nouns+.

-ULUS, -OLUS, -CULUS, -ELLUS, -ILLUS.

riv-ulus = a _streamlet_ formed from rivus = a _brook_.

fili-olus = a _little son_ filius = a _son_.

munus-culum = a _little gift_ munus = a _gift_.

codic-illi = _writing tablets_ codex = a _block of wood_.

lib-ellus = a _little book_ liber = a _book_.

(ii.) +Patronymics+, indicating +descent+ or +relations.h.i.+p+.

-ADES, -IDES, -IDES, -EUS, M.

-AS, -IS, -EIS, F.

Atlanti-ades = _Mercury_ } formed from Atlas.

Atlant-ides = the _Pleiads_ } T?d-ides = _Diomedes_ Tydeus.

Cisse-is = _Hecuba_ Cisseus.

(iii.) +Adjectives+ meaning +full of, p.r.o.ne to+.

-OSUS, -LENS, -LENTUS.

form-osus = _beautiful_ formed from forma = _beauty_.

pesti-lens = _pestilent_ pestis = _plague_.

vio-lentus = _violent_ vis = _force_.

(iv.) +Adjectives+ meaning +provided with+.

-TUS, -ATUS, -ITUS, -UTUS.

funes-tus = _deadly_

barb-atus = _bearded_ barba = a _beard_.

turr-itus = _turreted_ turris = a _tower_.

corn-utus = _horned_ cornu = a _horn_.

(v.) +Adjectives+ meaning +made of+ or +belonging to+, or +pertaining to+.

-EUS, -IUS, -ANEUS, -TICUS, -ALIS, -ARIS, -ILIS, -ULIS, -a.n.u.s, -ENUS, -INUS, -ENSIS, -TER (-TRIS), -ESTER (-ESTRIS), -TIMUS, -ERNUS, -URNUS, -TURNUS (-TERNUS).

aur-eus = _golden_ formed from aurum = _gold_.

patr-ius = _paternal_ pater = a _father_.

subterr-aneus = _subterranean_ sub terra = _underground_.

domes-ticus = _domestic_ domus = a _house_.

natur-alis = _natural_ natura = _nature_.

popul-aris = _fellow-countryman_ populus = a _people_.

veter-a.n.u.s = _veteran_ vetus (veter-) = _old_.

ser-enus = _calm_, _of serus = _late_.

evening stillness_ div-inus = _divine_ divus = _G.o.d_.

for-ensis = _of the forum_ forum = _a market-place_.

lac-teus = _milky_ lac (lacti-) = _milk_.

subl-icius = _resting sublica = a _pile_.

on piles_ palus-ter = _marshy_ palus = a _marsh_.

silv-ester = _woody_ silva = a _wood_.

fini-timus = _neighbouring_ finis = a _boundary_.

ver-nus = _vernal_ ver = _spring_.

di-urnus = _daily_ dies = _day_.

diu-turnus = _lasting_ diu = _long_ (time).

(vi.) +Adjectives+ expressing the action of the Verb as +a quality+ or +tendency+.

-AX, -IDUS, -ULUS, -VUS (-UUS, -IVUS, -TIVUS).

pugn-ax = _pugnacious_ formed from pugnare = _to fight_.

cup-idus = _eager_ cupere = _to desire_.

bib-ulus = _thirsty_ bibere = _to drink_.

(of sand etc.) noc-uus = _hurtful_ nocere = _to hurt_.

cap-tivus = _captive_ capere = _to take_.

(vii.) +Adjectives+ expressing +pa.s.sive qualities+ but +occasionally active+.

-ILIS, -BILIS, -IUS, -TILIS.

frag-ilis = _frail_ formed from frangere vfrag = _to break_.

no-bilis = _well known_ noscere vgno = _to know_.

exim-ius = _choice_, _rare_ eximere = _take out_.

tex-tilis = _woven_ texere = _to weave_.

(viii.) +Adjectives originally gerundives.+

-NDUS, -BUNDUS, -CUNDUS.



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