The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Grammars Extant, with an Appendix

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Pratt, Woodford, Farmer & Brace, 1854 - 344 Seiten

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Seite 5 - A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. DIPHTHONGS AND TRIPHTHONGS. A diphthong is two vowels joined in one syllable ; as, ea in beat, ou in sound.
Seite 300 - Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum ; et, quasi cognatione quadam, inter se continentur.
Seite 109 - The Conjugation of a verb is the regular combination and arrangement of its several numbers, persons, moods, and tenses. The conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE ; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.
Seite 195 - Verbs of this kind do not always express frequency of action. Many of them have much the same sense with their primitives, or express the meaning more strongly.
Seite 2 - The consonants are, 6, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, I, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, x, z, and w and y beginning a word or syllable.
Seite 36 - All nouns of this declension are feminine, except dies, a day, which is masculine or feminine in the singular, and always masculine in the plural ; and meridies, the mid-day, which is masculine in the singular, and wants the plural.
Seite 327 - Latins, often cuts off the vowel at the end of " a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; " though he does not, like the Greeks, wholly drop " the vowel, but ftill retains it in writing, like the
Seite 246 - XX. Verbs of plenty and scarceness for the most part govern the ablative ; as, Abundat divitiis, He abounds in riches.
Seite 164 - INFINITIVE. Pres. amaturus esse, to be about to love. Perf. amaturus fuisse, to have been about to love.
Seite 14 - Accusative and Vocative like the Nominative, in both numbers ; and these cases in the plural end always in a. 2. The Dative and Ablative plural end always alike.

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