Latin Grammar

Carroll Scanlon Cora

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Prepares students to read the Roman Missal and Breviary. 195 pp. of grammar and a 130-page Latin-English glossary, containing all the words in the Roman Missal and the Roman Breviary. Lessons and readings from these two books, plus from the Latin Vulgate Bible. Fantastic tool for the study of Church Latin.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Catholic Church

Informations

• Publié par: TAN Books
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 1976
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781505106688
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Latin Grammar
Grammar, Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
Cora Carroll Scanlon, A.M Charles L. Scanlon .
Copyright © 1976 by TAN Books, an Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC.
Previously published in 1976 by TAN Books. Originally published in 1944 by B. Herder Book Co.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-112494
ISBN: 978-0-89555-002-6
Typography is the property of TAN Books, and may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher, except that brief selections may be quoted or copied for non-profit use without permission.
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PREFACE
This Latin grammar is intended for students who are entering seminaries or religious novitiates without previous study of Latin, for sisters in communities that recite the breviary, and for the growing number of lay people who use the Roman missal and the Roman breviary. Its twenty lessons, divided into fifty units, cover all the grammatical essentials for the intelligent reading of these two books. The vocabulary comprises the 914 words that make up the Ordinary of the Mass and the three Requiem Masses with their additional Collects, since these are the words that a daily user of the missal will encounter most frequently. However, to make the work as valuable as possible for those who use the missal in its entirety, as well as for those who wish to undertake the daily reading of the breviary, the Latin-English vocabulary at the end of the book includes not only all the words of the Roman missal, but also the complete vocabulary of the Roman breviary.
Of the 914 words used throughout the twenty lessons, 476 have been distributed as regular lesson vocabularies. The remaining 438 words have been grouped in those sections included in each lesson that are devoted to the study of cognates, derivatives, and compounds.
Beginning with Lesson IV and continuing through Lesson XX , the Latin text of each lesson (translation from Latin into English) has been divided into two parts. The second part consists at first of isolated words and short phrases taken from the Ordinary of the Mass and utilizes the vocabulary given up to that point. Later, as the vocabulary increases, these phrases are expanded into complete sentences and finally whole paragraphs are presented. In this way the entire Ordinary and the complete Requiem Masses have been given by the time the twentieth lesson is completed. Extra reading is provided by nine Reading Lessons, one inserted after each lesson from XII to XX inclusive. These are taken from the Vulgate text of the New Testament and have been selected to give a short presentation of the life of Christ from His birth to the Resurrection.
The Appendix contains irregular declensions, cardinal and ordinal numerals, the four regular conjugations complete, and the conjugations of the common irregular verbs.
PRONUNCIATION
1. Vowels . The pronunciation of the vowels is shown in the following table:

2. Diphthongs . The diphthongs are pronounced as follows:

In a few instances the individual vowels of ae and oe are pronounced separately. In the vocabularies these instances will be shown by a diaeresis ( ‥ ) over the second vowel. Míchaël, poëma .
3. Consonants . They are pronounced as in English, with the following exceptions:
CONTENTS
P REFACE
P RONUNCIATION

I.   
Declension. Gender. First declension. Position of adjectives
II.   
Second declension. Agreement of adjectives. Conjugation of verbs. Present indicative of esse and posse . Subject pronouns
III.   
Third declension. Neuter nouns and adjectives. Declension of adjectives
IV.   
Verbs. Present indicative. Active and passive voice of the regular conjugations
V.   
Personal pronouns: subject, object, reflexive. Is. Cum with pronouns. Present indicative of ire

Review Lesson I
VI.   
Imperfect tense, active and passive voice. The imperative. Imperfect of esse, posse, ire. Esto, estote
VII.   
Fourth declension. Future tense, active and passive voice. Future of esse, posse, ire
VIII.   
Fifth declension. Participles. Gerundive. Declension and agreement of participles. Participles of esse, posse, ire
IX.   
Perfect tense, active and passive voice. Formation of other perfect tenses. Perfect of esse, posse, ire . Verbs irregular in the perfect. Irregular past participles. Prepositions governing the accusative. Prepositions governing the ablative. In, sub, super
X.   
Present subjunctive, active and passive voice. Present subjunctive of esse, posse, ire . Uses of the subjunctive: (a) hope, wish, or command; (b) ut, uti, ne . Clauses of purpose. Other ways of expressing purpose: (a) subjunctive with relative pronoun; (b) gerundive with ad; (c) gerundive with causa; (d) infinitive

Review Lesson II
XI.   
Demonstratives: hic, ille, iste . Intensive pronoun, ipse
XII.   
Imperfect subjunctive, active and passive voice. Imperfect subjunctive of esse, posse, ire . Further uses of the subjunctive: (a) result clauses; (b) indirect question; (c) cum meaning when, since, although; (d) conditional sentences of doubt and conditional sentences contrary to fact

Reading Lesson
XIII.   
Third conjugation verbs in -io

Reading Lesson
XIV.   
Deponent verbs. Semideponents

Reading Lesson
XV.   
Relative pronoun, qui . Interrogative, quis . Indefinite pronouns and adjectives. Present indicative, active and passive, of ferre

Review Lesson III

Reading Lesson
XVI.   
Ablative absolute. Fíeri

Reading Lesson
XVII.   
Indirect discourse, Infinitives

Reading Lesson
XVIII.   
Impersonal verbs. Adjectives of special declension. Uses of the dative: (a) indirect object; (b) verbs compounded with prepositions; (c) certain intransitive verbs; (d) agent with the passive periphrastic; (e) possession; (f) purpose

Reading Lesson
XIX.   
Comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Irregular comparisons. Velle, nolle . Command with nolle . Uses of the ablative: (a) ablative absolute; (b) accompaniment; (c) comparisons; (d) agent; (e) cause; (f) degree of difference; (g) manner; (h) means or instrument; (i) place; (j) quality or description; (k) specification; (l) separation; (m) time when; (n) with certain prepositions; (o) after certain deponent verbs

Reading Lesson
XX.   
Questions, -ne, nonne, num, numquid . Double questions, utrum . . . an, -ne an, an. Etiam and non as adverbial particles. Defective verbs. Uses of the accusative: (a) direct object; (b) after certain prepositions; (c) subject of infinitive in indirect discourse; (d) duration of time and extent of space

Review Lesson IV

Reading Lesson
A PPENDIX


Irregular declensions

Numerals

Regular verbs

Irregular verbs
L ATIN -E NGLISH V OCABULARY
LESSON I
U NIT O NE
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa . Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault
Vocabulary
aqua, -ae , 1 f., water
ánima, -ae , f., 2 soul
terra, -ae , f., earth, land
tuba, -ae , f., trumpet
via, -ae , f., way, road
vita, -ae , f., life
María, -ae f., Mary
Lúcia, -ae , f., Lucy
culpa, -ae , f., fault, guilt
et , and
a (ab) 3 (with abl.), from, by
e (ex) 3 (with abl.), out of, from
cum (with abl.), with
in (with abl.), in, on
in (with acc.), against, into, unto
ad (with acc.), to, toward, near
1. Declension . In English a noun changes its form only to indicate possession (the possessive case) or to express plural number. In form the nominative and objective cases are the same.
The man is here. I saw the man . The man’s hat. The men are here.
In Latin the noun usually changes its form for each case and there are five of these: nominative (nom.), genitive (gen.), dative (dat.), accusative (acc.), and ablative (abl.). In addition, adjectives, as well as nouns, in Latin change their forms to indicate their case, gender, or number, for all adjectives must be made to agree in case, gender, and number with the noun modified. To decline a noun or adjective means to give its forms in the right order and all these forms taken together constitute what is called a declension. There are five declensions in Latin, that is, all nouns may be assembled into five distinct classes or groups, which are distinguished from one another by the ending of the genitive singular.
2. Gender . In English the gender of a noun depends upon the sex to which it refers. The noun prince is masculine gender because it refers to a male; the noun women is feminine gender because it indicates females; all sexless objects (for example, chair ) are said to belong to the neuter gender. Many nouns that are classified in English as neuters may be masculine or feminine in Latin.
3. First declension . All nouns that have the genitive singular ending -ae belong to the first declension. Most of the nouns of this declension are of the feminine gender. The following case endings are added to the base:
 
Singular
Plural Nom. -a -ae Gen. -ae -arum Dat. -ae -is Acc. -am -as Abl. -a -is
The ablative may have various meanings: by, from, out of, with, in, etc.
aqua (base, aqu- ), water
 
Singular
Plural Nom. aqua     the water aquae     the waters Gen. aquae     of the water aquárum     of the waters Dat. aquae     for the water aquis     for the waters Acc. aquam     the water aquas     the waters Abl. aqua     in the water aquis     in the waters
aqua bona , the good water
Nom. aqua  bona aquae   bonae Gen. aquae   bonae aquárum   bonárum Dat. aquae   bonae aquis   bonis Acc. aquam   bonam aquas   bonas Abl. aqua   bona aquis   bonis
Note the following:
a ) The base is obtained by dropping the ending of the genitive singular. The case endings are added to this base.
b ) There are no articles in Latin. Aqua means water or the water .
c ) The genitive case corresponds to the possessive case in English. Aquae mea