Term | Definition |
Ablative absolute | Translates to "As X, Y happened" w/variations. Construction: Ablative noun with agreeing participle. |
Anaphora | Repetition of a word. Meaning varies w/word(s). |
Comparative adverb | Adverb in the comparative form, ends -ius |
Gerund | Type: any verb ending in "-ing", walking, speaking, etc. Construction: Normal verb, insert "-nd-" between root and ending |
Inverted verb form | Compound verb where the other part comes first, "sublata est" inverted would be "est sublata," means nothing special-artistic decision |
Indirect command | Command w/out volative. Revealed by translation. |
Relative clause | Began by relative pronoun(q-word) which is always next to what they affect, usually broken off by something. Translates to "X, which Y,..." |
Reflexive verb | Modifies the user, "they X themselves", usually uses "se" |
Passive periphrastic | Translates to "must be," gerundive with sum |
Correlative | Two conjunctions in a sentence, translates to something like "both X and Y" or by conjunction |
Ablative of comparison | Ablative case, translate for use, translates as comparison(duh) |
Superlative adjective | "Most" adjective form, ends w/"-tissimi" |
Gapped word | Used when there's no nominative in a sentence, comes from older sentence by context |
Comparative adjective | "More" adjective form, ends w/"-as" |
Result clause | Clause constructed as "Since X, THEN Y" where caps is actual clause |
Conditional clause | Clause constructed as "If X, then Y" |
Present Active Infinitive | Basic infinitive form, "re" verb, translates "to X" |
Enclitic conjunction | Special construct where conjunction is appended to the end of a word |
Ablative of agent | Ablative case, uses "a" for conjunction, translates as "by X" |
Ablative of accompaniment | Ablative case, uses "cum" for conjunction, translates to "with X" |
Relative clause of characteristic | Relative clause that describes someone, built like relative clause |
Appositive | Noun that defines another noun |
Present passive infinitive | Translates as "to be X", add -ri to end |
Accusative object of preposition | Accusative noun with preposition, modifies another noun |
Present active participle | Conjugated as 3rd-declension adjective, "Xing Y" |
Ablative of manner | Ablative form, has some adjective/adverb to go with it, "with X" |
Future active participle | Recognizable by "futuristic "-urus" ending", "X who is going to Y" |
Ablative of place | Ablative form, has preposition with ablative noun describing place |
Cum clause | "With [...]", always has a "cum" in it |
Perfect passive participle | Remove "-um" from word, add "-us", "Yed X" |
Ablative of means | Ablative form, what they did it with, one-word(in ablative, duh), translate to see |
Ablative of time | Ablative form, noun in ablative, translate to see |
Ablative of cause | Ablative form, uses qu-word, translates as why, translate to see |
Positive adverb | "more" as adverb, "-er" |
Future active infinitive | Future ur, requires esse, "will be doing" |
Accusative object of preposition | Accusative case, look for preposition word to find |
Superlative adjective | Most adjective, "issimo" ending |
Partitive genitive | Part of a group, translate for location |
Ablative of separation | Ablative form, basic ablative |
Ablative of accompaniment | Ablative form, who they're with, always uses "cum" |
Syncopated verb form | When a verb gets the V removed |
Gerundive | Translates: "deserves to be X", d(vowel)m (dam, dum) |
Diminutive | "-ulo", makes something "smaller" |
Imperative | Translates as "do X", singular is Xe, plural is X(vowel)re |
Vocative | Case, describes the speaker, same as nominative-see context for confirmation |