Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

Latin for Beginners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 433 pages of information about Latin for Beginners.

  [Special Vocabulary]

  incolumis, -e\, _unharmed_
  
ne:  ... quidem\, adv., not even.  The emphatic word stands between
    ne:\ and quidem\
  nisi\, conj., _unless, if ... not_
  
paene\, adv., almost (pen-insula)
  satis\, adv., _enough, sufficiently_ (satisfaction)
  
tantus, -a, -um\, so great
  ve:ro:\, adv., _truly, indeed, in fact_.  As a conj. _but, however_,
    usually stands second, never first.

de:cido:, de:cidere, de:cidi:, ——­\, _fall down_ (deciduous) de:silio:, de:sili:re, de:silui:, de:sultus\, leap down, dismount maneo:, mane:re, ma:nsi:, ma:nsu:rus\, _remain_ tra:du:co:, tra:du:cere, tra:du:xi:, tra:ductus\, lead across

296. The indefinite pronouns are used to refer to some person or some thing, without indicating which particular one is meant.  The pronouns quis\ and qui\, which we have learned in their interrogative and relative uses, may also be indefinite; and nearly all the other indefinite pronouns are compounds of quis\ or qui\ and declined almost like them.  Review the declension of these words, Secs. 221, 227.

297. Learn the declension and meaning of the following indefinites: 

MASC.  FEM.  NEUT.
quis quid, some one, any one (substantive)
qui:  qua or quae quod, some, any (adjective), Sec. 483
aliquis aliquid, some one, any one
(substantive), Sec. 487
aliqui:  aliqua aliquod, some, any (adjective), Sec. 487
qui:dam quaedam quoddam, quiddam, a certain,
a certain one
, Sec. 485
quisquam quicquam or quidquam (no plural), any one
(at all) (substantive), Sec. 486
quisque quidque, each one, every one
(substantive), Sec. 484
quisque quaeque quodque, each, every (adjective), Sec. 484

[Transcriber’s Note: 
In the original text, the combined forms (masculine/feminine) were
printed in the “masculine” column.]

NOTE.  The meanings of the neuters, something, etc., are easily inferred from the masculine and feminine.

    a. In the masculine and neuter singular of the indefinites,
    quis-forms and quid-forms are mostly used as substantives,
    qui-forms and quod-forms as adjectives.

b. The indefinites quis\ and qui\ never stand first in a clause, and are rare excepting after si\, nisi\, ne:\, num\ (as, si quis, if any one; si quid, if anything; nisi quis, unless some one).  Generally aliquis\ and aliqui\ are used instead.
c. The forms qua\ and aliqua\ are both feminine nominative singular and neuter nominative plural of the indefinite adjectives qui\
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