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El. knyga: Latin For Dummies

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  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Mar-2022
  • Leidėjas: For Dummies
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781119874812
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  • Leidėjas: For Dummies
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781119874812
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"In Latin For Dummies, you'll take a tour through the language of ancient Rome. Beginning with Latin you may already know, like "carpe diem" and "quid pro quo," the book walks you through essential Latin grammar and everyday Latin phrases. It also explores how Latin shaped and molded modern languages, including English"--

Master the basics of a lyrical and useful language

Even though most people don’t use Latin anymore, it used to be spoken by millions of people from across the ancient world. It later morphed into new languages we still use today!

In Latin For Dummies, you’ll take a tour through the language of ancient Rome. Beginning with Latin you may already know, like “carpe diem” and “quid pro quo,” the book walks you through essential Latin grammar and everyday Latin phrases. It also explores how Latin shaped and molded modern languages, including English.

In this book, you’ll find:

  • Lessons to learn Latin grammar and vocabulary
  • Practices for reading, translating, and composing Latin
  • Tips to recognize commonly confused Latin words

Latin For Dummies proves that learning Latin, while challenging, can be fun and exciting too! It’s perfect for first timers interested in the ancient language and anyone who wants to learn more about ancient Roman history and culture.

Introduction 1(1)
About This Book
1(1)
Conventions Used in This Book
2(1)
Foolish Assumptions
3(1)
How This Book Is Organized
3(1)
Part 1 Getting Started with Latin
4(1)
Part 2 Latin in Action
4(1)
Part 3 Latin in the Modern World
4(1)
Part 4 The Part of Tens
4(1)
Part 5 Appendices
4(1)
Icons Used in This Book
5(1)
Beyond the Book
5(1)
Where to Go from Here
6(1)
PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH LATIN
7(60)
Chapter 1 You Already Know a Little Latin
9(14)
Latin: Not as Dead as You May Have Hoped
10(1)
Familiarity Breeds Comfort: Latin You Already Know
10(5)
English in a toga: Latin derivatives
11(2)
In the debit column: Latin loanwords
13(2)
From A to Z: The Latin Alphabet
15(1)
Soundin' Like a Roman: Pronunciation
15(8)
Classical pronunciation
17(2)
Ecclesiastical pronunciation
19(1)
Don't stress out: Accenting syllables
20(3)
Chapter 2 The Nitty Gritty: Basic Latin Grammar
23(24)
Bending the Rules: All about an Inflected Language
24(1)
Latin Nouns (Or Why You Should Love Your English Teacher)
25(9)
Talking about the birds and the bees: Gender
25(1)
Casing a Latin noun
26(1)
Declining a Latin noun
27(7)
Lights! Camera! Action! Introducing Verbs
34(9)
Joining the ranks of verb conjugation
34(2)
Taking it personally --- personal endings
36(1)
Relax! If s just the verbs that are tense
37(6)
Making Connections through Conjunctions
43(4)
Chapter 3 Salve! (Hello!): Greetings and Introductions
47(20)
Hello, Goodbye: Roman Salutations and Farewells
48(2)
The boys 'n the 'hood: Addressing males
49(1)
Olivia, where are you?: Addressing females
50(1)
Do It - Now!!!!!
50(3)
Being There: Esse (To Be)
53(1)
Saying Where You're From
54(1)
Identifying Yourself
55(2)
Asking Questions
57(2)
Using-ne
57(1)
Common question words
58(1)
The Preposition Proposition
59(2)
Playing the Numbers
61(6)
Counting it down: Cardinal numbers
62(1)
Putting things in order: Ordinal numbers
63(1)
The "I's" have it: Roman numerals
64(3)
PART 2 LATIN IN ACTION
67(134)
Chapter 4 The Roman Family and Social Structure
69(18)
Keeping It All in the Family
69(6)
Familiarizing yourself with the familia
72(3)
Gushy stuff: Love and marriage
75(1)
Throwing on Meaning with Adjectives
75(6)
Understanding 1st- and 2nd-declension adjectives
76(2)
Using 3rd-declension adjectives
78(3)
Perfecting the Past and the Future
81(6)
Attaining perfection: Perfect tense
81(1)
Going beyond perfect: Pluperfect tense
82(2)
Finishing someday: Future perfect tense
84(3)
Chapter 5 Food and Housing in Roman Life
87(18)
Living to Eat and Eating to Live
88(5)
Living by bread alone
88(1)
Feeding veggies to an empire
89(1)
Going whole hog with meat
89(1)
Having your fruit and eating it, too!
90(1)
Please pass the ketchup!
91(1)
Potent potables
91(2)
Dining Practices
93(4)
Three squares a day
94(1)
Minding your manners around the mensa
95(1)
Weapons of attack, or fun with forks
96(1)
To Be or To Eat: That's the Real Question
97(4)
Volo (to want)
98(1)
Nolo (not to wish)
98(1)
Malo (to prefer)
99(1)
Fero (to bring or carry)
99(1)
Eo (to go)
100(1)
Welcome Home!
101(4)
Living downtown
101(1)
Venturing out to your villa
102(3)
Chapter 6 The Roman Calendar
105(24)
Planning Ahead with the Roman Calendar
106(5)
Biding the hours and days
106(1)
Naming months
106(1)
Flying by with the years
107(2)
Playing the dating game
109(1)
Having a Roman holiday
110(1)
Oh, That Able Ablative!
111(5)
What time is it?
111(1)
Quo vadis? (Where are you going?)
112(1)
Everything but the kitchen sink
112(4)
Expressing Subjunctive Moodiness
116(4)
Understanding the present subjunctive
117(2)
Understanding the perfect and not-so-perfect subjunctive tenses
119(1)
Pleading Insanity: The Insanity Clause
120(3)
Purpose clause
120(1)
Result clause
121(1)
Characteristic clause
121(1)
Clauses for indirect questions
121(1)
Introducing clauses with cum
122(1)
He Seems Like a God! Roman Deities
123(6)
The big twelve
123(1)
Housecleaning with the gods
124(1)
Knocking on wood: Superstitions
125(4)
Chapter 7 The Roman Army
129(16)
You're in the Army Now
129(6)
Exercising the right to fight
130(2)
Saluting men of rank
132(1)
The tools of the trade: Arma and tela
133(2)
4th-and 5th-Declension Nouns
135(4)
Understanding 4th-declension nouns
135(3)
Understanding 5th-declension nouns
138(1)
Proceeding with Pronouns
139(6)
I, I, I! --- using personal pronouns
139(1)
This or that? Demonstrative pronouns
140(2)
Who's who? Relative pronouns
142(3)
Chapter 8 Roman Entertainment and Sports
145(16)
Let the Games Begin!
146(6)
Sacred games
146(1)
Not for the squeamish: Gladiatorial games
146(3)
Round and round we go: Chariot racing
149(3)
Good, Better, Best: Never Let It Rest!
152(3)
Comparative-degree adjectives (-er)
152(1)
Superlative-degree adjectives (-est)
153(1)
Irregular comparisons
154(1)
Standing Room Only: Roman Plays
155(6)
A tragic story
156(1)
Laughing 'til it hurts
157(4)
Chapter 9 Roman Government
161(24)
Ruling the World
161(7)
King for a day: The kingdom
163(2)
By the people, for the people: The Republic
165(2)
Rendering unto Caesar: The Empire
167(1)
Getting Out of the Verbal Trap
168(10)
Presenting present participles
169(2)
Looking back with perfect participles
171(1)
Voicing concerns about participles
172(3)
Running with gerunds
175(3)
Passive (Aggressive) Voice
178(7)
Present, imperfect, and future passive
178(1)
Perfect, pluperfect, future perfect passive
179(6)
Chapter 10 More Lasting Than Bronze: Latin Literature
185(16)
The Written Word
186(3)
Before the days of copyrights
186(1)
Who's who of Latin authors
187(1)
Measuring Latin poetry
188(1)
Getting Grammar into Proper Condition
189(2)
Future, less vivid
190(1)
Future, more vivid
190(1)
Present, contrary to fact
191(1)
Past, contrary to fact
191(1)
Telling It Secondhand --- Indirect Statements
191(4)
Understanding Latin infinitives
192(1)
Handling indirect statements
193(2)
Writing for the Rest of Us
195(6)
Letter writing
196(1)
Etched in stone: Inscriptions
197(1)
The writing on the wall: Graffiti
197(4)
PART 3 LATIN IN THE MODERN WORLD
201(112)
Chapter 11 Keeping It Simple, Silly
203(20)
Finding the Subject in the Case
204(2)
Filling in the Details
206(1)
Where Were You on the Night of the 15th?
207(1)
Listening to Latin Litigation: Words Used in Roman Courts
208(5)
Legal beagles: The cast and crew
209(1)
Can you describe what you saw?
209(2)
Latin legal lingo
211(2)
Summation and Closing Arguments
213(1)
Latin Words Used in English-Language Courts
214(9)
Common courtroom Latin
215(3)
Less common Latin phrases
218(5)
Chapter 12 The Decline and Fall of Roman Declensions
223(20)
A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose --- But Not in Latin
224(1)
Sending It Off to the Lab (or the Dictionary)
225(3)
Getting a Second Opinion through Context
228(1)
Completing Your Residency
229(2)
Flexing those muscles
229(1)
Interior design
230(1)
Getting In Shape with Verbs
231(2)
This Doesn't Seem Right, Doc
233(3)
Understanding Common Medical Terms
236(2)
Using Latin at the Drugstore
238(5)
Chapter 13 We All Live In a Yellow Subordinate Clause
243(22)
Finding Your Purpose
244(1)
Seeing the Results of All This
245(2)
I'll Help You on One Condition
247(1)
The Early Church and Its Adopted Language
248(17)
Help me, oh Lord! (and others, too)
249(1)
Invoking the name of God
250(2)
Keeping on God's good side
252(1)
Words for the universe
252(5)
Reciting the Lord's Prayer in Latin
257(2)
A final list of (and a few stories behind) Latin expressions
259(6)
Chapter 14 Latin in Zoology and Botany
265(10)
Classifying Basics
266(5)
You don't have to be a genius to understand genus
267(1)
Getting specific with species
268(3)
Naming Fauna and Flora
271(4)
Common plant genus and species names
271(2)
A rose is a rose is a rose --- or is it?
273(2)
Chapter 15 Translating and Reading Latin
275(24)
Word Order, or Where in the Heck Is the Subject?
276(1)
Making Sense of a Translation
276(14)
Who's doing what?
277(1)
Translating simple sentences
278(1)
Translating longer sentences
279(3)
Real live Latin: Messin'with Martialis
282(2)
Translating complex sentences
284(1)
More live Latin: Catullus's catch
285(2)
Translating subjunctive mood
287(3)
Once More unto the Breach
290(9)
More Martial wit
291(1)
Catullus hearts Lesbia
292(2)
Caesar, you're a real pain in the back!
294(1)
Will the real Hannibal please stand up?
295(4)
Chapter 16 Mottoes, Sayings, and Quotes: Cocktail Party Latin
299(14)
The Quotable Roman
300(7)
Romans on love
300(2)
Romans on war
302(1)
From the mouth of Julius Caesar
303(1)
I'll have another: Romans on drink
304(1)
Latin quotes from other famous people
304(3)
Advice in Latin: Words to Live By
307(2)
Mottoes in Latin
309(4)
Mottoes of famous organizations and institutions
310(1)
Mottoes of cities and countries
310(3)
PART 4 THE PART OF TENS
313(14)
Chapter 17 More than Ten Loanwords from Latin
315(6)
Forum
316(1)
Spectator
316(1)
Senator
316(1)
Radio
316(1)
Atrium
317(1)
Via
317(1)
Veto
317(1)
Focus
317(1)
Onus
318(1)
Sinister
318(1)
Circus
318(1)
Umbrella
318(1)
Referendum
319(1)
Memorandum
319(1)
Agenda
319(2)
Chapter 18 Ten (or So) False Friends: Common Mistakes in Latin
321(6)
Audere and Audire: Audaciously Audible!
322(1)
Crimen: Guilty or Not Guilty?
322(1)
Ad or Ab: To or Fro?
322(1)
Invitus (by Force)
322(1)
Saepe and Semper: Do You Come Here Often or Always?
323(1)
Servare and Servire: Are You Being Served or Saved?
323(1)
Tandem and Tamen: I'd Like to Go Cycling, But
323(1)
Fugere and Fugare: Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You!
324(1)
Dicere and Ducere: Do As I Say
324(1)
Vir and Vires: Strength Isn't Just For Men
324(1)
Morior and Moror: Being Late to Your Own Funeral
325(1)
Aestas and Aetas: When I Was Your Age in the Summer
325(1)
Cado and Caedo: Be Careful, It's the Fall that Will Kill You!
325(1)
Os and Os: The Mouth Bone?
326(1)
Quidam and Quidem: A Certain Man, Indeed
326(1)
Consilium and Concilium: Do You Have Counsel for the Council?
326(1)
PART 5 APPENDICES
327(2)
Appendix A Noun, Adjective, and Verb Tables 329(24)
Appendix B Latin-English Mini-Dictionary 353(28)
Appendix C Answer Key 381(14)
Index 395
Clifford A. Hull MA in Classical Studies, MA in Classical Architecture, and MLS, teaches Latin, history, and social science at The Harker School in California.

Steven R. Perkins MA in Classics, is an award-winning teacher who has taught Latin and Classics for more than 30 years at secondary and undergraduate levels.