Salvēte, sodālēs.
On page 18 of Handy Latin Tables, Pars Prīma you will find a handy introduction to prepositions. We met our first preposition - in - way back in Capitulum Prīmum. Back then we commented on how words that followed in changed their endings. Let’s revisit that now with vīlla and hortus. A new adjective - pulcher (beautiful) - will help us out.
Vīlla Aemiliae et Iūliī est pulchra. Trēs līberī in vīllā pulchrā habitant.
Hortus Aemiliae et Iūliī quoque est pulcher. Vīlla in hortō pulchrō est.
All nouns that end in -a change their ending after in exactly like vīlla does. While nouns that end in -us or -r or -um change their ending after in just like hortus. (You may have guessed that the Latin word for dinosaur is actually dīnosaurus.) The same thing happens after the prepositions cum (with), sine (without), e/ex (out of) and a/ab (from). But for now, you only need to know about in and cum. Note: The proposition in can mean in or on ; Pecūnia est in sacculō. Sacculus est in mēnsā.
In yesterday’s reading we saw cum followed by a list of plural nouns. Iūlius et Aemilia in vīllā habitant cum līberīs et servīs et ancillīs. After in and cum the plural ending is -īs. This is true for nouns that end in -a, -us, -r and -um.
Okay, you are almost ready for today’s reading. You just need to remember pulcher and learn the Latin name of two beautiful flowers.
from Lingua Latīna Per Sē Illustrāta, page 32.
from Lingua Latīna Per Sē Illustrāta, page 32.
Now READ lines 12-16. Note that in eō means in it, and here it refers to the hortus.
Satis est. Hope to see you back here again soon.