In Nominative^x, Genitives^x

A CV produced by one person is his curriculum vitae. If over the person's lifetime he produces multiple CVs, then collectively they are his curricula vitae. By contrast a bundle of CVs of different people would collectively be their curricula vitarum. Vitae is the genitive singular, and...

Hi, Not quite... Although it is true that vitae can be the nominative plural of vita (i.e. life used as a subject), it can also be its genitive singular form (i.e. life's , or of life ). If interested, please have a look at this page from Wikipedia about the first declension in Latin. The...

Hi, ' Victory of the People ' can be translated as ' populi victoria ' or ' victoria populi ' (the position of words is flexible in Latin, since words are inflected). However, the correct translation depends on a number of factors, such as the way you define ' people...

It's all to do with gender. Cactus and fungus are masculine nouns of which the proper plural ends in -i. Corpus is actually a neuter noun. Hence, the proper plural (nominative case) ends in -a. It's 'corpora' rather than 'corpa' because the genitive singular case defines...

Hi, The short answer would be: such question are dangerous, try and learn them by heart! The long answer is: in Latin, they have different inflected forms because they belong to two different "classes": 2nd declension and 3rd declension : Fungus (same inflected forms in...

for name in Old English e g how English was spoken 1000 years ago was nama In the accusative it was naman

didn't anyone study latin over here?.. Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive , Dative and Ablative.

None of these names for cases applies much to Modern English; we have neither an accusative nor a dative case and many linguists might argue we do not even have a true genitive (just a "clitic s"). Nouns have an all-purpose "base case" and a possessive form. My dog is big/I see a dog ....

Hi, How likely might it be that the Dative case got its name from something other than dare ? Well, 'give' for Dative seems a pretty plausible theory to me, since you 'give to ' someone. Now I've googled a bit, and there's lots of info availalbe for review. For example: From...

Hi, Here are a few comments, drawn mostly from recollections of my Latin studies many years ago. My apologies if you know this stuff already. To understand cases, you need to look not only at Old English but, further back, at Latin and then Greek. Latin Cases are: Nominative, Vocative...