<br /><br />Oh! I forgot that most books start off with only certain verb parts. "puto, putare, putavi, putat(um)" are the four principal parts of the verb. <br /><br />
puto- 1st person present active indicative singular. I.E. "I think"<br />
putare- active infinitive. I.E. "to think"<br />
putavi- 1st person perfect active indicative singular. I.E. "I have thought"<br />
putat(um/a/us)- perfect passive participle. This is a fully declinable adjective. It means "having been thought" or just the adjective "thought" as in "a thought idea".<br /><br />You are fine if you know just the "puto" and "putare", until you want to express some complex ideas... such as participles and tenses. There are regular patterns in the forms, so you don't have to memorize them for all verbs, but for most verbs you do have to memorize all four forms
<br />You can just ignore the second two parts (for now >:( )<br /><br />I'm glad you enjoyed Words; it's an efficient and convenient resource.<br /><br /><br />Oh, and Marie would be "Maria". It means "the seas", the plural of "mare" (another third declension noun). I think the name itself is first declension, so feel free to use it!
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae
<br /><br />Which Latin-English dictionary (book) do you use and what do you like about it ?<br /><br />I was thinking (yes, I do that sometimes!) about getting a Latin-English Dictionary. I find myself wondering what suchandsuch word is in Latin and don't have anywhere to go to look it up. Yesterday I was wondering what the word for "computer" was. I wanted to say "John's computer". I guess that in Latin it would be "John [computer]-ae" ? My preferred dictionary would have a lot of entries<br /><br />For example, my French-English Dictionary is the Harper Collins Robert Unabridged which I like for its many entries (850,000 according to the cover). It contains lots of example usages for a word.<br /><br />Which Latin-English dictionary on CDROM (if there are any) would you recommend ?<br /><br />OK, I have to admit that I spend most of my waking moments in front of some sort of computer and I do most of my "work" on the computer so I would naturally be interested in some sort of Latin-English Dictionary software. Are there any good ones out there ? I would prefer software that will install onto the hard drive so I wouldn't have to keep the CD in the drive to use it ... cuz my Le Robert (Fr) Dictionary on CD requires the CD in the drive, and I would find it a an inconvenience to have to swap CDs all the time).o<br /><br />Are there any Latin-English dictionares on the internet ?<br /><br />I find it handy to do quick lookups on the internet for Fr/Eng; is there a similar animal on the internet for Latin ?<br /><br /><br />
<br /><br />To use the Latin dictionary:<br /><br />Click on Tools near the top of the page.<br /><br />Click on Dictionary Entry Lookup.<br /><br />Type in the dictionary form of the word you're looking for or the first few letters in the box where it says Find.<br /><br />Change the tab Greek to Latin<br /><br />And press Submit Query.<br /><br />--- <br />To look up the Latin for an English word:<br /><br />Click on Tools near the top of the page.<br /><br />Click on English to Latin Word Search.<br /><br />Type the English word in the Look for box.<br /><br />Press Do Search<br />---<br />If you can't work out what on earth a particular form is:<br /><br /><br />Click on Tools near the top of the page.<br /><br />Click on Latin Morphological Analysis.<br /><br />Type the form in the box marked Form.<br /><br />Press Analyze Form.<br /><br />It will give you the dictionary form, which you can click on to consult the dictionary, and tell you what form you've got.<br /><br /> 
), and names the authors who have been recorded as having used each word.<br /><br /><br />
