Why are there three endings for adjectives in meus glossiarium latinus?
I can look up the word “dictionary” on the English side and get “glossiarium”. But I can’t find “glossiarium” on the Latin side of the dictionary. Why is this?
To give you a clue for the endings for the masculine, femine, and neuter endings. Adjectives have to have the same gender and case as the noun they’re describing.
So if we take the adjective bonus -a -um, for example, we have:
ancilla bona == good maid
equus bonus == good horse
bellum bonum == good war
Note that it has to agree in gender, not in the ending. So:
agricola bonus == good farmer.
Later on, things get more complicated. If all adjectives had the same predictable set of endings you wouldn’t need this information in the dictionary, but unfortunately they don’t.
So that would be “meum glossiarium Latinum”… Bingley beat me to the meat of the the post :-\
tacebo
The first set of adjectives we covered were all -a adjectives, such as bona. We also covered how the adj agrees with the noun. And we even had pilum bonum as an example. I thought that “bonum” just morphed from the same “bona” we learned earlier.
Then I was perplexed by your “urbem pulcherimam” earlier. We’ve learned pulchra so I thought that pulcherimam somehow morphed from that, but I couldn’t figure it out. Not surprising since we haven’t really gotten into it yet.
I looked in the dictionary and found “pulcher, -chra, -chrum”. OK, it’s an adjective and I get the meaning of it. But I couldn’t figure out your -imam ending. And the ending didn’t match the one for “urbum”.
Then I was working through an exercise in BLD on my way home. One of the phrases was “bone popule”. Huh? I know the second word comes from “populus”, so it’s one of the -us noun cases. Aha! It’s VOC! OK, now to figure out “bone”. Well, I knew about bona. I looked in the dictionary and found “bonus, bona, bonus”. Then I remembered the example in the book about “pilum bonum”, from pilus which is neuter. Aha! Light Bulb lights up. “Bone” is the VOC of “bonus”. The three adjectives are for each of the three forms : masculine, feminine, and neuter! I was so pleased at this revelation. ;D
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So that would be “meum glossiarium Latinum”[/quote]
Since I just got my hands on a dictionary, I know enough to be dangerous. ;D I just looked up “my” and found meus, mea, and meum. Cool, I get why there are three listed ! 
So…
meum glossiarium Latinum = my Latin dictionary
meus caseus Gallicus = my French cheese
mea sella trita = my old chair
meus liber dilectus = my favorite book
You got the basic meaning of pulcherrimam. It’s actually a superlative (the most beautiful). Another thing to look forward to ;D.
watch out, Marie’s on fire! 
agreed, mariek be disturbing me! especially with that freak of a picture. is it just me or is that petrifyingly evil??
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agreed, mariek be disturbing me! especially with that freak of a picture. is it just me or is that petrifyingly evil??
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It’s just you.
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watch out, Marie’s on fire!
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She’s gonna have to be careful that dictionary doesn’t get caught in the flames! Way fun to watch someone else learning… ;D
Kilmeny
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It’s just you.
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[quote author=bingley link=board=3;threadid=267;start=0#1546 date=1058518745]
It’s actually a superlative (the most beautiful). Another thing to look forward to ;D.[/quote]
Oh boy! We get to manipulate adjectives further, as if having three different endings for each adjectives wasn’t enough. I can’t wait. I may bitch and moan about it, but I love a challenge.
I wonder when BLD starts talking about the superlative..
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agreed, mariek be disturbing me! especially with that freak of a picture. is it just me or is that petrifyingly evil??[/quote]
Hey! What’s wrong with mea pictura ?? It must only be you. If you’re wondering, it’s a picture of a character on a Japanese animated series. I had a previous one which I liked much better, but the link “expired” (for lack of better word; the image just stopped appearing one day). So I had to choose another one. And it’s quite a challenge to find a pic that isn’t overly large.
Maybe I should find a different image, one that truly is evil looking… so much that per somnium exterrebis (you’ll have nightmares) ! ;D
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Way fun to watch someone else learning… ;D [/quote]
Brings back good memories, eh? I picked up the Bantam New College Lat-Eng Dictionary because it’s a good portable size. I’m carrying it with me everywhere I go. Isn’t that insane? I carry a bigger bag on weekdays, but a small purse on weekends. I think I need a bigger purse! I even put a bookcover on it; I was surprised to find out I remembered how to make one out of a plain brown paper bag. It’s been years since I last did that.
Only animated stuff that I watch non liberis est ;D
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Only animated stuff that I watch non liberis est ;D
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Ah… like the new Stan Lee invention?
How do you say “animation” (in the cartoon sense) in Latin? animatio isn’t quite the word for this.
liberis intueor = I watch animation for children ???
Well, I’ve found a new image just for you.
I’m fairly sure the Romans had no animations, but flipbooks perhaps. We would probably have to invent a word, or just call them (moving/living) drawings or something. If anyone has a source for Neo Latin, they may have stuck a term to it as well… but I know of no such resource.
Picturae animantes? or for those who haven’t reached 3rd declension adjectives… picturae vivae. Anybody else have an idea?
Moving pictures: picturae moventes? or imagines moventes?
Ingrid
mariek your picture freaks me out! And I was not permitted to have a picture of a hot piece of ‘praeda’ !! ;D