Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

Latin Learning Latin
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747561966/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-4087293-6443825<br />
Hmm, I’m a little dubious about this. I wonder how well it translates and handles things like vernacular and new vocabulary. Also, JKR’s Latin puns will become a little obvious (Prof. Lupin might as well be renamed Mr. Warewolf) and pointing a wand at a locked door and shouting ‘aperto’ is far more dramatic that simply ‘open’. Any thoughts?

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sugèbit

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liber “harrius potter” iter facere domi.

okay, I don’t know the dative case yet, and the verb for travelling looks a little strange. I’m trying to say:

the harry potter book is on the way to my house (right now via amazon).

please help!

[I’m very excited about this. :slight_smile: ]

Also, I am confused by this sentence

“Harrius Potter et philosophi lapis”.

I understand that Harrius Potter is the subject of the sentence and that philosophi is a second declension genetive singular noun, but I’m confused by lapis. isn’t lapis in the nominative singular case (3rd decl.) when it should be in the accusative case?

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Lapis is in the nominative case… there’s no verb, because it’s just a title. There isn’t any need for an ablative unless “Harrius Potter” is doing something to the “lapis”.

Philosophi= philosopher’s (gen.)
Lapis= stone (nom.)

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Thank you. Sorry, I was being thick. Of course it’s not accusative because there is no verb!

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Also, Episcope, non suget (suget= will suck).

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[quote author=Mansella link=board=3;threadid=271;start=0#1686 date=1058753007]
liber “harrius potter” iter facere domi.

okay, I don’t know the dative case yet, and the verb for travelling looks a little strange. I’m trying to say:
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The verb for travelling might make a little more sense if you break it into two parts - facere = to make/do, and iter = a journey, so the book is making a journey. You’ve got facere in the infinitive there, and it does need a conjugation, but you’re doing fine.

[quote author=Mansella link=board=3;threadid=271;start=0#1686 date=1058753007]
the harry potter book is on the way to my house (right now via amazon).

please help!
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Try this: “Liber ‘Harrius Potter’ domum iter facit.” (Or “domum meam iter facit.”)

“domus” is a special case word… When you’re saying that something is going to most places, you use “ad” + the accusative of the place to which you’re going. Domus is one of the exceptions, and it simply shows up in the accusative without the “ad”.

Kilmeny

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[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=271;start=0#1692 date=1058759162]
Also, Episcope, non suget (suget= will suck).
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eheu! it’s not a short e 3rd conj is it?!

so sugõ, sugis, sugit, sugimus, sugitis, sugunt ??

It looks trucking chinese!

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It’s third conjugation, or else it would have to be sugeo, sugere. You can tell even without the macrons :wink: Also, third and fourth conjugations have a different way of creating tenses (yay!).

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[quote author=benissimus link=board=3;threadid=271;start=0#1744 date=1058830988]
Also, third and fourth conjugations have a different way of creating tenses (yay!).
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Careful! You’ll scare him off! :wink:

Kilmeny