Does anyone happen to know where I can find a comprehensive list of Latin suffixes?? The best I can find is the list at the end of Wheelock’s, but this seems to leave a number of them out.
You may not mean suffixes. Do you mean inflexional endings associated with case?
Wheelock’s list is rather complete of these — it’s the only thing that particular book is good for.
No, I actually do mean suffixes. I’ve been looking around, and the Allen & Greenough (which I found on this site) is significantly more detailed and complete than Wheelock’s. This seems pretty good, though it also seems like it might take a bit of work to transfer the info here into a set of flashcards with suffixes, definitions, and derivation paths.
(e.g. ‘tor, sor, trix’ - the agent, the doer, the one who - create nouns from verbs)
It would be ideal if there was some nice table somewhere, though I suppose this is probably way too optimistic.
There are are number of lectures on suffixes given at latinum podcast. Evan uses a 19th century book that is referenced somewhere on the site.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I4sCAAAAQAAJ
The Book is called “Latin Suffixes”
Author: John Tahourdin White
London 1858
You won’t need to make a table, all the work has been done for you already. No point reinventing the wheel.
Another book that I am very fond of is Hickie’s Latin Grammar. (1828)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m60IoakJDBEC
This is a technical grammar, but it has a great advantage in that every word is fully marked for quantity. I think it is wonderful as a reference grammar. It also is based on the method of suffixes and terminations.
(Must have been a good year, Adler was published the same year !)
I made the recordings from “Latin Suffixes” a long time ago, I’m not very happy with them now, but I’m not planning on re-recording them any time soon.
Evan Millner
Thanks for you help everyone! And that suffix book you recommended Evan will work out great. Incidentally, listening to your Adler recordings has been working out great as well, especially since I’ve been learning Latin on my own.