I’m on page 42 of Hans Orberg’s Lingua Latina and came across the words “it” and “eunt.” I looked them up using William Whitaker’s Words online dictionary (http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe?it) and discovered that they are listed as being verbs in the sixth dimension, er, I mean declension.
Quid est? Declinatio sextus? Oi!
Rusticus
ire is a verb, and is conjugated. It is conjugated thus:
eo
is
it
imus
itis
eunt
“it” means “he goes” and “eunt” means “they go.”
Oops, I knew that! Serious cerebral gas emissions, illius me paenitet. I meant 6th conjugation.
OK, nunc:
Quid agit? Coniugatio sextus? Oi!
Hic est definitio de Words:
i.t V 6 1 PRES ACTIVE IND 3 S
eo, ire, ivi(ii), itus V [XXXAX]
go, walk; march, advance; pass; flow; pass (time); ride; sail;
Rusticus
I think the program assigns the “6th conjugation” to irregular verbs (although it puts ferre into the third).
Somewhere in the documentation of the program, the author warns users not to take the conjugation/declension numbers too seriously, since they are primarily intended to reflect the organization of data and not to provide grammatical information. And yeah, I’ve been amused by the odd numbers of declensions/conjugations as well.
David