Saxony Abitur Latin flashcards
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- lemma
- A dictionary headword used to identify a word before interpreting its inflected form within a particular sentence.
- declension
- A pattern of noun or adjective inflection whose endings encode grammatical distinctions such as case and number.
- case
- A grammatical category marking relationships within a construction, whose exact function depends on context and governing words.
- agreement
- A relationship in which linked words match relevant grammatical categories, without necessarily displaying identical written endings.
- antecedent
- The expression to which a relative pronoun refers, normally supplying gender and number while not automatically supplying its case.
- deponent
- A verb with forms resembling passive inflection but ordinarily an active meaning, requiring attention to its principal parts.
- indirect statement
- A reported assertion that in Latin often uses an accusative subject and infinitive after an appropriate governing verb.
- relative time
- The temporal relationship of an embedded action to another action, rather than simply its relationship to the present moment.
- ablative absolute
- A circumstantial construction using an ablative noun or pronoun with an agreeing participle, adjective or noun outside ordinary main-clause syntax.
- gerund
- A Latin verbal noun occurring in singular oblique-case forms and representing an action as a grammatical nominal expression.
- gerundive
- A verbal adjective that agrees with a noun and has a passive association, notably expressing necessity when combined with esse.
- main predication
- The central assertion of a clause, connecting what is said with its relevant participants and grammatical structure.
- referent
- The person, thing or proposition identified by a pronoun or other referring expression in its surrounding discourse.
- literal translation
- A close structural rendering useful for initial analysis, which still requires revision when target-language grammar or meaning demands it.
- contextual inference
- A conclusion supported by the supplied linguistic and situational evidence, distinguished from information explicitly stated in the passage.
- polysemy
- The existence of related meanings within a word, requiring readers to select the sense justified by the actual passage.
- principal parts
- Selected dictionary forms that identify a verb’s stems and allow the reader to recognise forms beyond its present tense.
- case government
- The requirement imposed by a verb, preposition or construction for a dependent expression to appear in a particular case.
- learned borrowing
- A later adoption of a classical form that may preserve features changed in words inherited through ordinary spoken development.
- etymon
- The historically earlier form from which a later word derives, distinguished from a modern derivative produced from that source.