Questions tagged [compound-noun]
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Translating "east–west" and "north–south"
In many railway transit systems, the lines connecting the north/east part and the south/west part of a city are called "North–South Line" and "East–West Line". In many languages ...
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Is an infinitive as a noun neuter in gender?
On p37 in Keller's Learn to Read Latin:
The infinitive is an abstract verbal noun in the neuter singular. It
is indeclinable; that is, although it is a noun, it does not have
case endings, and it ...
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What is the verb in Πρωτεσίλαος?
Continuing in my chain of questions about Homeric names, I now understand that Πενθεσίλεια is a "terpsimbrotos" compound. This makes sense to me.
However, Nagy mentions this name alongside ...
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Any relationship between the parts of speech of the word to which a prefix can apply and of the word from which a prefix is derived?
Keller's Learn to Read Latin says
Compound Verbs, Prefixes, Assimilation, and Vowel Weakcning
A compound verb (< compono, put together) is a verb formed from the
combination of a simple, or ...
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Compounds in -ια and -σις
I greatly enjoy finding properly constructed (i.e. non hybrid grammatically ancient) equivalents to pseudo-classic neologisms.
That is the background.
I was wondering what the proper translation would ...
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