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Two levels of 'and'
What I am looking for is best illustrate by an example, so please excuse the detour.
In Finnish there are two words for "and": "ja" and "sekä".
When used together, "...
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Is "que" or "et" better for a “God and Family” tattoo?
Hi I’m planning to have a tattoo and I would like to have a translation in Latin of “God and Family”.
Which one is appropriate, "deo et familia" or "deo familiaque"?
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Differences between et and atque [duplicate]
What are the differences between et and atque?
When should each be used?
My current understanding is that they both mean and, although atque implies a slightly closer relationship.
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Can "si etiam" have the same meaning as "etiam si"?
As is well known, "etiam si" is a Latin conjunction that means "even if." Are there any examples in Classical or Medieval Latin in which reversing the word order and saying "si etiam" preserves the ...
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Can you place "et" inside a prepositional phrase?
I became curious about this question as I was translating a passage written by a textbook author. The passage begins,
Poeta Ovidius fabulam de dea Latona et de femina Niobe narrat. (Latin via Ovid)...
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Is the coordinating conjunction necessary in a parallel series of terms?
I just finished translating line 6 of Bellum Gallicum, Book I Ch. I, and the absence of a coordinating conjunction at the end made me wonder.
Belgae ab extremis Galliae finibus oriuntur, pertinent ad ...
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Fieri potest with final ut or explicative quod
Suppose I want to say:
It can happen that my horse dies.
I do not want to say "my horse can die", but I want to keep this structure where the thing that happens is in a subordinate clause.
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What is the difference between cum, quia and quod in a causal clause?
I asked yesterday about the difference between causal clauses and causal relative clauses, and I was surprised by a comment:
apparently there is a difference between causal cum clauses and causal quia ...
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Is the -que in quinque at all related to the conjunction -que?
I noticed that quinque ends in -que. I asked my teacher if this was sheer coincidence or so reason for it. He didn't know but he thought it was coincidental. I, however, think that they probably share ...
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Why does "ut" mean such different things when it has a subjunctive verb vs. an indicative one?
We all know that ut, when paired with a subjunctive, is translated as "in order to" (purpose), "to" (indirect command), and, with some words, "that" (result/fear). However, ut with an indicative ...
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What's the difference between vel, aut, -ve, et cetera?
So I see "vel", "aut", and "-ve" being used (mostly) interchangeably in the Latin I read. Is there any idiomatic difference, or can they be used interchangeably?
For ...
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Are "-que" and "et" equivalent?
I was taught that one can use the '-que' suffix to string together multiple words, in a similar way to putting 'et' between them.
Are these two equivalent? Did one have a connotation in classical (...
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