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Has anyone produced a Latin analyser/stemmer (e.g. for Elasticsearch)?
Learner of Latin and Ancient Greek here.
Elasticsearch has a Greek stemmer, which according to my experiments works very well in my Elasticsearch-based application with Ancient Greek. No doubt that's ...
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Derivation of the Latin Word "fores"
I was reading up on Grimm's law and an example that I saw of voiced aspirated stops becoming voiced stops (dh -> d specifiaclly) was that of the word "dhwer" (door) becoming the word &...
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What is the "fairly outdated grammatical apparatus" in Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar?
Please recommend Reference Grammar for someone with an undergraduate degree in Linguistics says:
I don't know if this commenter had known of the 2006 edn of Allen
and Greenough's New Latin
Grammar
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In what ways Latin is considered to be "imprecise"?
To a rather outstanding @Penelope's answer, @Unbrutal_Russian comments:
... Latin is very imprecise as a whole by the standards of modern European languages, and was pretty imprecise even by Greek ...
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How do I say "semantician/semanticist" in Latin?
I recently came across the intriguing terms, 'semantician' and 'semanticist', both referring to a specialist in semantics. These words are derived from the Ancient Greek root 'sēmantikós'.
My query is ...
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What is the longest distance between a noun in an oblique case and the verb that it attaches to?
What is the longest distance between a noun in an oblique case and the verb that it attaches to, in classical writings?
If you can find and post an example sentence to illustrate how many words that ...
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"Semitic languages" in Classical Latin
The term semiticus is attested in Rudimenta linguae Hebraicae (C. H. Vosen, 1883) but I am more interested in Classical Latin.
In English, the expression "Syro-Arabian languages" is ...
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Should apposition in ancient Greek be identified as juxtaposition or coordination?
I have noticed in Greek grammars that varying descriptions of the syntactic relationship of elements placed side-by-side (with no conjunction) have been alternately described as either A) (...
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Is there a Simple Latin?
For english, a simple version of the language, called Simple English has been defined — an english-based controlled language — as an aid to teaching english to non-native speakers.
Has it ever been an ...
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Why could initial iota not create diphthongs?
In all the textbooks I have seen, the list of Ancient Greek diphthongs are more or less the following:
αι: /ai̯/
ᾳ: /aːi̯/
αυ: /au̯/
ᾱυ /aːu̯/
ει: /ei̯/ > /eː/
ῃ: /ɛːi̯/
ευ: /eu̯/
ηυ: /ɛːu̯/...
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What do brackets and italics mean?
Editions of classical literature often contain words in brackets and (less frequently) in italics. For example, let's open a Bibliotheca Teubneriana edition of Cicero: M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes in ...
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What's the cool killer app of Latin?
I'm about halfway through an introductory course on Latin, and I'm not particularly enjoying it. The problem I'm having is that it's coming across as a very generic, fussy language that's similar to ...
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How is "vinum rubrum" right?
Sorry, I am a beginner so I don't really know much. But doesn't the genetive singular of the word red should be rubri?
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Did Latin ever have a rule of lengthening vowels in monosyllables ending in /s/?
I was surprised by the following portion of "Exceptions to rhotacism", by Kyle Gorman (2012):
Latin has a bimoraic minimal word requirement, implemented by a process of Subminimal ...
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Romans and Ancient Greek language [duplicate]
Is there evidence in the inscriptions, that Romans have realised, that Hellenic languages are very close to theirs own language!? It seems to be that the distinguish was applied to the Etruscan ...
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Latin diphthongs, vowel qualities
There is one existing question on the SE (search for 'ae pronunciation'), but there are nothing equal to my interests.
My googling returned to me nothing too.
So, maybe somebody here know:
nowadays ...
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Can gender be kept from Latin to a descend language? Are there patterns for this?
I read this in a random forum:
"Words neuter in Latin become masculine in Spanish"
(For instance "vāsum" = el vaso)
Could it be some patterns making predictable the gender from Latin to a descend ...
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