Questions tagged [locative]
For questions about the locative case.
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Is any word attested in both vocative and locative?
Both the vocative and the locative are pretty rare cases, and not found in all kinds of words.
Is there any word that is attested in both cases in classical Latin?
I prefer the vocative to be distinct ...
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The active and passive infinitives are said to be from locative and dative nouns, respectively: why?
According to this post, the active infinitive was formed as the locative of nouns based on verbal stems. Why was the locative used for the infinitive, rather than, say, the accusative?
The noun genos/...
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Why do so many Latin prepositions of place take the accusative and not the ablative to express location?
When talking about the locative case, Latin grammars generally say that its usage was mostly taken over by the ablative case in Latin. For example: Allen and Greenough say:
Relations of Place are ...
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"Condere vaginae gladium" – locativus?
Salvete congerrones eruditissimi,
modo legi in lexico Latino-Germanico a Henrico Georges confecto (opus Germanicum illi a Lewis & Short conscripto simile atque satis compar) sub lemmate «vagina» ...
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Does a general rule for forming Locative Singular exist?
If I understood right the Locative is mostly to be formed in singular (e.g. domi, ruri, ...).
Some websites say that we just use the same form as the genitive, some websites say that we use the ...
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How is the (rare) Locative Plural formed?
If I understood right the Locative is only to be formed in singular (e.g. domi, ruri, ...).
But when it comes to words (especially cities / small islands) that only exist in Plural (e.g. Athenae) we ...
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Nouns in locative in connection to adjectives (Does every adjective have a locative?)
I've did a bit of research on locatives and which words can form a locative.
On a German website (Link) I found an explanation which words can have a locative:
geographical names (like cities and ...
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Is the locative used with multi-part city names?
The Duolingo Latin course mentions New York a lot.
(I'd rather have it focused on the geography of ancient Italy than the modern US, but that's beside the point now.)
The locative comes up regularly: ...
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Does Malta use the locative?
The locative is used to express a location in a city or a small island, e.g. Romae instead of in Roma.
But it's not entirely clear which islands are small.
I am currently on Malta and I'm curious to ...
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Which common nouns have a locative?
I recently mentioned to someone the mnemonic I'd learned for the locative: "cities, towns, islands smaller than Rhodes, and domus and rus". In other words, only the names of cities, towns, and small ...
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Do the locatives militiae, terrā, marī occur by themselves?
Textbooks tell us that the only common (in the sense of not proper) nouns that have a locative case are rūs "countryside" and domus "home". However, I'm familiar with two expressions that use ...
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Which islands appear in the locative?
Textbooks, when describing the use of the locative, often say it's used with the names of "cities and small islands" (as well as a few nouns like rus). What counts as a "small island"?
Wikipedia says ...
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When did Latin lose the locative? [duplicate]
Latin has, depending on who you ask, 6 or 7 cases. The 7th case is the locative – the Cambridge Latin Course (which I study) does not have it, rather it just lists words like 'domi' as 'at home' – not ...
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Why does the ablative case also include the locative?
In Latin we have the ablative case. Its common uses can be described as instrumental and locative (ablativus loci). But in Slavonic languages we have a distinct locative case.
Did the instrumental ...
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