People who know Latin, I need help
I need to define the word "praeterībant" for my homework, but I can't find out what it means. All I know is that it is a verb. Can someone good at Latin help me out?
New Granada
22-03-2005, 03:22
I need to define the word "praeterībant" for my homework, but I can't find out what it means. All I know is that it is a verb. Can someone good at Latin help me out?
is it an english word or a latin word?
I've got the OED and i'd be happy to look it up in the former case.
The mark over the i tells me 'latin' though i'll admit.
is it an english word or a latin word?
I've got the OED and i'd be happy to look it up in the former case.
The mark over the i tells me 'latin' though i'll admit.
It's in latin, and I need to know what it means in English.
Autocraticama
22-03-2005, 03:29
I need to define the word "praeterībant" for my homework, but I can't find out what it means. All I know is that it is a verb. Can someone good at Latin help me out?
It means "they were disregarding" or "they were neglecting" It's imperfect past. (denoted by the ba)
The stem is praeterire which means to disregard.
It means "they were disregarding" or "they were neglecting" It's imperfect past. (denoted by the ba)
The stem is praeterire which means to disregard.
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Bodies Without Organs
22-03-2005, 03:32
I need to define the word "praeter?bant" for my homework, but I can't find out what it means. All I know is that it is a verb. Can someone good at Latin help me out?
It's the verb for 'passing by'... so that makes it something like 'they pass by', but I could be wrong on the tense.
Autocraticama
22-03-2005, 03:32
Thank you so much. I am forever in your debt!
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Autocraticama
22-03-2005, 03:33
It's the verb for 'passing by'... so that makes it something like 'they pass by', but I could be wrong on the tense.
they were passing by...imperfect tense.....good job though.
Bodies Without Organs
22-03-2005, 03:36
they were passing by...imperfect tense.....good job though.
Tenses I never was much good on... and its been a frightening 20 years or so since I last studied latin, so I'll forgive myself that one. I will say it didn't look particularly like the present tense to me, but I reckoned the OP would at least be able to work out the tense themself.
Autocraticama
22-03-2005, 03:40
i took 4 semester of latin...total 20 hours (each semester was 5 hours...and i typically took them at 730 in the morning)