In Nova Corpora

Verba

The new words of this chapter, as the book glosses them. Keep them, and they come back for review just before you would forget them.

• orīgō -inis (f)prīmum initium, fōns rērum
• mundus -ī (m)caelum, terra, mare — omnia
• perpetuus -a -umcontinuus, sine fīne
• prōmittō -eredīcō mē factūrum esse
• vultus -ūs (m)faciēs, speciēs
• mōlēs -is (f)massa ingēns sine fōrmā
• sēmen -inis (n)prīncipium parvum ex quō rēs crēscit
• tellūs -ūris (f)terra (verbum poētārum)
• līs lītis (f)pugna, contrōversia
• dirimō -erepugnam fīniō, sēparō
• pondus -eris (n)gravitās reī
• umor -ōris (m)aqua, rēs ūmida
• vallis -is (f)locus humilis inter montēs
• frōns frondis (f)folia arborum
• sīdus -eris (n)stēlla, ignis caelī
• volucris -is (f)avis, animal volāns
• opifex -icis (m)quī opus manibus facit
• fingō -eremanibus fōrmō
• effigiēs -ēī (f)imāgō, fōrma similis
• prōnus -a -umin terram versus, nōn ērēctus
• vindex -icis (m)quī iūs dēfendit, quī malōs pūnit
• ēnsis -is (m)gladius (verbum poētārum)
• ōtium -ī (n)tempus sine labōre
• sponte (adv)ex vōluntāte suā, nūllō cōgente
• vōmer -eris (m)ferrum arātrī
• glāns glandis (f)frūctus quercūs, arboris Iovis
• vēr vēris (n)tempus annī flōrum
• stillō -ārelentē cadō ut guttae
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• glāns
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• arātrum et vōmer
• prōlēs -is (f)genus novum, fīliī
• hiems -emis (f)tempus annī frīgidum
• antrum -ī (n)locus cavus in saxō
• iugum -ī (n)lignum super colla boum
• nefās (n indēcl)scelus contrā deōs
• fraus fraudis (f)dolus quō alter dēcipitur
• noverca -ae (f)uxor patris, nōn māter vēra
• venēnum -ī (n)malum quod necat, in cibō datum
• supplex -icisquī summissē rogat
• minor -ārīmalum prōmittō, terreō
• arista -ae (f)summa pars frūmentī
• gravidus -a -umplēnus frūctū

Lege

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Grammatica

Superlative adjectives in -issimus

Quia gravissima est

The superlative of most adjectives is made by adding -issimus, -a, -um to the stem, so gravis becomes gravissimus. It means 'very' or 'most', and it agrees with its noun like any other adjective: here terra is feminine, so gravissima.