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Scanlon's Latin Grammar - Essan.org

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SECOND LATIN<br />

apple is a substantia, but redness and sweetness are accidentia existing<br />

in the apple.<br />

2. Materia, forma. Every material thing is constituted of materia<br />

prima and forma. The forma is a determining element of any reality.<br />

All bodily things have in common materia prima. Each thing's forma<br />

is what makes it distinct from every other thing. Forma substantialis<br />

makes a thing a substantia of a precise essential nature. Materia prima<br />

is that which all material things have in common. It never actually<br />

exists except as being "informed" by a forma substantialis.<br />

Deponent verbs.<br />

GRAMMAR<br />

a) A deponent verb is one which is passive in form but active or<br />

reflexive in meaning. The active forms have disappeared except the<br />

particjples, which exist in both voices:<br />

sequens, fol/ouJing<br />

secutus, having follotued<br />

secuturus, about to follow<br />

sequendus, to be followed<br />

b) Most deponents belong to the first conjugation, and these are all<br />

regular.<br />

c) l°he follo\ving common deponents are irregular:<br />

confiteor, confiteri, confessus, to confess<br />

experior, experiri, expertus, to try<br />

fruor, frui, fructus, to enjoy<br />

fungor, fungi, functus, to fulfill<br />

egredior, egredi, egressus, to walk, to depart<br />

irascor, irasci, iratus, to be angry<br />

labor, labi, lapsus, to fall<br />

loquor, loqui, locutus, to speak<br />

metior, metiri, mensus, to measure<br />

morior, mori (moriri), mortuus (moriturus), to die<br />

nanciscor, nancisci, nactus (nanctus), to find, to ge'<br />

nascor, nasci, natus, to be born

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