The Latin grammar of pharmacy for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students, including the reading of Latin prescriptions, Latin-English and English-Latin reference vocabularies and prosody / by Joseph Ince.

  • Ince, Joseph.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The Latin grammar of pharmacy for the use of medical and pharmaceutical students, including the reading of Latin prescriptions, Latin-English and English-Latin reference vocabularies and prosody / by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    words in Latin verse, every syllable of which lias a definite pronunciation. To this great importance is attached. Some words change their signification according to tlieir quantity. Thus mallis (short a) means bad; malus (long a) means an apple iree ; populus (long 5) means a popdar; populus (short 6) means the people. A vowel coming hefore a vowel will he short, and a diplithong or contracted syllahle will he long. There are two numhers, Singular and Plural: the first denotes one ohject; the second, more than one. There are three genders. Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. When either masculine or feminine, the gender is called Commoa NOUNS OR SUBSTANTIVES. Nouns are of five Declensions : in other words, there are five typical forms or patterns according to which they make their cases. These cases are six, and are arranged for con- venience thus :— 1. Nominative. [Nomen, the naming case, or suhject.] 2. Vocative. [Sign, O.] 3. Accusative. The ohject. 4. Genitive. [Sign, ofi\ 5. Dative. [Dare, to give. Sign, to or for.'\ 6. Ahlative. [Sign, by, with, or frorn.'] The endings of the different cases are added to tvhat i4 called the stem, or the part of the word which remains un- changed. The changes which a stem-word undergoes are called Flexions. The five declensions are known hy the Character, that is the last letter of the stem, which stands hefore rum or tm in ihc genitive case plural.