Been watching your videos for probably a few years now, but I’m finally teaching a Latin 100 class while I’m pursuing my Masters, so I’ll definitely be making use of these videos.
This video has led to me discovering my new favorite word in Latin. My name is Kris, and when I started leaning Latin a few years ago I wanted to know if my name meant anything in Latin. There is no Kris, but Cris with a C is a word, a verb stem, and it forms a gerundive as Crisandus, which amused me, as it highly vulgar
The explanations are very clear. Thanks! Idiotically, I never imagined that the names of grammatical constructions, like “gerund,” derive from actual words whose first-order meaning the derivations later referenced. In fact, the referent here becomes its own antecedent! Now I’m wondering whether that’s a linguistic meta-phenomenon or my own trivial discursive, reverse-engineered, epistemic recursion . . . where’s Wittgenstein the one time I sprout a seedling he might actually harvest?
A plan of taking the city and a plan of the city that will be taken mean different things. But if the latin construction means the first then it's a property of the construction as a whole not of the gerundive meaning because there is an implied "taking": a plan of (taking) a city that will be taken. It's common in most languages for participle forms to have different constructions whose meanings are best memorized as whole without trying to make that a meaning of the participle. English passive is a common example.
Glad to see you back. Quick question: at 5:58, is the epistulīs scrībendīs part in the ablative or dative form? And what would the name of this construction be? (e.g. dative of purpose, etc.)
Speaking of participles, I wanted to ask about the following: I am aware of the fact that Latin didn’t have perfect active and present passive participles. The question is what they used instead? I am just new to Latin, would be glad if you help
You could use a perfect participle of a deponent verb (e.g., locūtus, having spoken) as a perfect active, and in fact, many texts teach it in this way. But if you can't, you can always use a subordinate clause, like one introduced by qui (who, that) or dum (while).
