Research Catalog

Title

Wheelock's Latin / Frederic M. Wheelock ; revised by Richard A. LaFleur.

Author

Wheelock, Frederic M.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : HarperResource, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• LaFleur, Richard A.
• Wheelock, Frederic M.

Description

xliv, 511 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The classic beginning Latin texbook offers forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors, along with self-tutorial exercises and an answer key for independent study.

Subjects

• Problems and exercises
• Rome > Civilization > Problems, exercises, etc
• Latin language > Grammar > Problems, exercises, etc

Genre/Form

• Problems and exercises
• Problems and exercises.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Verbs; First and second conjugations: Present infinitive, indicative, and imperative active; Translating -- Nouns and cases; First declension; Agreement of adjectives; Syntax -- Second declension: Masculine nouns and adjectives; Apposition; Word order -- Second declension neuters; Adjectives; Present indicative of sum; Predicate nouns and adjectives; Substantive adjectives -- First and second conjugations: Future and imperfect; Adjectives in -er -- Sum: Future and Imperfect indicative; Possum: Present, future, and imperfect Indicative; Complementary infinitive -- Third declension Nouns -- Third conjugation: Present infinitive, present, future, and imperfect indicative, Imperative -- Demonstratives Hic, Ille, Iste; Special -ius adjectives -- Fourth conjugation and -iō verbs of the third -- Personal pronouns Ego, Tū, and Is; Demonstratives Is and Idem -- Perfect active system of all verbs -- Reflexive pronouns and possessives; Intensive pronoun -- I-stem nouns of the third declension; Ablatives of means, accompaniment, and manner -- Numerals; Genitive of the whole; Genitive and ablative with cardinal numerals; Ablative of time -- Third declension adjectives -- The relative pronoun -- First and second conjugations: Passive voice of the present system; Ablative of agent -- Perfect passive system of all verbs; Interrogative pronouns and adjectives --
• Fourth declension; Ablatives of place from which and separation -- Fifth declension; Ablative of place where; Summary of ablative uses -- Participles -- Ablative absolute; Passive periphrastic; Dative of agent -- Infinitives; Indirect statement -- Comparison of adjectives; Declension of comparatives; Ablative of comparison -- Special and irregular comparison of adjectives -- Subjunctive mood; Present subjunctive; Jussive and purpose clauses -- Imperfect subjunctive; Present and imperfect subjunctive of sum and possum; Result clauses -- Perfect and pluperfect subjunctive; Indirect questions; Sequence of tenses -- Cum clauses; Ferō -- Formation and comparison of adverbs; Volō, Malō, Nolō; Proviso clauses -- Conditions -- Deponent verbs; Ablative with special deponents -- Dative with adjectives; Dative with special verbs; Dative with compounds -- Jussive noun clauses; Fīō -- Conjugation of Eō; Constructions of place and time -- Relative clauses of characteristic; Dative of reference; Supines -- Gerund and gerundive -- -Ne, Num, and Nonne in direct questions; Fear clauses; Genitive and ablative of description -- Locī antīquī -- Locī immūtātī -- Optional self-tutorial exercises -- English-Latin vocabulary -- Latin-English vocabulary -- Location of the sententiae antīquae.

ISBN

• 0060784237 (hc)
• 0060783710 (pbk.)

LCCN

9780060784232 (hc)

OCLC

• 60661105
• SCSB-11191917

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library