"Nouns are inflected for number and case"
Understanding of Latin grammar and vocabulary.
Latin Alphabet: Learn the 23 letters of the Latin alphabet, pronunciation and sound values.
Latin Grammar: Know the basic grammatical structures, word order, and inflectional endings. This will help you to start reading and writing sentences in Latin.
Vocabulary: Build a foundational vocabulary of Latin words, including verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. It will allow you to read and understand Latin texts.
Pronunciation: Learn how to correctly pronounce the Latin letters and syllables. This will help you communicate with other Latin speakers and make it easy to understand what you're saying.
Latin syntax: Learn how to form complete sentences in Latin, how to identify subject, object, and verb.
Latin verbs: Learn the conjugation of verbs, and how to form verb tense.
Latin nouns: Learn how to decline Latin nouns in different cases, genders and numbers.
Latin adjectives: Understand how Latin adjectives agree with nouns in cases, gender and numbers.
Latin pronouns: Learn how to use Latin pronouns correctly and which cases they take.
Latin prepositions: Learn how to use prepositions in Latin, and how they govern cases.
Latin participles: Learn how to form and use participles in Latin.
Latin infinitives: Understand infinitives in Latin and how they are used.
Latin adverbs: Learn how to form and use adverbs in Latin.
Latin conjunctions: Understand how to use conjunctions in Latin to form complex sentences.
Latin numerals: Know how to use Latin numerals and the Roman numerals system.
Classical Latin literature: Understand the literary works of the classical era, and how to appreciate their literary value.
Christian Latin Literature: Study the religious literature in Latin and how it influenced medieval culture.
Latin poetry: Study the language of poets and the techniques used in Latin poetry.
Latin prose: Understand the style, tone and structure of Latin prose.
Latin historical texts: Study political and historical texts in Latin to understand the evolution of the Latin language.
Classical Latin: The form of Latin used during the classical period of Ancient Rome, from the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE.
Late Latin: Latin used in the late Roman Empire from the 3rd to 6th centuries CE, characterized by a shift in grammatical structure and vocabulary.
Medieval Latin: Latin used in Europe during the Middle Ages from the 6th to the 16th centuries CE, mixing classical Latin with vernacular influences.
Humanistic Latin: A revival of classical Latin during the Renaissance, emphasizing the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts.
Ecclesiastical Latin: Latin used by the Catholic Church, from the 4th century CE to the present day, with some differences from classical Latin in usage and vocabulary.
Neo-Latin: Latin used in scientific, legal, and religious texts from the Renaissance to the present day, with new terms coined to describe modern concepts.
Vulgar Latin: The spoken form of Latin used by the common people, from which the Romance languages (such as Italian, Spanish, and French) evolved.
Golden Age Latin: Latin from the golden age of Roman literature, with works by Virgil, Ovid, and Horace.
Silver Age Latin: Latin from the period after the Augustan Age, with works by Seneca, Lucan, and Statius.
Christian Latin: Latin works with a Christian theme, from St. Augustine's Confessions to Dante's Divine Comedy.
"Pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender"
"Verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood"
"Verbs can take any of over 100 different endings to express different meanings"
"Most verbal forms consist of a single word"
"Some tenses are formed from part of the verb sum 'I am' added to a participle"
"Classified things belong to one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter"
"The gender of the classified thing is realized by the last syllables of the adjectives, numbers and pronouns that refer to it"
"There are also two numbers: singular and plural"
"Most nouns have five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, and ablative"
"Nouns for people have the vocative case"
"Nouns for places have a seventh case, the locative"
"There is no definite or indefinite article in Latin"
"Latin word order tends to be subject–object–verb"
"An adjective can come either before or after a noun"
"Latin is a pro-drop language; that is, pronouns in the subject are usually omitted except for emphasis"
"Latin exhibits verb framing in which the path of motion is encoded into the verb"
"In this article, a line over a vowel indicates that it is long"
"rēx 'the king' (subject), but rēgem 'the king' (object)"
"rēx can mean 'king', 'a king', or 'the king' according to context"