The Accidence, or First Rudiments of the Latin Tongue: Being the First Part of the New Eton Latin Grammar (to the End of Three Concords) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Accidence, or First Rudiments of the Latin Tongue: Being the First Part of the New Eton Latin Grammar (to the End of Three Concords)

Some substantives are called common, being such as denote an occupation or quality common to both males and females, and admitting adjectives of either the mas culine or feminine gender to be joined with them, accord ing as the subject is male or female as, meus parens, or mea parens, my parent, according as the father or mother is spoken of.

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Excerpt from The Accidence, or First Rudiments of the Latin Tongue: Being the First Part of the New Eton Latin Grammar (to the End of Three Concords)

The Latin Letters are thus written:

Capitals.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z.

Small, or common.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z.

Of these Letters, six arc named Vowels; a, e, i, o, u} y. The rest are called consonants.

A vowel makes a full and perfect sound of itself, as e.

A consonant cannot be sounded without a vowel, as be.

Consonants are divided into liquids, double letters, and mutes.

The liquids are I, m, n, r: The double letters arc j, x, z: The remaining letters are called mutes.

A syllabic is a distinct sound of one, or more letters, pronounced in a breath.

A diphthong is the sound of two vowels in one syllable. There arc six diphthongs, ae, ai, au, ei, eu, oe.

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