Latin

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The node on the Cuban method gives a good explanation of the interaction between latin dances and ballroom.

The modern Romance languages developed from the spoken Latin of various parts of the Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages and until relatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.

After the Fall of the Roman Empire, Latin became the basis of local spoken forms which evolved in the modern Romance languages. It also continued in a more or less standardized form as the language of law, the sciences, and particularly religion. In this form, it had great influence on the development of the languages of western Europe.

See also: Old Latin, Late Latin, Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin, Silver Latin, Low Latin, Medieval Latin, Modern Latin

Well, for all of you who seek proficiency in a dead language, these are some of my 4 years of Latin notes.

Nouns:
[Nominative Case] - [Genitive Case] - [Dative Case] - [Accusative Case] - [Ablative Case] - [Vocative Case] - [Locative Case]
[First Declension] - [Second Declension] - [Third Declension] - [Fourth Declension] - [Fifth Declension]

Verbs:
[First Conjugation] - [Second Conjugation] - [Third Conjugation] - [Fourth Conjugation]

Adjectives:
Adjective Types
Latin Numbers

Pronouns:
Interrogative Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns


If it's Ancient Greek, however, that you seek proficiency in, take a look at the nodes of Andromache01 and Anacreon... When I finish Latin, I'll start noding my Greek notes, but for now, they have some good material on here...

I refer to the write-up by achan, above.

This rhyme is well-known amongst English public schoolboys. Many years ago, it graced the cover of my orange exercise book, wherein The Aeniad was being slaughtered.

Our Latin master, a great, giant genius of a man who composed Latin iambic pentameter in his head for fun added the following stanza:

Latin lives on among us,
As anyone can see,
For, though I do not know it,
It is civilising me!

Lat"in (?), a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail, under Lateen.]

1.

Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

2.

Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.

Latin Church Eccl. Hist., the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. -- Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross. -- Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin. Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

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Lat"in, n.

1.

A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.

2.

The language of the ancient Romans.

3.

An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin.

Ascham.

4. Eccl.

A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

(Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. -- Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

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Lat"in, v. t.

To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.

Fuller.

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