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Verb Of Fearing
In Latin grammar, a verb of fearing is one that pertains to fear or concern (often ''timeo'', ''terreor'', ''metuo'', and ''vereor''). This set of verbs is grammatically notable because it inverts the sense of a following purposive clause, at least relative to the intuition of speakers of many non-Latin languages. Usage Verbs of fearing can be used in three different ways: fear of a person or thing, fear of performing an action and fear of an event occurring. * Fear of a person or thing is expressed using a verb of fearing (e.g. ''timeo'') and a noun, either in the dative or the accusative. Mountford notes that there is no general rule on which case should be used, although different meanings can be conveyed depending on use. ** ''hostes timet'' – 'he fears the enemy'. ** ''filio timet pater'' – 'the father fears for his son'. ** ''furem pomis timet agricola'' – 'the farmer fears the thief for his apples'. * Fear of performing an action is expressed using an infinitive, mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Grammar
Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood. The inflections are often changes in the ending of a word, but can be more complicated, especially with verbs. Thus verbs can take any of over 100 different endings to express different meanings, for example "I rule", "I am ruled", "to rule", "to be ruled". Most verbal forms consist of a single word, but some tenses are formed from part of the verb "I am" added to a participle; for example, "I was led" or "he is going to lead". Nouns belong to one of three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). The gender of a noun is shown by the adjectives and pronouns that refer to it: e.g., "this man", "this woman", "this name". There are also two numbers: singular ( "woman") and plural ( "women"). A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear
Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to oneself. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear ( horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis. In humans and other animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus, fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia. Fear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats that are percei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Clause
A final clause in linguistics is a dependent adverbial clause expressing purpose. For this reason it is also referred to as a ''purposive clause'' or a ''clause of purpose''. In English, final clauses are relatively rare. A final clause is a reply to a question containing the question word ''wherefore'' or ''what for'' (sometimes also ''why''). The prescription for their construction is rather complicated: A final clause is introduced by the following linking words (conjunctions): * that (sometimes preceded by ''in order'' or ''so'', or, in literary language, ''to the end'') * lest (equivalent to ''that not'', sometimes with the meaning ''for fear that'', both of these naturally belonging to the ''that'' category) Depending on the conjunction used, two forms of final clause exist: * if ''that'' is used, the final clause takes may in the present and future, and might in the past, sometimes also shall because of the Latin subjunctive ** Wherefore do you play the violin? – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Legibus
The ''De Legibus'' (''On the Laws'') is a dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of the Roman Republic. It bears the same name as Plato's famous dialogue, ''The Laws''. Unlike his previous work ''De re publica,'' in which Cicero felt compelled to set the action in the times of Scipio Africanus Minor, Cicero wrote this work as a fictionalized dialogue between himself, his brother Quintus and their mutual friend Titus Pomponius Atticus. The dialogue begins with the trio taking a leisurely stroll through Cicero's familial estate at Arpinum and they begin to discuss how the laws should be. Cicero uses this as a platform for expounding on his theories of natural law of harmony among the classes. The three surviving books (out of an indeterminate number, although Jonathan Powell and Niall Rudd in their translation for Oxford seem to argue that it may have been six, to bring it in line with the number in ''de re publica''), in order, expound on Cicero's belief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Plancio
Pro is an abbreviation meaning "professional". Pro, PRO or variants thereof may also refer to: People * Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican priest * Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter * Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retired footballer * Derek Minor (PRo; born 1984), hip-hop singer * Mike Awesome (1965–2007), a.k.a. The Pro, American wrestler Michael Lee Alfonso * Pro Wells, American football player Occupations * Prostitute, slang abbreviation * Public relations officer Linguistics * PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO") * pro (linguistics) ("little pro") Political parties * ', (Progressive Party), Chile * ' (Republican Proposal), Argentina * ' (Party for a Rule of Law Offensive), former German party Organizations * ', the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation * Performance rights organisation * Producer Responsibility Organisation * Professional Referee Organization, for North American soccer * Provincial Research Organization, Canadian initiatives * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verb Types
A verb () is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle ''to'', is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. Verbs have tenses: present, to indicate that an action is being carried out; past, to indicate that an action has been done; future, to indicate that an action will be done. For some examples: * I ''washed'' the car yesterday. * The dog ''ate'' my homework. * John ''studies'' English and French. * Lucy ''enjoys'' listening to music. *Barack Obama ''became'' the President of the United States in 2009. ''(occurrence)'' *Mike Trout ''is'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
