Salvē. │ Hello.
Audīsne hunc strepitum horridum? │ Do you
hear this dreadful noise?
Est diēs ventōsus, procellōsus. │ It’s a windy, stormy day.
Ventī vehementer flant. │ The winds are blowing strongly
(violently).
Quid est ventus? │ What is the
wind?
Est unda āeris quae ¦ hūc illūc ¦
movētur. │ It’s a wave of air which ¦ is moved ¦
here and there [literally: to here and to there
= older English hither and thither]
Et unde venit? │ And where does
it come from?
Orīgō seu prīncipium ¦ mōtuum ¦
ventōrum est sōl. │ But the origin or beginning ¦ of the
movements ¦ of the winds is the sun. [seu = sīve = or]
Notes
[i] 4th declension nouns:
mōtus, -ūs [4/m]: movement
strepitus, -ūs [4/m]: noise; din
If you’re new to Latin, this is something you need to look
out for. Most nouns ending in -us belong to a huge group called the
2nd declension with their own set of endings. However, the -us ending
alone does not tell you that: strepitus and motus look
like 2nd declension nouns, but they’re not – they belong to the 4th
declension and have a different set of endings.
When a Latin word is given in, for example, a dictionary or
a vocabulary list, it will be listed with [i] its nominative singular form and
[ii] its genitive singular. It is the genitive singular that tells you the
declension the noun belongs to.
Compare:
[1] ventus [nominative singular], ventī [genitive
singular], usually abbreviated to ventus, -ī: a second
declension noun and it is the genitive that is telling you
that
[2] strepitus [nominative singular], strepitūs [genitive
singular] > strepitus, -ūs: a fourth declenion noun and,
again, it is the genitive giving you that information
https://www.facebook.com/groups/latinforstarters/permalink/470682685543005
[ii] Expressions about the weather in Latin have been done
to death! The links to all posts about the weather are here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/latinforstarters/posts/478446208099986/
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