WebLatin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.There are five declensions, which are numbered and grouped by ending and …

WebProto-Indo-European nominals include nouns, adjectives, and pronouns.Their grammatical forms and meanings have been reconstructed by modern linguists, based on similarities found across all Indo-European languages.This article discusses nouns and adjectives; Proto-Indo-European pronouns are treated elsewhere. The Proto-Indo …

WebSumerian (Cuneiform: 𒅴𒂠 Emegir "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer.It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 3000 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as a …

WebHurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. Hurrian was the language of the Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and was likely spoken at least initially in Hurrian settlements in modern-day Syria.It is generally believed …

WebIn grammar, the dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "Maria Jacobo potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink". In this example, the dative marks what would be considered the indirect object of a verb in …

WebExamples of ablative materials are described below, and include spacecraft material for ascent and atmospheric reentry, ice and snow in glaciology, biological tissues in medicine and passive fire protection materials. Artificial intelligence. In ... In the case of silicone, organic rubber surrounds very finely divided silica dust (up to 380 m² of combined …

WebLatin. The accusative case in Latin has minor differences from the accusative case in Proto-Indo-European (PIE).Nouns in the accusative case (accusativus) can be used: as a direct object;; to indicate duration of time, e.g., multos annos, "for many years"; ducentos annos, "for 200 years"; this is known as the accusative of duration of time, to indicate …

WebA passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed. This contrasts with active voice, in which the subject has the agent role. …

WebAlice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll.It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved …

WebThe first word varies between illegitimi and illegitimis.Illegitimi is presumably the nominative plural of illegitimus meaning "unlawful" or "outlaw" in Latin, but interpreted as English "illegitimate" in the sense of "bastard", in this case, used as a generic insult.. Illegitimis may be intended as an ablative plural, but if carborundum is intended to resemble a …