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Learning the Latin Adjectives is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Latin language. But first we need to know what the role of Adjectives is in the structure of the grammar in Latin.
Latin Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
While
in English an adjective doesn’t change when the noun changes, in Latin an
adjective should agree in gender and number with the noun. For example:
a.
Masculine to feminine example:
Hic meus fīlius parvus est. (this is my little son)
becomes: Haec mea fīlia parva est. (this is my little daughter)
As
you can see from the example above, the adjective takes the feminine form.
Because the case of the adjective matches the noun it modifies, word
order is not necessarily important in Latin.
Typically the verb will be at the end of the sentence with the subject
close by.
Here are some examples:
| English Adjectives | Latin Adjectives |
|---|---|
| adjectives | adiectiva |
| a green tree | arbor viridis |
| a tall building | edificium altum |
| a very old man | extremae senectutis homo |
| the old red house | domus rubra vetus |
| a very nice friend | amicus carissimus |
Notice the structure of the Adjectives in Latin.
Below is a list of the Adjectives, Colors, Shapes, Sizes in Latin placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Latin vocabulary.
| English Adjectives | Latin Adjectives |
|---|---|
| colors | colores |
| black | niger color |
| blue | caeruleus color |
| brown | fuscus color |
| gray | cineraceus color |
| green | viridis color |
| orange | luteus color |
| purple | violaceus color |
| red | ruber color |
| white | albus color |
| yellow | flavus color |
| sizes | mensurae |
| big | magnus |
| deep | profundus |
| long | longus |
| narrow | angustus |
| short | brevis |
| small | parvus |
| tall | altus |
| thick | densus |
| thin | gracilis |
| wide | latus |
| shapes | formae |
| circular | rotundus |
| straight | rectus |
| square | quadratus |
| triangular | triangulus |
| tastes | sapores |
| bitter | acerbus |
| fresh | frigidus |
| salty | salsus |
| sour | acidus |
| spicy | piperatus |
| sweet | dulcis |
| qualities | species |
| bad | malus |
| clean | tersus |
| dark | ater |
| difficult | difficilis |
| dirty | sordidus |
| dry | siccus |
| easy | facilis |
| empty | cassus |
| expensive | carus |
| fast | velox |
| foreign | extrarius |
| full | plenus |
| good | bonus |
| hard | durus |
| heavy | gravis |
| inexpensive | insumptuosus |
| light | splendidus |
| local | loci (gen of locus) |
| new | novus |
| noisy | sonans |
| old | vetus |
| powerful | potens |
| quiet | quietus |
| correct | rectus |
| slow | tardus |
| soft | mollis |
| very | valde |
| weak | tenuis |
| wet | madidus |
| wrong | emendosus |
| young | tener |
| quantities | modi |
| few | pauci |
| little | parum |
| many | multi |
| much | multum |
| part | pars |
| some | aliquis |
| a few | aliqui |
| whole | universus |
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