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Latin Teacher (no login)
Posted Apr 16, 2006 3:35 PM
Latin is an inflected language, meaning that direct objects, indirect objects, subjects, predicate adjectives, prepositions, etc all take different case endings. In the example of "filius", the phrase is "in the name OF the father, OF the son" meaning that the noun used will show possession and is therefore in the genitive case. For father/patris, a third declension noun, "OF the father" is "patris"; for filius, a second declension noun, "OF the son" is filii (or fili, both ways are correct these days).
You know, I really liked this movie... but seeing people get all huffy over a simple matter of grammar strikes me as puerile. And yeah, that's Latin too. |
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