he (she, it) plows_ (arable)
/de:si:derat\, _he (she, it) misses, longs for_ (desire), with acc.
CONJUNCTION
/an\, _or_, introducing the second half of a double question, as
_Is he a Roman or a Gaul_, /Estne Romanus an Gallus?\
_112._ A demonstrative is a word that points out an object definitely,
as _this, that, these, those_. Sometimes these words are pronouns, as,
_Do you hear these?_ and sometimes adjectives, as, _Do you hear these
men?_ In the former case they are called /demonstrative pronouns\, in
the latter /demonstrative adjectives\.
_113._ Demonstratives are similarly used in Latin both as _pronouns_ and
as _adjectives_. The one used most is
/is\, masculine; /ea\, feminine; /id\, neuter
SINGULAR: _this, that_; PLURAL: _these, those_
_114._ /Is\ is declined as follows. Compare its declension with that of
/alius\, Sec. 109.
BASE e-
SINGULAR PLURAL
MASC. FEM. NEUT. MASC. FEM. NEUT.
Nom. is ea id ei: eae ea
(_or_ ii:)
Gen. eius eius eius eo:rum ea:rum eo:rum
Dat. ei: ei: ei: ei:s ei:s ei:s
(_or_ ii:s ii:s ii:s)
Acc. eum eam id eo:s ea:s ea
Abl. eo: ea: eo: ei:s ei:s ei:s
(_or_ ii:s ii:s ii:s)
Note that the base e- changes to i- in a few cases. The genitive
singular /eius\ is pronounced _eh'yus_. In the plural the forms with two
/i\'s are preferred and the two /i\'s are pronounced as one. Hence,
pronounce /ii:\ as /i:\ and /ii:s\ as /i:s\.
_115._ Besides being used as demonstrative pronouns and adjectives the
Latin demonstratives are regularly used for the personal pronoun _he,
she, it_. As a personal pronoun, then, /is\ would have the following
meanings:
SINGULAR
Nom. is, _he_; ea, _she_; id, _it_
Gen. eius, _of him_ or _his_;
eius, _of her, her_, or _hers_;
eius, _of it_ or _its_
Dat. ei:, _to_ or _for him_;
ei:, _to_ or _for her_;
ei:, _to_ or _for it_
Acc. eum, _him_; eam, _her_; id, _it_
Abl. eo:, _with, from_, etc., _him_;
ea:, _with, from_, etc., _her_;
eo:, _with, from_, etc., _it_
PLURAL
Nom. ei: or ii:, eae, ea, _they_
Gen. eo:rum, ea:rum, eo:rum, _of them, their_
Dat. ei:s or ii:s, ei:s or ii:s, ei:s or ii:s,
_to_
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