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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorrATwillamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton
Office Hours: W 11:30-12:30 pm
and by appointment, 306 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercise GVE p. 147

Exercise

Add the appropriate forms of both comparative and superlative degrees of the given adjective to the nouns:
longus: longiôrem / longissimum diem;
            longiôre / longissimâ nocte
celer: celeriôrês / celerrimî (or –ôs, if acc. pl.) mîlitês,
          celeriôrî or celeriôre / celerrimo oculo
ingens: ingêntiôrês / ingêntissimae (or –as, if acc. pl.) aedês;
            ingêntiôrem / ingêntissimam familiam
pulcher: pulchriôrês [nom./acc. pl.] or pulcheriôris [gen. s.]/
              pulcherrimae [nom. pl. or gen s.] or pulcherrimâs (acc. pl.])manûs;
              pulcheriôrum / pulcherrimârum mulierum
stultus: stultiôra / stultissima cônsilia;
             stultiôrî / stultissimô hominî;
             stultiôrum / stultissimôrum operum