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Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition by Derek Cooper introduces students, independent learners, and homeschoolers to the basics of Latin grammar with all readings and exercises taken from texts in the Christian tradition. As part of the widely-used Zondervan Language Basics series of resources, Cooper’s Latin grammar is a student-friendly...

According to Isidore of Seville, a seventh-century Spanish bishop, there are three things associated with each letter of the alphabet: nōmen, figū́ra, and potéstās.2 Isidore explained that a letter’s nōmen, “name,” refers to how it is called; a letter’s figū́ra, “shape,” to how it is formed; and a letter’s potéstās, “meaning,” to how it is signified. Take the first letter of the Latin alphabet, for example. Its nōmen is “a,” its figū́ra is its particular shape, and its potéstās
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