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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 17, 2014

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June 17, 2014

Literal translation of the Latin: Seeing as we have the elderly in the number of the most precious, may we never ever neglect them, male and female, because that would be hurtful and a detriment to be deplored.

Here's how the Latin works.

Latin	English	Parsing	Grammar Points
Quoniam	Seeing that
senes	old people	acc. pl. masc. noun	senex, senis; obj. of habemus
in	in	Prep. + abl.	governs numero
pretiosissimorum	of the most precious	gen. pl. masc. adj.	pretiosus, pretiosa, pretiosum; used as substantive
numero	number	abl. sing. masc. noun	numerus, numeri
habemus	we have	1st pers. pl. pres. act. ind.	habeo, habere, habui, habitum
numquam	never
profecto	truly	adv.
eos	them	acc. pl. masc. pronoun	is, ea, id; obj. of neglegamus
neque	nor
eas	them	acc. pl. fem. pronoun	is, ea, id; obj. of neglegamus
neglegamus	let us neglect	1st pers. pl. pres. act. subj.	neglego, neglegere, neglexi, neglectum
quod	because
iniquum	hurtful	nom. sing. neut. adj.	used as substantive
est	(it) is
atque	and
detrimentum	a detriment	nom. sing. neut. noun	detrimentum, detrimenti
deplorandum	to be deplored	nom. sing. neut. gerundive	deploro, deplorare, deploravi, deoploratum

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 17, 2014

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