Sunday, November 30, 2008

Adjectives

Adjectives should be fairly easy to form, using rules very similar to the way we derive nouns. Irregular adjectives that have genitives ending with -ius will have forms based on their ablative cases. Since we have two genders in Vulgare, adjectives that were originally of the Latin first or second declension will have two forms. Adjectives of the Latin third declension should be invariable. The rules for deriving Greek-based adjectives will be similar. Plurals will be formed by adding an -s. Here are some examples:

Latin gendered adjectives:
alia/o - another; altera/o - the other; bona/o - good; neutra/o - neither; nulla/o - none; sacra/o - sacred; sola/o - alone; tenera/o - tender; tota/o - whole; ulla/o - any; una/o - one; utra/o - which of two?;

Latin non-gendered adjectives:
alacre - lively; audace (audax) - bold; forte - brave; fortiore - braver; meliore - better; pejore - worse; potente (potens) - powerful; vetere (vetus) - old;

Greek gendered adjectives:
adica/o - unjust; agatha/o - good; aloga/o - irrational; caca/o - bad; cala/o - beautiful; chrysa/o - golden; episema/o - remarkable; euxena/o - hospitable; hilea/o - gracious; megala/o (mega) - great; micra/o - little; oliga/o - few; philia/o - friendly; polla/o (poly) - much, many; rhaedia/o - easy; sopha/o - wise;

Greek non-gendered adjectives:
alethe - true; chariente - graceful; euphrone - kindly; hede - sweet; meizone - greater, bigger; pante (pas) - all, every; talane - unhappy;

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