WHAT DOES TUNE MEAN IN THIS SENTENCE
perfide, tune paras tacitus discedere a mea terra?
get out
do you ?
I curse you
sing
2007-12-02 13:04:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
As has been correctly said, it is an enclitic, a word that never stands alone, but is stuck onto another word.
When this happens in Latin, the accent moves to the preceding syllable. If you are unfamiliar with how questions work in Latin, there is an excellent exposition in Adler's textbook on Google books. You can find a link to Adler's textbook here:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
The podcast itself is a rich source of examples of questions and answers, particularly those lessons from Adler's textbook, which is composed as a sequence of questions and answers.
2007-12-04 04:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a word plus an enclitic - a tack-on. The 'tu' part is the pronoun for you, singular. The '-ne' is 'tacked on' to the 'tu'. It's not a word that can be translated in itself - it serves as a marker that the sentence is a question.
2007-12-03 07:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://books.google.com/books?id=k5oXGuCKqc0C&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=perfide+tune+paras+tacitus+discedere+a+mea+terra&source=web&ots=-GP7nUUKc8&sig=T105WPT4MPWrC7V47ue-RbzDDT0#PPA74,M1
2007-12-02 21:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by Junior V 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it means " you dont"
2007-12-02 21:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋