Latin Grammar nōnne īdem, eadem, idem nēmo (Grammar 3C, pp )

nōnne

 Languages typically have ways to indicate that a yes or a no answer is expected when a question is asked.  These questions in English expect a yes answer: Don’t you like pizza? You like pizza, don’t you? tag question

nōnne  In Latin, nōnne is put at the beginning of a sentence that expects a yes answer nōnne mē amās? Don’t you love me? Surely you love me? You love me, don’t you?

tag questions…  Yes—No—Yes You love me, don’t you? Yes, I do. Yes No Yes

tag questions…  Yes—No—Yes You will come, won’t you? Yes, I will. Yes No Yes

nōnne nōnne Bacchidem uīdistī? You saw Bacchis, didn’t you? (Yes, I did) Yes No

īdem, eadem, idem

īdem, eādem, idem  The latin word for the same is īdem, eadem, idem.  In English, we think of the word same as an adjective.  In Latin, it is treated as a demonstrative, and is a fifth Latin demonstrative. 1. hic, haec, hoc 2. iste, ista, istud 3. ille, illa, illud 4. is, ea, id 5. īdem, eadem, idem

īdem, eadem, idem  It’s easy to form.  Unfortunately, the nominative singular just has to be memorized: īdem, eadem, idem  The remaining forms are just the forms of is, ea, id, with the suffix –dem added.  There’s just one problem…

īdem, eadem, idem  Romans didn’t like the combination –md-  So, wherever you would wind up with –md- from adding -dem to is, ea, id, the –md- changes to –nd-. eum + dem = eundem eam + dem = eandem eōrum + dem = eōrundem eārum + dem = eārundem

īdem, eadem, idem singularplural īdemeademidemeīdemeaedemeadem eundemeandemidemeōsdem eadem eiusdem eōrundemeārundemeōrundem eīdem eīsdem eōdemeādemeōdemeīsdem

nēmo

nēmo = no one, nobody  How do you say no one in Latin?  The easiest thing to do is to use nūllus, -a, -um nullus = no one

nēmo  But the Romans actually preferred to use the word nēmo. nē + homo = nēmo

nēmo  nēmō exists only in the singular, but it declines just like the regular third-declension consonant-stem homo, hominis, m. & f. homonēmo hominemnēminem hominisnēminis hominīnēminī hominenēmine

nēmo  In the genitive and ablative, Latin tends to use forms of nūllus, -a, -um instead of nēmo. nēmo nēminem nullīus (nēminis) nēminī nūllō (nēmine)