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Among those I would group almost all of the words on -ius, and minus. Many of the words in your list are accusative neuter forms of comparatives, with the ordinary neuter comparative suffix -(i)us, genitive -(i)oris. Neither L&S nor De Vaan explain the ending of adverbial secus, except in so far that it was originally an adjective or participle probably derived from the same root as sequor. Only with a prefixed ablative does it become an adverb ( hac tenus). Also includes a fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Shows the main Latin verb conjugations with endings color-coded for easy memorization. It makes sense that it should be different, since it functions as a postposition in classical Latin, not an adverb. 4th Conjugation Chart (PDF) Fill-in-the-Blank Conjugation Worksheet (PDF) About the chart. L&S say tenus is different, perhaps being originally an accusative of direction. Many of the words are derived from versus/vorsus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, deorsus, introsus, seorsus. So the ablative suffix -tus in intus need not be derived from the supine stem on -tu-, since superlatives are standard consonantal stems without a u in the stem-unless superlatives could also have -u- in archaic/proto-Latin.

So it seems likely that both demus and demum are superlative forms ('sup.' stands for superlative here, not supine).ДЄpparently, both an -us form and an -um form of a superlative could be used to express something adverbial. The entry for demus in L&S says simply 'see demum'. I wonder whether this ablative could be related to the ablative plural ending -bus.ДД“mum (also demus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, deorsus.), adv. This may explain many of the adverbs in -sus. Most of the words on -tus in your list seem to contain the same suffix.ДЄ suffix -tus often turns into -sus, as in ordinary past participles like passus, versus, missus, mansus, caesus. Lewis & Short say -tus in intus is an old ablative ending or suffix, related to the Greek adverbial ending -П„бЅ№П‚ as in бјђОЅП„бЅ№П‚: I also appended a list of such adverbs at the bottom of this question, though some (like adversus) are simply taken from the corresponding adjective.Д¬an anyone elucidate why these adverbs formed in this way? Some examples that come immediately to mind are penitus, protinus, caelitus, divinitus, and (my favorite) medullitus. (By 'positive,' I am excluding the standard comparative adverb form of -ius, e.g.

It will take time and practice, but it will come.There is a small but noticeable subset of Latin positive adverbs that end in -us. Find the ending you need and compare it to what you are reading. When you get stuck, simply refer to the charts. Print it out and keep it nearby as you work. Since it was going to be a folder, I condensed all of the endings into four pages. Originally, this was going to be a Folder for my students, but, it never made it. I have compiled all the Latin endings in one location.

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If you do decide to memorize the endings (and it does not hurt to do so), I have a series on YouTube that may help: ДЄnd finally, I think the easiest thing you can do is simply keep the endings nearby as you read. There you will find more Latin than you will ever readвЂ¦ and itвЂ™s all free. When you have finished this list, visit the Latin. Here is a reading list from my book, Via: Instead of memorizing the endings, I would recommend more reading. As we read, they all end up learning the endings in the end. Some students memorize the endings, some donвЂ™t.

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But, it would be strange if you had memorized the manual, and could rattle off the names of every gadget under the hood, but still did not know how to drive.

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If you memorized the technical manual to your car, it would be impressive. However, it is a bit strange to meet students with all of the Latin endings memorized who cannot read in Latin. They have most of the Latin endings memorized. Some of my best students are from the Classical Conversation world. There is nothing at all wrong with memorizing all of the Latin endings.