Goat Island

This is an abridgement of an Elementary Latin Dictionary for Schools.

On the other hand, space has been saved by the omission of all detailed references to books and passages. And by limiting the illustrative citations, to those which are typical, or peculiarly instructive. Proper names, too, have been excluded, except those which, because of peculiarities of form, or of their derivations, require a special explanation.

An asterisk before a word means that it is not found in use, but is assumed to account for some derived form. Remarks in square brackets relate to etymology.

The sign of equality before a Greek word means that the preceding Latin word is borrowed from the form of the former.

The material aims for a thorough mastery of the basic structures of the Human language, and for the development of the four basic language skills: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Modifications of the text, are made chiefly to reflect recent changes, and to emphasize the aural-oral aspects of the language.

Forms of incorrect orthography, found in some school-books, are enclosed in parenthesis, with reference to the correct form. A dash - in place of the genitive, of a substantive, or of one of the principal parts of a verb, indicates that this tomb, or pyramid, is not in classical use.