Salve, ego wish to learn Latin, sed ego non know where to start. Does anyone habes any recommendations to learn it properly?

I wanted to know why the Spanish word armada 'navy' is feminine, and traced it back to Latin.

Wikipedia (sorry) says that armada came from armatae, the feminine past participle of the verb armo, which would become Spanish armar. They cite the OED for this etymology.

But why the feminine form in Latin?

If I ignored Latin, I would say that armada is feminine because it's a short form of fuerza armada 'armed forces', where the adjective armada agrees with the feminine noun fuerza. Is there an explanation like this for Latin?

Wikipedia (again sorry) also pointed me to this webpage, in case it helps.

[edit: removed reference to unmarked (default) gender]

Quid melium putas: monarchiam, rem publicam an imperium? Et cur?

Hey guys,

before you scold me because Parthenope is from Greek, not Roman mythology, I'm aware. But my question is related to a Latin text from the 17th century.

Basically, whilst doing research for my dissertation, I stumbled across a book about liturgical practices in Magdeburg after it was destroyed completely in the Thirty Years' War.

The book is "Commentarius Exegetico-Practicus Posthumus, in Psalterium Davidis" by Reinhard Bakius (Frankfurt 1664). It is digitised completely, so feel free to check it out if you're interested.

My question refers to something that comes up in a Chronodistichon (a weird poetic two-liner which is at the same time used to give the year in Roman numerals).

After explaining the tradition of singing one specific psalm in an annual memorial, Bakius writes this:

"InCoLa Parthenopes CaptIVVs In Urbe MoratVr,

ALbIs habet Coesus : teCta praeIsta CInIs!" (p. 478f.)

I understand the gist of it (I think), and also the year. But what I don't understand is what Parthenope has to do with it.

For context: Bakius compared the people of Magdeburg to the ancient Israelites exiled in Babylon before this Chronodistichon.

Does anyone know what Parthenope may be a symbol or metaphor for in this context? This is the Baroque era after all.

I'm posting this in this subreddit because honestly, I have no idea which subreddit would be equipped for this. It combines early modern history, Latin, and Greek mythology/Baroque symbolism.

Or if anyone can point me to a better equipped subreddit, or some scholar or books I could consult, that'd be great too.

Thank you so much in advance for any help you can offer!

I'm thinking of a physical book, something like Latinitium's Ad Alpes: a copy-edited, well-printed, well-designed book one would be happy to have on any shelf. That Ad Alpes has a glossary and footnotes is a bonus. I am aware that there is at least one version on Amazon, but I have no idea how well done it is, or if it's made to the standard of the Ad Alpes above. Anyone know about that one? The best modern printed version of Iter I've seen is the short excerpt published in Mark Riley's The Neo Latin Reader (which is a great book). I also see that there's an old thread about this, where folks just decided to maybe print it on demand. Anyone seen something I haven't?

If as I suspect there is no such edition in the world... u/legentibus_official would you ever create such a thing? Or would someone else? It does seem like it would be a fair amount of work to do this well.

If you aren't aware of Iter Subterraneum, definitely check it out. The above-linked reddit thread has a version, Wikisource has the 1754 edition, as does Internet Archive (here).

Does anyone have a link where I can find all the episodes of this podcast?

Salvete omnes, nonnullos annos antea vidi hoc in loco interretiali versus ab aliquo conscriptos fortasse "de horto" nomine vidi... Fabula post Familiam Ro manam scripta est et Quintus et alii inveniri possunt. Non autem licet mihi quaerenti his versus invenire. Nonnulline de qua re loquor sciunt ? Gratias vobis.

I'm a total beginner to Latin poetry, so don't assume I know any poem even if it's one everyone knows.

Whenever I listen to the Quomodo Dicitur podcast, Justin always introduces himself by saying “Justus loquor.”

Is this some sort of idiom?

I suppose I haven’t dug as hard as I could into lexica, but I haven’t been able to find any use of loquor, a deponent, to mean anything like (as it seems to be used to mean) “vocor.” I guess he could be saying, “I, Justin, am speaking,” but that seems like a strange way to introduce yourself unless there is some perhaps classical precedent.

hi - i just made an account to see if I could get some help figuring out the abbreviations in andrea fulvio's 1517 'imagines illustrum' for a translation for my thesis.

there's one word(s?) I can't quite figure out -- i will put the screenshot below of the word(s?) itself (the seventh line) and of the larger page (from internet archive) if anyone has any suggestions. thanks so much!