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Endings (and Middles!)
A manual to help Latin students identify the morphological possibilities of difficult words encountered in Latin texts and to construct dictionary entries of oblique forms.
Our Mission
Prēlum Press is dedicated to helping Latin students in their efforts to master the intricacies of Latin grammar.
Prēlum Press has two messages:
- Start studying Latin!
- Keep studying Latin!
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- Pronunciation
- PRAY lum The mark over the e is called a macron. The final letter, m, is nasalized. This means that as you pronounce the word, when you get to the m, you shift the airflow from your mouth to your nose. If you’ve ever studied French, you’ll recognize that this is what happens in French words that end in n (like liaison).
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- Prēlum is the Latin word for “press”. It means an oil press or a wine press, but it also means a press for making parchment sheets.
News and Announcements
Boys and Girls Club Helps Revive Latin
Radio story by Sean Powers
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Article in the Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, Urbana
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Found in translation: Teacher taking Latin to town News-Gazette article about the Latin pilot project at Don Moyers Boys and Girls club in Champaign, Illinois.
Interview with Kay Neal on WILL-AM in Urbana, Illinois; a number of listeners help her expose some commonly held misconceptions about Latin.
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