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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 15, 2017

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June 15, 2017

Here's a literal translation of the Latin: The existence of each and every one of us is joined with (that) of others. Life is not the passage of time, but a time of meeting (others).

And here's how the grammar of this Latin tweet works:

Latin	English	Parsing	Grammar Points
Uniuscuiusque	of each and every one	gen. sing. adj.	unusquisque
nostrum	of us	gen. pl. pronoun	nos, nostri
exsistentia	the existence	nom. sing. fem. noun	exsistentia, exsistentiae
cum	with (that of)		Prep.+Abl.
aliorum	of others	gen. pl. masc. adj.	alius, alia, aliud
nectitur	is joined	3^rd pers. sing. pres. pass. ind. verb	nectō, nectere, nēxuī, nexus
vita	life	nom. sing. fem. noun	vita, vitae
non	not		adv.
est	is	3^rd pers. sing. pres. ind. verb	sum, esse, fui
temporis	of time	gen. sing. neut. noun	tempus, temporis
traductio	the passage	nom. sing. fem. noun	traductio, traductionis
sed	but		conj.
tempus	a time	nom. sing. neut. noun	tempus, temporis
occursus	of meeting	gen. sing. masc. noun	occursus, occursūs

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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 15, 2017

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