[Sca-cooks] Lucrezia's Latin question

[Stefan li Rous]

Lucrezia asked recently about getting a Latin translation.

I forward this to Gunnora Hallakarva, sometimes known as the
Viking Answer Lady. Mistress Gunnora has also done most of the
Latin translations in my mottoes-msg files:
mottoes1-msg     (113K) 10/25/00    Latin mottoes for SCA use.
mottoes2-msg      (80K) 10/25/00    More Latin mottoes and phrases.

For those who might like to learn a bit more Latin, there is also
this article which she has written:
Latin-online-art  (15K)  6/10/99    "Learning Latin On-Line" by Gunnora
                                       Hallakarva.

So, here is her answer.

> The question from the cooks list was:
> > Could someone please tell me how to say "I cooked."
> > in Latin? Ta very muchly!
> > Lucrezia
>
> The verb is:
>
> coquo, coquere, coxi, coctum
>
> It gives us a whole host of modern words, including "cook" and "concoct".
>
> Latin offers several ways to indicate action in the past:
>
> Imperfect Tense: The imperfect tense indicates a past act in progress or a
> past situation continuing.  coquebam "I was cooking, I cooked"
>
> Perfect Tense: The perfect tense has two uses.  It may be equivalent in
> meaning to an English present perfect verb, translated with the auxiliary
> verbs "have" or "has", or it may be equivalent to the English past tense,
> referring to an indefinite past act.  coxi "I have cooked"
>
> Past Perfect Tense: The past perfect tense is used to represent an act as
> having occurred before some expressed or implied past time, the action is
> final and done.  Usually translated with the auxiliary verb "had". coxeram
> "I had cooked"
>
> ::GUNNORA::
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