The Big Gold Book of Latin Verbs: 555 Fully Conjugated Verbs

by Gavin Betts and Daniel Franklin

One of the major difficulties facing learners of Latin is correct formation and use of verbs.The Big Gold Book of Latin Verbstakes a quantum leap forward by providing you with exactly what you need to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071417575
• ISBN13: 9780071417570
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This is an essential text for translating Latin. It has just about any verb form you can imagine and is the standard place to turn to when something just doesn't make sense. At the bottom of each page, the verb is shown in an actual Latin passage, which helps in understanding how the verb has been used. This book is cheap and very useful. There are no shortage of good reasons for any student of Latin to buy this book.

An excellent resource for any student of the Latin Language!!

This book has helped me immensely throughout my Latin carreer. Not only does it give you the verb conjugations, but they are well organized and easy to find. It also points out the 40 most common verbs in the Latin language and pays special attention to those. Not only does it show them in all conjugations (32, I think), but it also gives the user alternate uses and definitions for those "Top 40" verbs. It also has an index, and some extra grammar charts in the back, not only for conjugations of verbs, but also for help with nouns, and even some adjectives. Although it is a little cumbersome to carry around all day, it is extremely helpful with just about any Latin verb a person can think of. Overall, it is an excellent resource for any Latin student, no matter how far he/she is in his/her study, and I highly recommend it for all of those people who want to learn more about the language used in ancient times by the Romans and most major scholars and philosophers in the history of the world.

Excellent Reference

Examples from the literature for every verb. Top 40 get extensive treatment of meanings. 2500 verb index referring back to one of the 550. To this add ca 50 pages of grammer - conjugations and declensions. A wonderful resource.

Gold book gets a gold star!

Don't let the title turn you off. This is an excellent resource for those of us not yet fluent in Latin. Each of the 555 verbs has several sentences using the verb, in the original Latin (no simplification, at least with the quotes I checked), with English translations (aah!). Writers whose works are quoted include Ovid, Vergil, Lucretius, Tacitus, Livy and Cicero. It has Top 40 verbs. For each of these 40, in addition to the regular page that fully conjugates the verb, the following page has a dozen or more definitions for that one verb. For instance, there are 17 definitions for "traho/trahere." Each definition has one to three original Classical Latin sentences using the verb in that particular context. Limited to those 40 verbs, "555" is better than most dictionaries. If I had to complain (aside from the MTV lingo), the text could be a little darker, and the separation between sections within the conjugation (indicative, subjunctive, etc.) could be more distinctive. Minor stuff. Forget I said it. Macrons are included; altogether there are 3,400 Latin sentences as examples; a separate section for irregular verbs; a cross-referenced index with 2,500 verbs; and an English-to-Latin verb index. I can't praise THE BIG GOLD BOOK OF LATIN VERBS highly enough! I urge everyone studying Latin to invest in this book.