Latin Prepositions and Case Translations
Complements
Cum + Ablative
Translates to:
- Addition of something
- Increase in company
- Increase in union
In + Ablative
Translates to:
- The increase was in place
De + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in movement from place
- Increase in field
- Additional argument
- Complement of source (originally shown as a pronoun or common name)
- Increase in guilt (with typical expressions of the law)
- Additional removal or separation
E/Ex + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in movement from place
- Increase in field
- Additional removal or separation
- Partitive complement
- Complement of source (originally shown as a pronoun or common name)
A/Ab + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in movement from place
- Additional agent
- Increase in distance (if not indicating the location from which the distance is calculated)
- Additional removal or separation (with things and personal names)
- Complement of source (originally shown as a pronoun or common name)
Simple Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in means
- The increase was in place (city or small island, 1st and 2nd declension plural)
- Increase in movement from place (city or small island)
- Addition of motion to place (transition to)
- Complement of manner (noun + adjective)
- Increase in cause (internal)
- Addition of time
- Addition of efficient cause
- Increase in quality (natural quality or transitional state of mind)
- Additional restriction
- Increase in abundance
- Addition of deprivation
- Increase in price (price or estimate, determined or quantified)
- Increase in penalty (penalty specifically indicated)
- Complement of source (included in the family, social status, or names of their parents)
- Increase in distance (indicating the measure of distance)
Pro + Ablative
Translates to:
- Increase in substitution or exchange
- Additional advantage and disadvantage
Prae + Ablative
Translates to:
- Additional cause (impeding)
Ad + Accusative
Translates to:
- Addition of motion to place
- Increase in end
Per + Accusative
Translates to:
- Increase in means (with people)
- Addition of motion through a location (city or small island)
- Addition of continuous time
In + Accusative
Translates to:
- Addition of motion to place
- Additional advantage and disadvantage
Ob/Propter + Accusative
Translates to:
- Increase in cause (external)
Simple Accusative
Translates to:
- Addition of motion to place
- Addition of continuous time
- Increase in distance (indicating the measure of distance)
Praeter/Extra + Accusative
Translates to:
- Addition of exclusion
Inter + Accusative
Translates to:
- Partitive complement
Contra + Accusative
Translates to:
- Additional advantage and disadvantage
Locative Genitive
Translates to:
- The increase was in place (city or small island, 1st and 2nd declension singular)
Simple Genitive
Translates to:
- Increase in quality (moral quality)
- Partitive complement
- Increase in price (commercial estimate)
- Increase in bulk
- Increase in penalty (indefinite penalty)
- Increase in quantity (depending on a neutral pronoun or noun, or adverb of quantity)
Causa/Gratia + Genitive
Translates to:
- Increase in end
Spatio + Genitive
Translates to:
- Increase in distance
Instar + Genitive
Translates to:
- Increase in substitution or exchange
Simple Noun
Translates to:
- Additional argument (or versions of titles of books)
Simple Dative
Translates to:
- Additional advantage and disadvantage
- Increase in end