Questions & Answers about Unde odor panis venit?
What does unde mean here?
Unde means from where? or from what source? It asks about origin.
That is slightly different from ubi, which means where? and asks about location. So this sentence is asking where the smell is coming from, not where it is.
What is the subject of the sentence?
The subject is odor.
It is nominative singular and means smell or scent. Since venit is singular, it matches odor: the smell comes.
Why is panis translated as of bread?
Here panis is genitive singular, so it means of bread.
Latin often uses a noun in the genitive after another noun to show a relationship like the smell of bread, the sound of the sea, the voice of the girl, and so on.
So:
- odor = smell
- panis = of bread
Together, odor panis = the smell of bread.
But isn't panis also the dictionary form meaning bread?