Tempestas nautas e portu exire vetuit.

the sailor

Breakdown of Tempestas nautas e portu exire vetuit.

• tempestas: the storm
• exire: to go out
• portus: the harbor

Questions & Answers about Tempestas nautas e portu exire vetuit.

What is the basic grammatical structure of Tempestas nautas e portu exire vetuit?

The sentence has this structure:

• Tempestas = the subject
• nautas = the direct object
• exire = an infinitive that tells what action was prevented
• vetuit = the main verb

So the pattern is:

subject + person prevented + action prevented + verb

Latin often uses vetare + accusative + infinitive, meaning to forbid/prevent someone to do something or more natural English to prevent someone from doing something.

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Why is nautas in the accusative case?

Because nautas is the direct object of vetuit.

The verb veto, vetare, vetui, vetitum means forbid, prevent, or keep from. With this verb, the person being forbidden is put in the accusative.

So:

• nauta = sailor
• nautas = sailors (accusative plural)

In this sentence, the storm is preventing the sailors, so nautas must be accusative.

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Why is exire an infinitive?

Because after vetuit, Latin commonly uses an infinitive to express the action that was stopped or forbidden.