Architectus cum curatore venit.

with

Breakdown of Architectus cum curatore venit.

• venire: to come
• curator: the overseer; superintendent
• architectus: the architect

Questions & Answers about Architectus cum curatore venit.

Why does architectus end in -us?

Because architectus is the subject of the sentence and is in the nominative singular.

For a regular second-declension masculine noun, the nominative singular often ends in -us. So here architectus means the architect as the person doing the action.

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Why does curatore end in -e instead of looking like curator?

Because cum takes the ablative case, and the ablative singular of curator is curatore.

So:

• dictionary form: curator
• ablative singular: curatore

That is why Latin says cum curatore, not cum curator.

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What exactly is cum doing here?

Here cum is a preposition meaning with.

When cum is used as a preposition, it normally takes the ablative. That is why the next word is curatore.

So the structure is:

• cum = with
• curatore = ablative singular after cum

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