Questions & Answers about Caper in agro stat.
What part of speech is caper, and what case is it in?
Caper is a noun, and here it is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the sentence.
So in Caper in agro stat, caper is the one doing the action of stat.
Does caper mean just goat, or something more specific?
Caper usually means a male goat or he-goat. It is more specific than a general English goat.
A learner may also meet capra, which means a female goat or she-goat.
Why is it in agro and not in ager?
Because the preposition in here means in/on in the sense of location, and with that meaning it takes the ablative case.
The noun is ager = field, but its ablative singular form is agro.
So:
- ager = nominative singular
- agro = ablative singular
That is why Latin says in agro.
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