Latin is a language of the Italic branch of the Indo-European lan-guage family. The texts of Old and Classical Latin span from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. Morphologically, Latin is a synthetic language. The words include an objective semantic element and markers specifying the grammatical use of the word.

Latin distinguishes primary (totus, etc.) and derived adjectives (de-nominative frūmentārĭus or deverbative capax). Adjectives declina-tion conforms to the first three declinations (i.e. I. (for feminine, ending in -a) and II. (for masculine and neuter, ending in -us, -um) nuceus, -a, -um “of a nut-tree” or caecus, -a, -um “blind”; III. acer, acris “short”). They inflect for number (singular and plural), gender (masculine, feminine and neuter) and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and vocative).

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