1. Parsing and Translating
The Latin Codex
Parsing and Translating

2. What is Codexing?
Codexing is a method of analyzing Latin sentences. It uses the following format:
Line 1: Write out the Latin
Line 2: Write out any vocabulary you don’t know
Line 3: Parse every word (we’ll talk about this)
Line 4: Translate the sentence according to your parsing.

3. Parsing Nouns Gender – Masculine (M), Feminine (F), Neuter (N)
Number – Singular (S), Plural (pl)
Case – Nominative (Nom), Genitive (Gen), Dative (Dat), Accusative (Acc), Ablative (Abl), Vocative (Voc)
Use – See next slide.

4. Uses of Nouns
Nominative – Subject (subj), Predicate Nominative (Pred Nom)
Genitive – Possession (poss)
Dative – Indirect Object (IO)
Accusative – Direct Object (DO), Object of preposition X (obj of prep X), Place to Which
Ablative – Object of preposition X (obj of prep X), Means, Place From Which
Vocative – Direct Address

5. Adjectives Gender – Masculine, Feminine, Neuter
Case – Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Ablative
Number – Singular, Plural
Modifies…

6. Parsing Verbs Person – 1st, 2nd, 3rd
1st = I, We
2nd = You, Y’all/you all
3rd = He/She/It, They
Number – Singular (s) or Plural (pl)
Tense – Present (Pres), Future (Fut), Perfect (Perf)
Mood – Indicative (Indic), Imperative (Imper)
Voice – Active (Act)
Use – Main Verb (MV)

7. Other Parsing Prepositions: Prep w/ X Parsing conjunctions: conj
Parsing adverbs: adv
Parsing adjectives – Gender, Case, Number, Modifies
Parsing Question words: Question word