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Matter Of Gram Matical: In Spanish, on the other hand, they became escudo, cspada, and in Italian, scudo, spada. French and Provencal, however, showed themselves more conservative than the other western Romance tongues in the matter of gram matical of grammatical forms. Both languages retained some semblance of the Latin case system for masculine nouns and adjectives. A double case, with the nominative opposed to a general oblique form, appears in the languages of France from their inception to the 14th century. By contrast, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian displayed a single case form from their earliest appearance.
The most enduring Roman work in grammar was by Aelius Donatus, writing about 350 A. D., and Priscian, writing about 500 A. D. The Ars minor (Small Grammar) of Donatus runs to about 10 pages and presents the essentials of Latin grammar in the form of a catechism. It became the basic schoolbook of the European Middle Ages. Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae (Grammatical Instructions), more than 10 times as long, is the definitive product of Roman grammatical study.
SRAM, a unit of mass or weight in the metric ystem. A gram mass is defined as 1/1000 of he International Prototype Kilogram, a cylinder f iridium-platinum alloy kept at the International tureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, Vance. The gram weight is defined as the /eight of a gram mass under standard gravity, 'he gram equals about 1/28.35 avoirdupois unce. A U. S. silver dime weighs about 2 grams. In the original metric system the gram was efined as the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of 'ater at its maximum density. Its name was erived from the Latin word gramma meaning little weight." |
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