What is the Latin word for of?

Answer 1

1. For possession use the genitive case.
2. For from (out of) use e or ex.
3. In medieval Latin de is sometimes used.

also exit is a latin word
In most cases "of" would not be translated by an independent word in Latin, but rather by the use of the genitive case. For example, "a girl" is puella, "of a girl" is puellae; "the Romans" Romani, "of the Romans" Romanorum. The correct genitive form for a given noun varies according to the noun's declension and number (singular or plural).

There are cases where "of" is translated differently, for example when "of" specifies a source or material (ex + ablative case in non sum ex argento factus, "I'm not made of money").

Noun Endings for 1st and 2nd Declension Nouns

Most 1st declension nouns are feminine, and second declension are masculine or neuter. As in all languages, there are (many) exceptions. The tables below show the primary case endings (sans vocative & locative) for 1st (feminine) and 2nd (masculine & neuter) declension endings, singular and plural.

Nominative: -a, -ae
Genitive: -ae, -arum
Dative: -ae, -is
Accusative: -am, -as
Ablative: -a, -is

Nominative: -us, -i
Genitive: -i, -orum
Dative: -o, -is
Accusative: -um, -OS
Ablative: -o, -is

Nominative: -um, -a
Genitive: -i, -orum
Dative: -o, -is
Accusative: -um, -a
Ablative: -o, -is

So, for possessive nouns that in English you would say, "of...", you would use the endings, -ae, -arum and -i, -orum. (the plural -arum and -orum endings are most distinctive and easy to pick out)

It helps to talk about a word with it's singular nominative and genitive endings, by which you can usually get the root, and from that create the other words with appropriate endings. (again, there are exceptions)

When the resulting word is the same, for example, puellae as either genitive singular, dative singular, or nominative plural, you have to learn to see how the word is being used in the context of the sentence, which is one of the difficult aspects of learning Latin.

And you have to learn what each of the cases are used for. Roughly, with exceptions: nominative is the subject, genitive for possessive, dative for indirect objects, accusative for the direct object, and the ablative case has at least fifteen documented 'other' uses, sometimes, but not always, with other qualifying words like ex, ab, in, and others.

Examples:

(note -- sometimes the words are shown with the nominative version and the genetive ending, such as: puella, -ae ; dominus, -i ; bellum, -i --- which would normally be fully pronounced as below -- if anything, for good practice)

puella, puellae (girl -- root 'puell')

puella, puellae
puellae, puellarum
puellae, puellis
puellam, puellas
puella, puellis

dominus, domini (master -- root 'domin')

dominus, domini
domini , dominorum
domino , dominis
dominum , dominos
domino , dominis

bellum, belli (war -- root 'bell')

bellum , Bella
belli , bellorum
bello , bellis
bellum , Bella
bello , bellis

There are also third, fourth, and fifth declension nouns, but they tend to be more difficult to understand and use because of the exceptions and peculiarities. So Latin students usually start with 1st declension nouns and then work their way up to 5th declension.

And then you have pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs, and verbs, and a host of other things of which languages are made. See the related link below for more information.