<P> Over the ages, Latin - speaking populations produced new adjectives, nouns, and verbs by affixing or compounding meaningful segments . For example, the compound adjective, omnipotens, "all - powerful," was produced from the adjectives omnis, "all", and potens, "powerful", by dropping the final s of omnis and concatenating . Often, the concatenation changed the part of speech, and nouns were produced from verb segments or verbs from nouns and adjectives . </P> <P> The phrases are mentioned with accents to show where stress is placed . In Latin, most words are stressed at the second - last (penultimate) syllable, called in Latin paenultima or syllaba paenultima . A few words are stressed at the third - last syllable, called in Latin antepaenultima or syllaba antepaenultima . </P> <P> sálve to one person / salvéte to more than one person - hello </P> <P> áve to one person / avéte to more than one person - greetings </P>

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