Appositions and adjective nouns

[john abshire]

The man, a farmer, is walking to the small town.
He needs to buy a tool, a hammer, in town.

Vir, agricola, ad oppidum parvum ambulat.
ferramentum malleum in parvo mercori requirit.
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And, is there a grammatical term for an “adjective noun” such as “parvo” in sentence two?

 

[AoM]

Ah, so mercori should be mercari. Also, how common is it for requiro to take an infinitive?

As for in parvo, seems like you would use hic or ibi instead (or connect the two sentences with a quod clause).

 

[john abshire]

Ah, so mercori should be mercari. Also, how common is it for requiro to take an infinitive?

As for in parvo, seems like you would use hic or ibi instead (or connect the two sentences with a quod clause). I

I don’t know how common it is for requiro to take an infinitive, but I guess you mean it isn’t, for whatever reason.
The idea of using in parvo is that parvo is being used as a pronoun in place of oppidum (and is that correct).

 

[AoM]

I don’t know how common it is for requiro to take an infinitive, but I guess you mean it isn’t, for whatever reason.

Yeah, it’ll usually be mentioned in the L&S entry.

Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, rĕ-quīro

Just construing it with the accusative should work.

The idea of using in parvo is that parvo is being used as a pronoun in place of oppidum (and is that correct).

Like I mentioned, you would probably just use hic or ibi instead. But if you wanted a prepositional phrase, you would use in oppido, not in parvo.

 

[Pacifica]

not in parvo.

Not out of the blue like that, at any rate.

Now, you could imagine something like this:

Duo oppida in regione sunt: magnum et parvum. Agricola in parvo malleum mercatur.
"There are two towns in the area: a big one and a small one. The farmer is buying a hammer in the small one."

In that case, magnum, parvum and parvo would be called substantivized adjectives.

 

[Pacifica]

As for the "he needs to buy..." part, it would be much more common to express that with a gerundive construction, for example.