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Is there any difference between "Corinna femina est" and "Corinna est femina"?
J.C.M.H.
681
No; word order in Latin is rather free; only the sintax Corinna femina est would have been more common in Classic Latin. For instance, the famous phrase Alea iacta est "The die ist cast".
JMSHG
206
In the latin books we studied, there was mostly this position. S. O. V. That's why I prefer to write like Caesar or Ciceron !
J.C.M.H.
681
Because sum is the first person singular; here we need the third person singular, est, because of Corinna.