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- "Maritus cotidie sacrificat."
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Does the Latin word refer to actual animal sacrifices, or is it more general, as in someone who gives things up for a larger good?
Sacrifices were offered to the gods at temples and household shrines and elsewhere, and could be very simple things like oil or foods or items one valued as precious. They were not always blood sacrifices. However, perhaps less valuable things should better be referred to as offerings.... But the whole idea was to give to the gods or local spirits so that they would do you favours or protect you. "Do ut des".
The husband sacrifices daily. OR The husband daily sacrifices. Makes no difference.
"The husband daily sacrifices" says the same thing and should be accepted. I reported it.
That doesn't seem like correct English sentence order to me. I think 'daily' as an adverb should always be at the end.
Daily is an adverb of frequency:
Adverbs of this type can be placed:
Either, at the beginning:
Daily, the husband sacrifices.
(Here an emphasis on the "daily" as a remarkable fact)
Or, at the end:
The husband sacrifices daily.
This is the most common, and more natural ways to order then.
https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adverb/adverbs-frequency/
Agree that those are the restrictions on "daily".
However, the page you reference puts various adverbs of frequency in other positions, as in examples 3 and 4:
I usually shop for groceries on Saturday mornings.
He is often late for work.
This comes down to the difference between adverbs of definite frequency (such as "daily") and adverbs of indefinite frequency (such as "usually" and "often").
I prefer the discussion found on
"To make sacrifice" should be accepted for sacrificare as "to sacrifice" without an object sounds clunky in English.
No, it's fine, because "sacrifice" is also an intransitive verb.
Used transitively and intransitively, this verb doesn't have the same meaning.
I am puzzled, I have never come across "cotidie", rather "quotidie" although it was obvious from the options given.
Thank you. Now I think of it I really do not know which I knew when doing Latin at school aeons ago but now very familiar with the q version from "Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie"
Curiously, Quintilian (Īnstitūtiō Ōrātōria I.VII.VI) would have called us both pedantic (frigidī) for writing quotidie with a "q", although he admits it is the older practise.
At any rate, it should be accepted on Duolingo as it we are not trying to hit exactly Silver Age Latin.
Curiously, I think this is the one exercise where quotide cannot be substituted for cotidie.
