Latin Vocabulary
The Latin word for water
What is aqua?
The second king of Rome
Who is Numa Pompilius?
The country where Louis the Trumpeter swan is born
What is Canada?
This type of sentence ends in a exclamation point
What is exclamatory?
The term for plant life found in a particular region or time period
What is flora?
The Latin word for I work
What is laboro?
This river runs through Rome
What is the Tiber River?
The name of the camp where Louis gets his first job
What is Camp Kookooskoos?
This part of a sentence tells whom or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This massive stadium contained seats for 250,000 people and held horse and chariot races.
What is Circus Maximus?
The Latin word for I pray
What is oro?
The last man standing in the battle of Horatii and the Curatii
Who is Horatius?
Mrs. Hammerbotham teaches this grade where Louis learns how to read and write
What is first grade?
A sentence that expresses a command or request and ends with a period
What is an imperative sentence?
Bordered by Europe, Africa, and Asia, this body of water is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by a strait just 8.1 miles wide at its narrowest point
What is the Meditteranean Sea?
The Latin word for I look
What is specto?
This future consul said "Down with Tarquin the tyrant! No more kings!"
Who is Junius Brutus
The author who wrote Trumpet of the Swan.
Who is E.B. White?
Unlike a concrete noun, this type of noun names something you cannot experience with your five senses
What is an abstract noun?
Belief that things will turn out for the best
What is optimism?
The Latin word for life
What is vita?
This roman god presided over the beginning of everyundertaking. Also the god of gates and doors.
Who is Janus?
The classic serenade that Louis plays to Serena in the Philadelphia Zoo
What is "Beautiful Dreamer"?
Words that sound the same but differ in spelling and meaning
What are homophones?
A man-made structure, pipe, or channel built to carry water from a distant source to a city, town, or farming area
What is an aqueduct?