A TENSE situation
This past tense (one of three kinds of past tense) indicates an action NOT specifically completed in the past.
What is Imperfect?
These two cases are the Principal Parts of nouns, meaning they will be listed together in the dictionary.
What are nominative (singular) and genitive (singular)?
Quam pulchra, quam pretiōsa est haec fībula, mea Vilbia!
How pretty, how precious/costly is this brooch, my Vilbia!
This was Quintus's cousin, who was married to Salvius.
Who was Rufilla?
This word means a curse tablet.
What is a dēfīxiō?
This past tense (one of three kinds of past tense) indicates an action that occurred BEFORE a past event, making it the past OF the past.
What is Pluperfect?
To know the DECLENSION of a noun, you must look at the ending of this case and number.
What is Genitive Singular?
Labōrāte! Nōlīte garrīre! Loquāciōr estis quam psittacī.
Work! Do not gossip/chatter! Y'all are more talkative than parrots.
This was Salvius's occupation.
What is Roman Senator?
This is the plural word meaning (more than one) curse tablet.
What are dēfīxiōnēs?
Verbs have this many principal parts.
What is four?
You can identify the GENDER of a noun by seeing if the plural of this case ends with -a. (If it does, it's neuter.)
What is Nominative?
Ōlim tria mīlia hostium occīdit.
Once he killed three thousand of (his/the) enemies.
This was Memor's occupation.
What is haruspex/diviner?
Pipes in the Roman baths were made of this metal.
What is lead?
These are the two kinds of third conjugation, and their model verbs are trahere (to drag) and capere (to take).
What are "Classic" III and III "-io"?
Once the declension has been identified using the endings (-ae, -ī and -is), the rest of the Genitive Singular word becomes the _____ for the rest of the noun chart. For example, rēg- in rēgis.
What is stem?
Ego autem tālēs fābulās saepe ex aliīs mīlitibus audīvī.
I however have often heard such stories from other soldiers.
This was Cephalus's status.
What is freedman (of Memor)?
This is the meaning of Aquae Sulis.
What is "the Waters of Sul(is)?"
In the Present Tense, although III Conjugation "borrows" its vowel from the neighboring IV Conjugation, III does not imitate IV's use of this marking, which (unlike all other conjugations) III simply does not have in the first place, even in its infinitive form.
What is a macron?
Latrōnis is the _______ form of Latrō.
What is Genitive Singular?
Tibi perīculōsum est Bulbum contemnere, quod rēs magicās intellegit.
It is dangerous for you to reject Bublus, because he understands magical things.
This daughter of Latro was pretty and obstinate and given a brooch by a Roman soldier.
Who was Vilbia?
The Romans identified the Celtic goddess Sul(is) with this Roman goddess.
Who is Minerva?