Vocab/Derivatives
We get the word “pedestrian” in English from this Latin word
PES, PEDIS (m) = foot
What noun case is the indirect object?
DATIVE
Where did the gladiator fights take place?
In an amphitheater.
What is a strigil?
A scraper.
Translate “fortissimus”
Very brave or the bravest
We get the word “hospital” in English from this Latin word
HOSPES, HOSPITIS (m) = guest
What is the highest degree of an adjective called?
SUPERLATIVE
What is a venatio?
The part of the show when beast-fighters fought animals.
Which room is the palaestra?
The exercise room
What is the apodyterium?
The changing room at the baths.
What Latin vocab word do we get the English derivative “reiterate” from?
ITERUM = again
Give the Latin pronoun that means “to/for me.”
MIHI
What types of people trained to be gladiators?
Slaves, POWs, criminals, and volunteers
What happened in the tepidarium?
People sat on benches in a warm room (it was like a like a sauna)
Who are the retiarii?
The net-fighters.
This Latin vocab word means “blood”
SANGUIS, SANGUINIS (m) = blood
Put cervus, -i (m) = deer into the accusative plural.
CERVOS
What did a thumbs-up mean at the end of a fight?
To kill the gladiator.
What is the name of the the hottest room, where people were cleaned with oil and bathed in hot water?
The caldarium
Give the Latin for the phrase “as quickly as possible.”
QUAM CELERRIME
Give the Latin adverb that means “for a little time.”
PAULISPER
Put pater, patris (m) = father into the dative plural.
PATRIBUS
What did the wooden sword symbolize?
That a gladiator could retire (i.e. he would never have to fight again) because he had showed enough skill and courage throughout his fighting days.
What is the name of the heating system used at the baths?
A hypocaust
After the incident between the Pompeians and the Nucerians, the senate forbade the Pompeains to hold shows for how many years?
Ten.