Verbs
Nouns
Miscellanea
Roman Religion
Food in Ancient Rome
100
How many conjugations are there in Latin?
4 conjugations
100
How many declensions are there in Latin?
5 declensions
100
What does it mean that Latin is a "flexible" language?
It means that endings show the syntactical function of a word in a sentence, so word order does not matter
100
What gods constitute the so-called "Capitoline Triad"?
Jupiter, Juno and Minerva
100
What is puls in ancient Roman diet?
It's porridge made with wheat, spelt, grain, or farro and water
200
What is the typical infix of the imperfect tense?
-ba-
200
What gender are most 1st declension nouns?
Feminine nouns
200
What is a "theme vowel"?
It's a vowel that connects the stem to the ending of a word
E.g. am-a-mus
200
Explain the formula do ut des, which characterizes Roman religion
I give something to the gods (sacrifice) so that they can give me some kind of benefit
200
What was the most important meal for the Romans (in Latin)?
The cena
300
What is the 3rd person singular of the present tense of currere?
Currunt
300
What is the nominative singular of vires?
Vis
300
What is an interjection?
An exclamation
300
What is the Senatus consultus de Bacchanalibus (186 BCE)?
The edict of the Roman Senate that banned the cult of Bacchus
300
What does this picture represent?
An ancient garum factory
400
What is the future, 3rd person singular of possum?
Poterit
400
The 2nd declension mostly has masculine nouns. What category of nouns are feminine in the 2nd declension?
Nouns indicating plants
400
Match the adjective pulcher, a, um to the noun nautae
Nautae pulchri
400
What is an apotheosis?
The name indicates the deification of an emperor
400
What is the difference between garum and liquamen?
Garum is made by fermenting fish entrails, while liquamen is made by fermenting whole fish (in ancient literary sources, however, the two terms sometimes overlap and eventually become interchangeable)
500
What is the present imperative, 2nd person singular of the verb perfero?
Perfer
500
What is the nominative singular of the form pulveris?
Pulvis
500
Translate: This boy gives them his books
Boy = puer; To give = dare; Book = liber
Hic puer illis eius libros dat
500
From what Roman festival does the Italian Ferragosto come from?
From the holidays in honor of Emperor Augustus in the middle of August (Feriae Augusti or Augustalia)
500
What is the Cena Trimalchionis?
It's a famous episode of the Roman novel Satyricon, which describes a lavish dinner at the house of the wealthy freedman Trimalchio