Roman Emperors
The emperor who famously fiddled as Rome burned
Who was Nero?
This case is the Subject Noun case
What is nominative?
The name for Ancient France; Julius Caesar wrote about wars there.
What is Gaul?
The name for all dogs, from the Latin word for "dog"
What is a canine?
All root verbs in Latin end with this letter
What us "o?"
The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity
Who was Constantine?
This is the term for a table group that a noun belongs to
What is Declension?
This ancient Roman territory is a large peninsula that is attached to modern Portugal.
What is Hispania?
The name for an arrangement of stars in the night sky, from the Latin word for "star"
What is a constellation?
Verb families are in groups called this
What is a conjugation?
The emperor who was stabbed 23 times on the Senate floor
Who was Julius Caesar?
This case stands for possession and comes from the Latin word for "tribe or family"
What is Genitive?
The first "city" of the Roman empire and capital of the Western Empire
What is Rome?
This passage underground has it's roots in the Latin word for "under" - NOT from a sandwich
What is a subway?
"Sum" verbs show ________, not action
What is "existence?" (or "being")
Formerly known as "Octavian," this emperor ruled during the "Pax Romana"
Who was Augustus?
This is the case of the propositional phrase
What is Ablative?
Named after the first Christian emperor, this city became the capital of the Eastern Empire in 330 A.D.
What is Constantinople?
This class of animal eats plants, which is the English meaning of the Latin root word.
What is an herbivore?
Latin verbs have these four qualities
What is person, number, tense and conjugation
This Roman emperor was a brilliant writer and was nicknamed "The Philosopher King"
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
These are the four qualities that all Latin nouns have
What is case, number, gender and declension
Across a channel of water from Gaul, this island territory became the birthplace of the modern English language.
What is Britannia?
This person was a follower of Jesus, and also sounds similar to the Latin word for "student"
What is a disciple?
This is term for when a verb happens.
What is "tense?"