Nouns
This is the part of the nouns which determines how it functions in a sentence.
What is the ending?
These are the English pronouns for the 3rd person singular.
What are he, she, or it.
Despite their name, not all gladiators fought with one of these.
What is a gladius (or sword)?
This acronym stands for Latin words meaning "after noon"
What is p.m.?
The mother in our stories
Who is Metella?
Nouns in this case are the subject of their verbs.
What is nominative?
This term, derived from the Latin noun tempus, is used to describe when a verb happens, happened, or will happen.
What is tense?
These were placed right next to roads, so that passers-by could say "Salvē" to their "inhabitants"
What are Roman cemeteries?
This acronym stands for Latin words meaning "and the rest" or "and the other things"
What is etc.?
These people lived in the same houses as citizens!
Who were slaves?
Nouns in this case are the object of verbs or prepositions.
What is accusative?
These letters, placed between the verb stem and the personal endings, tell you a verb is in the imperfect tense.
What are -ba-?
What is an amphitheater?
This acronym, standing for Latin words meaning "that is," are used when explaining another word or phrase or concept
What is i.e.?
The name of Caecilius' "lucky" freedman.
What is Fēlīx?
This is the case of the noun in the phrase, "in atriō"
What is ablative?
The stems of verbs in this tense often end in -v, -s, or -x.
What is the perfect tense?
The Latin name for this object reflects its role in amplifying the voice of an actor.
What is a mask (or persōna)?
The abbreviation A.D., often replaced today with C.E., means this (not "after death")
What is "in the year of the Lord" (Annō Dominī)?
Decēns was apparently killed by the ghost of Pugnāx, who, in life, had been this.
What is a gladiator?
Nouns fall into one of five of these; we will only learn the first three this year.
What are declensions?
Mr. Koonce's favorite ending, it means "they ____ed"
What is -ērunt?
This Latin word for freeing a slave literally translates to "a sending out from the hand"
What is manūmissiō?
The date (according to modern reckoning) that the Romans were counting from when they used the abbreviation A.U.C.
What is 753 B.C. (BCE)?
Visitors from this town came to see gladiatorial combat--and ended up facing violence in the streets of Pompeii!
What is Nuceria? (Or, who are the Nucerīnī?)