Nouns and Pronouns
Fill in the blank:
The _________ case is used to indicate possession.
Genitive
What four verb tenses have you learnt?
Present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect
Stage 8: saepe
often
Our word "maternal" comes from what Latin word?
"mater" meaning mother
What was Caecilius' job?
A banker
What declension is the noun "mercator"
3rd declension
How do we translate the pluperfect tense?
"had _____"
Stage 9: dat
he gives
Where does our word "resurgence" come from?
Hint: re = again or back
e.g. return = to turn back/to turn again
surgit - rises
re - again
resurgence - to rise again
Which two characters survived the eruption of Vesuvius from the first book?
Clemens and Quintus
List the four noun cases we have learnt and how they are translated.
Nominative - subject
Accusative - object
Dative - to/for
Genitive - of
What is the correct term we use when we are talking about changing the endings of a verb?
E.g. we decline a noun
Conjugating
Stage 10: vehementer
violently
A hotel porter greets guests, carries their luggage and shows them to their rooms.
Find a word in the sentence above that's derived from a Latin verb that you know.
porter - someone who carries something
Where is Quintus narrating this stage from and where is he in the stories, in this stage?
Britain and Alexandria
What is the dative singular form of the pronoun "nos" and what does it mean?
How do you say, "they had greeted"
(Hint: salutat - she/he greets)
salutaverant
Stage 11: murus
wall
Our word "percussion" comes from the Latin "percutio, percutere, percussi" - what do you think this verb means?
To strike
How did Quintus get money to travel?
He sold his father's houses in Campania
How do you say,
"The slaves were dining with you" in Latin?
To say, "with you":
the Latin word for "with" + acc. form of "tu"
servi tecum cenebant.
How do you say, "we were happy" in Latin?
The word for happy is "laetus". You need to change this to the nominative plural form. It is second declension in this example.
laeti eramus
Stage 12: paene
nearly/almost
What do you think the Latin word for "twins" is?
gemini
In Book 1, what was the name of the two political candidates in Stage 11?
Marcus and Quartus