Declensions and Conjugations
The nouns of this declension are primarily male.
What is the 2nd declension?
This god is the king of the gods.
Who is Jupiter?
This dictator perpetuo held his position until his assassination on the Ides of March.
Who is Gaius Julius Caesar?
This hero is the titular protagonist of Homer's epic, involving his return home from Troy.
Who is Ulysses?
From the word centum, meaning a time period of a hundred years.
What is a century?
ambulo, ambulare, ambulavi, ambulatum is a verb from this conjugation.
What is the 1st conjugation?
This goddess is the deity of both the moon and the hunt.
Who is Diana?
This ruler was the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
Who is Octavian?
This Trojan prince, described as one of Troy's greatest warriors, is ultimately slain by Achilles.
Who is Hector?
From fugio, this word refers to people fleeing their home countries to escape disaster and persecution.
What is a refugee?
What is -ibus?
This god is the deity of war as well as agriculture.
Who is Mars?
A general during the late Republic, this man's life ended by suicide after fleeing with Cleopatra to Egypt.
Who is Mark Antony?
Known as the founder of Rome, after killing his twin brother over a dispute.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This word, meaning "see-through," comes from lux, or light.
What is translucent?
res, rei is a noun from this declension.
What is the 5th declension?
This god is often depicted as being the messenger of the gods.
Who is Mercury?
A prolific author and consul during the late Republic, this man's cognomen comes from the Latin word for "chickpea."
Who is Marcus Tullius Cicero?
This hero, a demi-god and son of Jupiter, is best known for slaying Medusa.
Who is Perseus?
Originally meaning "crab" in Latin, this word is now used as the name for a disease.
What is cancer?
4th declension neuter nouns have this ending in the plural accusative.
What is -ua?
This god is the patron of wine.
Who is Bacchus?
A member of the First Triumvirate with Crassus and Caesar, this man was Caesar's opponent in civil war.
Who is Pompey / Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus?
After losing in a contest of weaving to Minerva, this woman was turned into a spider.
Who is Arachne?
Originally used to describe the practice of culling every tenth man as punishment in Roman armies, this word now takes on a more drastic meaning.
What is decimate?