Vocabulary
numerus, numerī
What is the Latin word for 'number'?
These are the genders for nouns that can be found in the 2nd declension.
What are masculine and neuter?
Puer, puerī in the genitive plural form.
What is puerōrum?
This divinity was in charge of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
The Latin word for 'Man'.
What is vir?
Irregular nouns in the 2nd declension have a nominative form that ends in these two letters.
What are '-er'?
Magnus, a, um declined to match with amica.
What is magna?
This god, associated with horses, was in charge of causing earthquakes.
Who is Poseidon?
The Latin word for 'a few.'
This is the thematic vowel, the vowel the endings are based off of, for 2nd declension nouns.
What is '-ō'?
The case and number of agros.
What is accusative plural?
This animal was paradoxically paired with Hermes, god of messengers and swiftness.
The English meaning for 'dē'.
What is 'about, concerning, or down from'?
These are the qualities that an adjective must copy from the noun it is paired with.
What are case, number, and gender?
The dative singular of numerus, -ī.
What is numerō?
This priestly college was in charge of the worship of each of the gods, as well as managing sacrifices and maintaining the year's calendar.
What was the College of Pontiffs.
The English meaning for satiō, satiāre, satiāvī, satiātum.
This is the term for when two nouns in the same case are placed next to each other in order to add detail to or rename one of them.
What is apposition?
The vocative singular of amicus, amicī.
What is amice?
This college of priests was in charge of the protection and interpretation of the Sibylline Books, which were said to predict the future and offer advice on how to stop disasters.
Who were the Quindecemviri, or the Fifteen Men?