History of Languages
The relationship between English and Latin
They share a common ancestor
The three possible genders of a Latin noun
masculine, feminine, neuter
puer, -i m.
boy
True or false: a sentence's direct object can be found inside a prepositional phrase
false
Latin adjectives steal these three things from the noun they describe
gender, case, number
Name two Romance languages (i.e., languages descended from Latin)
Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese
declensions
omnis, -e
all, every
Term for nouns that are always capitalized
proper noun
The three verb tenses in English
past, present, future
Name of the language that ultimately transformed into many different languages, including English, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Hindi, Sinhalese, Persian/Farsi, and Russian.
Proto-Indo-European
Also accepted: Indo-European
Latin verbs can all be classified into ______.
conjugations
sine
without
The required order of nouns and verbs in an English sentence
SVO / subject-verb-object
How to translate the Latin preposition "in" when it is followed by an object in the accusative case
into or onto
The name of the language sub-family that contains such languages as English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic, but not languages descended from Latin
Germanic
inflections
magnopere
greatly
A noun formed by adding -ing to a verb
gerund
jobs or occupations
The closest-related language to English
Answer 1: Dutch (closest of the widely-spoken languages)
Answer 2: Frisian (technical closest relative, not common)
How many Latin cases are there total (Hint: we haven't studied all of them!)
5 or 6 or 7
semiustilatus, -a, -um
half-cooked
The voice of the verb in the sentence "The dog is chased by me."
passive
One historical event that led to Latin-derived terms entering the English language
Norman Conquest, conversion to Christianity, Renaissance and Scientific Revolution