Nouns
Latin noun endings in -s, -o, -x, are __________?
feminine
camp
(72) Magnus, magna, magnum means _____ and is a _______(part of speech)?
great/large: Adjective
This most famous General of the Roman Republic of Rome uttered his famous last words, "Et tu, Brute?"
Julius Caesar
This city is called "the city of seven hills".
What is Rome.
What case identifies the Declension of a noun?
Genitive (singular)
impediments, impediment-rum
baggage, baggage train
(69) All nouns in this declension are feminine except dies, die which is generally masculine.
5th Declension
"K-9" is a nickname for this police force unit. What is the translation of this Latin word?
canis: dog ; derivative = canine, canine unit
This country was called Gaul in ancient times.
France
Nouns ending in -l, -a, -n, -c, -e, -t are __________?
Neuter
copia, copie
supply, abundance
(66) All nouns in this declension are masculine except for manus, (hand); domus (house); Cornu (horn); genus (knee), and a few others.
4th Declension
In The Star Spangled Banner, this was watched o'er and were gallantly streaming. It was also always erected and a ditch dug.
(p. 66). rampart(s)
a defensive wall of a castle or walled city or fort
This resort city south of Rome was destroyed in 79 A.D. by a volcanic eruption. The ride at Busch Gardens is not actually an "escape".
Pompeii
Nouns have gender, number, case, and ___________?
Declension
If the sigular of copier, copiae means "supply/abundance", what does the plural mean? {copiae, copiarum (Plural)}
troops, forces (a military term)
(64) What gender nouns of the 3rd Declension are declined like flumen, fluminis?
Neuter Nouns of the 3rd Declension
If the time is 5:52 ante meridiem, what time of day is it?
ante meridiem, a.m. It is morning.
According to legend, who were the twin sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia who fled down the Tiber River in a basket and rescued by a she-wolf and whom later founded Rome in 753 B.C.?
Romulus and Remus
This case is translated "by / with / from ______"
Ablative
posuerunt means "they put", "they placed". What does it mean with "caster, castrorum?"
they pitched (w. castra)
(49) Nouns ending in -er, -or are what gender?
masculine
In the classic Robin Williams film, Dead Poets Society, the class stands on desks to say "carpe diem". What does it mean?
"Seize the Day"
After Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C. by Roman senators who feared he would become a king, Caesar's nephew, Augustus, became the 1st Emperor of Rome. It was during this time that Rome's most famous monuments were built including the __________________.
Colosseum