Neuter Nouns
For which two cases do neuter nouns always have the ending "-a"? Make sure to specify between singular and plural.
What are:
Nominative and accusative plural
List the three ways that nouns and adjectives must agree.
What are:
gender, case, and number
liber manus
pax dea
What are:
book hand
peace goddess
Translate:
Milites fideles regem servaverunt.
What is:
The loyal/faithful soldiers saved the king.
Choose the adjective which agrees with the 2nd declension noun mariti.
laetus / laeti / laeto / laetum
What is:
laeti
The plan inspired the students to act. (Hint - plan is a second declension neuter noun)
consilius / consilia / consilio / consilium
What is:
consilium
"Plan" is the subject, and the 2nd decl. nom. sing. ending is "-um"
Choose the adjective which agrees with the 1st declension noun feminīs.
feroces / ferocium / ferocibus / ferocis
What is:
ferocibus
(feminīs and ferocibus are feminine, dative/ablative, plural)
Define these four verbs.
invenire tacēre
discedere recusare
What are:
to find to be quiet/silent
to leave, go away to refuse
Translate:
Maritus dona carae uxorī faciebat.
(carae - dear)
What is:
The husband was making gifts for (his) dear wife.
The terrible smell of the room overwhelmed the people.
cubiculum / cubiculi / cubiculo / cubicula
What is:
cubiculi
"of" means the noun will be genitive
Caecilius tasted many wines at the vineyard.
vinum / vini / vina / vinos
What is:
vina
Choose the adjective which agrees with the 3rd declension noun matres.
laetīs / laetarum / laetae / laeta / laetam
What is:
laetae
(both matres and laetae are fem. nominative plural)
Define these six words.
quo? -que
ibi aliquid
nam quamquam
What are:
where? and
there something
for although
Choose the correct adjective to agree with the italicized noun, then translate.
Feles sacra latrones _________ terruit.
magni / magnīs / magnos / magnorum
What is:
(magnos)
The sacred cat terrified/frightened the big thugs/robbers.
What is
tempus tempora
temporis temporum
temporī temporibus
tempus tempora
tempore temporibus
The boy spotted the procession on the road.
(agmen is a third declension neuter noun)
agmen / agminem / agminum / agmine
What is:
agmen
(the accusative singular is the same as the nominative singular)
Choose the 3rd declension adjective which agrees with the 2nd declension neuter noun consilium.
omnis / omnī / omnem / omne / omnium
What is:
omne
Identify the Latin root of these English derivatives.
infidel soliloquy
regal pacifier
fidelis solus
rex, regis pax, pacis
Translate:
Capita animalium in arbore videmus.
What is:
We see the heads of the animals in the tree.
Translate:
Omnes tabernarii fortem Clementem non adiuvaverunt.
(adiuvo, -are, -avi, -atus - to help)
What is:
All the shopkeepers did not help brave Clemens.
Translate into Latin:
Empires always fall.
(empire - imperium, -i, n.)
(cado, cadere - to fall)
What is:
Imperia semper cadunt.
Translate into Latin:
The wise men do not fight the angry soldier.
(Wise - sapient---)
What is:
Viri sapientes militem iratum non pugnant.
Define these eight words in Latin.
to destroy to be accustomed
afterwards when, where
among, at the house of to refuse
no one perhaps
What are:
delēre solēre
postea ubi
apud recusare
nemo fortasse
Translate into Latin:
The astonished woman has a huge book.
(hint - astonished is a 1st/2nd declension adjective, while huge is third declension)
What is:
Femina attonita ingentem librum habet.
Translate into Latin:
The girl was finding her gifts in front of the tree.
(arbor, arboris, f. - tree)
What is:
Puella dona pro arbore inveniebat.