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Salvete!
• Mihi nomen est Magistra Whipple
– The name Magistra Whipple is to me
**mihi = Dative of Possession**
• Quod tibi nomen est?
– What name is to you?
**tibi = ????**
–Responde: Mihi nomen est _____________
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• Quid agis?– Idiom – How are you?
– Literally means “What are you doing?”
• Responde
– Bene = well -- Optime= very well
– Male=badly -- Pessime= very badly
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• Go over Sylabus
• Today’s homework:
– Look up in an English dictionary to find the English definition and the Latin root word
• Nominate
• Binomial Nomenclature
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Why are you taking Latin?
1. Origin of medical terms
• Patella = little bowl =
– kneecap
• Latissimus dorsi =
– widest of the back = back muscle
• Muscle = mus + culum =
– little mouse
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• Genuflect =
– bend at the knee
• Oral = os, oris =
– mouth
• aural = auris = ear
• Osculum = os + culum =
– little mouth = kiss
– (osculate = to kiss)
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Why are you taking Latin?
2. Legal terms
• Habeas corpus =
– you may have the body• court order which directs the law enforcement officials (prison administrators,
police or sheriff) who have custody of a prisoner to appear in court with the prisoner to help the judge determine whether the prisoner is lawfully in prison or jail.
• Modus operandi =
– M.O. of a crime = method of operating
– (operandi is a gerund)
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Why are you taking Latin?
3. Increase vocabulary• Umbrella = umbra=shade + ella = small ===== little shade• So who is Cinderella?????• Somnambulist = somnium + ambulo• Compounds of specto:
• Spectacle, • spectacular, • inspect, • circumspect, • respect, • disrespect
Prospect
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• Compounds of duco:
• Ductile,
• induce,
• deduce,
• deduct,
• product,
• conduct,
• reduce,
• introduce,
• Seduce
• Compounds of scribo (scriptum):
• Inscribe,
• prescribe,
• describe,
• proscribe,
• conscribe,
• post scriptum
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Is it a dead language????
• Do you need to know how to say “Where is the bathroom?”
Ubi est latrina?
• Or do you need to know the word ubiquitous?
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Common phrases (mottoes)
• Labor omnia vincit.• Labor conquers all
• Ad astra per aspera.• To the stars through difficulties
• On the dollar bill: • E pluribus unum
• One out of many
• annuit coeptis• He has blessed the undertakings.
• novus ordo seclorum• New order of the ages.
• A.D. = • Anno Domini
• In the year of the Lord
• B.C. –• before Christ
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Dollar Bill
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Roman History Overview
• April 21, 753 B.C. founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus
• 753-509 B.C. Monarchy (7 kings)
• 509- 44 B.C. Republic
• 27 B.C. - 476 A.D. Empire (west falls)
• -1453 A.D. Empire (east falls)
Maps
Day 1 Maps.ppt
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Latium
•Rome
•Latium
•Naples
•Tiber River
•Apennine Mountains
•Tyrrhenian Sea
•Adriatic Sea
•Venice
•Florence
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Important things to know about Latin
• Origin of the term Latin:
– Latium = area around Rome
– Latinus = early king of Rome whose daughter, Lavinia, married Aeneas
• Origin of the Romance languages:
– Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian
– Roman --> Romance
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Another important thing to know
• Latin is an Inflected language - not a language of order, but a language of
– bent “flect” words.
– E.G. Labor omnia vincit = Omnia vincit labor
• Does NOT mean Latin has no order, just means order is a guideline, not a rule necessary for understanding the language
– Typical order: subject object verb
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What word describes you?
• Altus, alta = tall
• Brevis, brevis = short
• candidus, -a = bright, shining
• Parvus, parva
• Magnus, magna
• Stultus, stulta = stupid
• Fatuus, fatua = foolish
• Ignavus, ignava=lazy
• Diligens,diligens
• Piger, pigra= lazy
• Bonus
• Malus
• Miser, misera
• Pulcher, pulchra
• Clarus
• Laetus
• Felix
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How about these?
• pinguis, pinguis
• gravis, gravis
• clemens
• rotundus
• fortis
• intelligens
• sapiens
• longus
• latus
• fidelis
• fidus
• caeruleus
• flavus
• ruber, rubra
• saevus
• ferus
• beatus
• Tacitus
• Solus