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 _____________

• Quid agis?– Idiom – How are you?

– Literally means “What are you doing?”

• Responde

– Bene = well -- Optime= very well

– Male=badly -- Pessime= very badly

• 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

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

• Genuflect =

– bend at the knee

• Oral = os, oris =

– mouth

• aural = auris = ear

• Osculum = os + culum =

– little mouth = kiss

– (osculate = to kiss)

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)

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

• Compounds of duco:

• Ductile,

• induce,

• deduce,

• deduct,

• product,

• conduct,

• reduce,

• introduce,

• Seduce

• Compounds of scribo (scriptum):

• Inscribe,

• prescribe,

• describe,

• proscribe,

• conscribe,

• post scriptum

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?

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

Dollar Bill

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

Latium

•Rome

•Latium

•Naples

•Tiber River

•Apennine Mountains

•Tyrrhenian Sea

•Adriatic Sea

•Venice

•Florence

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

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

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

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