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• 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

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