Latin

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BELL WORK

Answer the following questions:

• In English, what kinds of ways can you use nouns in a sentence?• What are 3 professions that

have a word for men that is different from the word for women in the same profession?

TODAYStudents will know and understand:I. The caput 2 part 1

vocabulary.II. The noun cases.III. Noun gender.

Caput Ii Part I vocabularyFāma, fāmae-f.: rumor, report; fame, reputation (famous, defame, infamy)Fōrma, fōrmae-f: form, shape; beauty (formal, format, formula, formless, deform, inform)Fortūna, fortūnae-f: fortune, luck (fortunate, misfortune, unfortunate)Īra, īrae-f: ire, anger (irate, irascible)Nauta, nautae-m: sailor (nautical, nautilus, argonaut, astronaut)Patria, patriae-f: fatherland, native land (one’s) country (patriotic, expatriate, repatriate)Pecūnia, pecūniae-f: money (pecuniary, impecunious)Philosophia, philosophiae-f: philosophy (philosophy)Poena, poenae-f: penalty, punishment (penal, penalize, penalty, pain, subpoena)

Poenas dare: to pay the penaltyPoēta, poētae-m: poet (poetry, poetic)

Porta, portae-f: gate, entrance (portal, portico, porch, porthole)

Puella, puellae-f: girl

Noun cases

Latin uses endings to indicate the job of a noun in a sentence and we call the jobs cases.Nominative case-Subject noun or predicate nominativeGenitive case-Shows possessionDative case-Indirect object, indicated by the prepositions to and forAccusative case- Direct object, sometimes the object of the prepositionAblative case-Object of the prepositionVocative case-Interjection or direct address

Gender

Like in English, Latin has 3 genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter (neutral). In most cases, the gender of a noun is not logical.Mensa-table f.Murus-wall m.Donum-gift n.Almost all 1st declension nouns are feminine.Poeta-m. Nauta-m.Agricola-m.

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