Who knows the 'dead' language of Latin?

[Neoma]

Teach me; or hell, just find me a decent Latin root website.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. What do you need to know?

[Neoma]

6. Everything?

[bigwillq]

2. I took it in High School

but I didn't really learn much..the boys' basketball coach was the teacher and all we did was talk sports...I really don't remember any of it.

[Neoma]

8. Must not have been interested in it at the time.

[bigwillq]

11. Not really.

Well, freshman year my best friend's aunt taught the class so I took it to be with my friend and I knew it would be an easy A. Then she retired and the basketball coach took over the class and again, I took it for the east grade and just to chill out and have fun.

[El Fuego]

3. OK:

O Civili, Si Ergo.
Fortibus Es In Ero.
O Novili, Doser Nobus, Doser Trux.
Vadis Inem?
Causen Dux.

[Neoma]

7. That's not really helping any.

Mainly because I don't know what any of that means.

[El Fuego]

14. Sure ya do! Read it again:

Oh see, Willie! See there go
Forty buses in a row.

Oh No, Willie! Dose are no bus, dose are trucks!
What is in 'em?
COWS AND DUCKS!

:rofl:

O Civili, Si Ergo.
Fortibus Es In Ero.
O Novili, Doser Nobus, Doser Trux.
Vadis Inem?
Causen Dux.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Two years and counting--going for all four in HS.

Great language. Quid volas?

[Neoma]

9. What's Quid volas mean?

[Callalily]

5. Flectere si

nequeo superos, Achaeronta movebo!

[Neoma]

10. If you say so...

:yoiks:

[Callalily]

12. I hated HS Latin

Translation of my post, "If I cannot move heaven I will raise hell" Yup, that's me! :rofl:

[Neoma]

13. I want to learn it for the hell of it.

;)

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Latin is a dead language,

That is plain to see.
It killed off all the Romans,
And now it's killing me.

A little verse from the one year I took Latin, more than 40 years ago.

Agricola = farmer.

[Rising Phoenix]

16. I still can read a little Latin

there are tons of translations out their on the web....got me an A in my final semester

[rug]

17. Hic:

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/vocabmain.html

[Neoma]

21. Thanks.

[XemaSab]

18. Scio

Parvus. :P

[triguy46]

19. I took a 5 hour latin class my Freshman year in college....

And made a D. Don't ask me for help.

[xmas74]

20. I took a course in college

but showed up high most of the time. Surprisingly, I had a decent grade but I didn't retain a single bit of it.

Sorry I can't help you.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. You learn lots of excellent English derivatives.

I took two years in high school.

Sum, esse, fui. Latin is screwy.

I am, I was, I will be.


Veni, Vidi, Visa.

I came, I saw, I spent it all.

[Neoma]

23. Are you sure that's what Visa means?

Rofl.

[Turbineguy]

24. Reminds me again

of being 13 and translating stuff about soldiers inserting their gladias into their vaginas.

But still, it must be said: the true Romans never walked anywhere, they proceeded.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. Ah yes, vagina means "sheath" as in a scabbard for a sword.

great trivia.


My kid was really impressed when I told her that to defenestrate someone means to throw them out a window. fenestra = window.

She was also impressed when I told her that "pandaemonium" is Greek for "Wall to wall demons"
:evilgrin:


I still haven't figured out why some German words are similar to Latin or Romance language words even though they are two separate branches of Indo-european.

as in speculum=spiegel=mirror=speculate or fenestra=finster=window.

[Turbineguy]

27. Wall to wall demons

sounds like the Bush Administration.

At one time all European aristocrats spoke french. It was the in thing. So, many french words made it into everyday usage. In Dutch there were so many french words that they passed an act of parliament to change the spelling to the Dutch where every letter is pronoumced. Cadeau (gift) became kado. In The Hague (being the seat of government and all) some people just took french words and put them into Dutch grammar which made it sound like they were talking in some weird code.

[Neoma]

28. Say what!?

[DFW]

26. I barely remember that Omnia Gallia est in tres partes divisa

And although it may have been true at the time, the author
of the passage that begins with that (Julius Caesar) didn't
end too well---a pre-revenge for my having to read about
the Gallic Wars in the original, although Caesar was
Hemingway compared to some of the others I had to suffer
through.

Give me living languages to learn, and the dead ones to
respect.