Sample Exercises for Part One

I--Translate these sayings, quotations, and mottos:

1. cenabis bene apud me (Catullus)

2. ad astra per aspera

3. cum grano salis

4. ignis fatuus

5. pro aris et focis

6. Inter arma silent leges.

7. In hoc signo vinces.

8. integer vitae, scelerisque purus (Horace)

9. mens sana in corpore sano

10. De gustibus non est disputandum.

11. Post equitem (horseman) sedet atra cura. (Horace)

12. post hoc ergo propter hoc

13. Caveat emptor.

14. Carpe diem. (Horace)

15. Cogito ergo sum. (Descartes)

16. Sed quis custodiat ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)

17. Carthago est delenda. (Cato)

18. Homines dum docent discunt.

19. Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus.

20. Ipse dixit.

21. Dies irae, dies illa...

22. Via Dolorosa.

23. Errare est humanum.

24. Homo sum. humani nil alienum a me puto. Terence.

25. Felix qui rerum cognoscere causas. Lucretius.

 

II--Find and give meanings of the Latin bases of these English words. Be able to give a brief definition or synonym for each.

Note: Latin ae usually becomes e in English.

1. quiddity

2. exacerbate

3. edification

4. estuary

5. exaggerate

6. magnanimity

7. terraqueous

8. aquiline

9. beatitude

10. incandescent

11. decapitate

12. incarcerate

13. caret

14. acceleration

15. censorious

16. discretion

17. ciborium

18. civilization

19. clandestine (< clam)

20. clientele

21. procrastinate

22. recrimination

23. curriculum

24. decimate

25. condolence

26. dulcet, dulcimer

27. egotistical

28. peremptory

29. transitory

30. proficiency

31. infallible

32. materfamilias

33. fanaticism

34. confiteor

35. defenestrate

36. deferential

37. semiferal

38. diffident

39. affiliate

40. affinity

41. conflagration

42. efflorescence

43. confluence

44. confederate

45. fossil

46. regenerative

47. gladiolus

48. cohesive

49. hibernate

50. hortatory

51. subjacent

52. trajectory

53. inanition

54. insulation

55. integral

56. irascible

57. solipsism

58. itinerant

59. conjugal

60. judiciary

61. jurisprudence

62. supralapsarian

63. collaborative

64. largesse

65. latent

66. collateral

67. leniency

68. alleviate

69. subliminal

70. magniloquent

71. malevolent

72. amanuensis

73. commensalism

74. emeritus

75. meticulous

76. minatory

77. commiserate

78. mitigate

79. manumission

80. mollify

81. munition

82. munificent

83. immutable 84. cognate

85. annihilate

86. nimiety

87. innocuous

88. nomenclature

89. equinox

90. annul

91. supernumerary

92. quidnunc

93. annunciation

94. obscurantist

95. inoculate

96. abominate

97. omniumgatherum

98. exonerate

99. opulent

100. negotiate

101. peninsula

102. pagan

103. companion

104. compatible

105. impecunious

106. impediment

107. plebiscite

108. predatory

109. impudent

110. quintessential

111. derelict

112. risible

113. execrable

114. seminary

115. sempiternal

116. non sequitur

117. sepulchre

118. ambisinistrous

119. sparse

120. consummate

121. presumptuous

122. sollicitude

123. reticent

124. temerity

125. contemporary

126. tenebral

127. tutelary

128. ubiquitous

129. uxorious

130. convalesce

131. variegated

132. adventitious

133. proverbial

134. invigilator

135. viable

III--Productive words: find five English derivatives of each of the following:

1. via

2. corpus

3. focus

4. annus

5. aqua

6. bene/bonus

7. fortis

8. forma

9. genus

10. locus

11. manus

12. modus

13. satis

14. similis

15. vox