Salve, Magistra

Quid nomen tibi est?

Mihi nomen est…

Chapter 1 TWO ROMAN GIRLS

Ecce! In pictūrā est puella, nomine

Cornēlia. Cornēlia est puella Rōmāna quae in

Italiā habitat. Etiam in pictūrā est vīlla rūstica

ubi Cornēlia aestāte habitat. Cornēlia est

laeta quod iam in vīllā habitat. Cornēlia iam

sub arbore sedet et legit. Etiam in pictūrā est

altera puella, nōmine Flāvia. Flāvia est puella

Rōmāna quae in vīllā vīcīnā habitat. Dum

Cornēlia legit, Flāvia scrībit. Laeta est Flāvia

quod Cornēlia iam in vīllā habitat.

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1. Who is in the picture?

2. Who is Cornelia?

3. What else is in the picture?

4. When does Cornelia live in the country house?

5. How does Cornelia feel about living there?

6. What is she doing?

7. Who else is in the picture?

8. Who is Flavia?

9. What are the two girls doing?

10. Why is Flavia happy?

1a. Responde Latine

1. Quis est Cornelia?2. Ubi habitat Cornelia?3. Cur est Cornelia laeta?4. Quid facit Cornelia?5. Ubi habitat Flavia?6. Quid facit Flavia?7. Cur est Flavia laeta?

•Latin sentences have a more flexible word order than English.

Puella in villa habitat. In villa puella habitat. Habitat in villa puella…

•Latin doesn’t have articles (“a”, “an”, or “the”).

•Latin, unlike English, has only one present tense, but it can be translated three ways into English:

sedet: she sits, she is sitting, she does sit

Let’s Review

Parts of Speech The boy yelled, “Help!” and he saw

a brave dog quickly run to the rescue.

Noun

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing.

Person Place Thing girl school pencil boy home jacket teacher store dog

Pronoun A pronoun is used in place of a noun in a sentence. A pronoun

may take the place of the name of a person, place, or thing.

I we you you (y’all) he, she, it they

Verb A verb tells what action someone or something is doing, or it can

express a state of being.

Action State of Being run jump am is sit ask are was think talk were

Adjective An adjective describes a noun or

a pronoun. An adjective tells what kind, how many, or which

one.

What Kind How Many Which One

happy more this brave six that

Article The words a, an, and the belong to a special group of adjectives

called articles. An article can be used before a noun in a sentence.

A An The a dog an apple the boy a rabbit an ant the bird

Adverb An adverb describes a verb,

adjective, or another adverb. An adverb tells how, when, where, or

to what degree. When How Where To What Degree today quickly outside barely

Preposition A preposition combines with a

noun or pronoun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in a sentence. It very often refers to location in time or space. from to until over with after

Conjunction A conjunction joins together single

words or groups of words in a sentence.

and but or nor

Interjection An interjection expresses strong

feeling or emotion. An interjection can be a single word or a phrase. Help! Oh! Ouch! Ugh! Whew! Ah! My goodness! Look out! Oh dear!

Nomen? Verbum? Adjectivum?

In pictura est puella.

In pictura est villa ubi

Cornelia aestate habitat.

Corrnelia sub arbore sedet

et legit.

In pictura est altera puella,

nomine Flavia.

Dum Cornelia legit,

Flavia scribit.

nomen

nomen

nomen

nomen

verbum

adiectivum

nomen

verbum

Answer the following questions after reading the Introduction on pages xii – xv of your text.

1. Who are the members of the family featured in our reading? 2. When do the readings take place? What important event occurred just prior to

the readings? 3. What sort of place was Baiae? Who lived there? What do you think would be a

modern equivalent? 4. English is considered to be a hybrid between Germanic and Romance

languages. What are the other 5 Romance languages? What other languages do you think are Germanic?

5. How did Latin words come into English? What does English have that Latin

does not?

Quis est puella? Puella est Cornelia quae aestate in villā rusticā habitat.

Cornelia in villā rusticā est laeta quod sub arbore legit. In villā vicinā

habitat altera puella Romana, nomine Flavia.

Hodie Cornelia in villā sedet et legit. Ubi est Flavia? Ecce! Etiam in

villā sedet Flavia. Quid facit Flavia? Flavia scribit dum Cornelia legit. Flavia

est laeta quod in villā scribit.