Ch 22 Grammer

Question 1

What are the Roman Numerals?

Answer 1

I - 1
V - 5
X - 10
L - 50
C - 100
D - 500
M - 1000

Question 2

How do you subtract a Roman Numeral?

Answer 2

If a symbol appears to the left of the higher value (for example IV [5 - 1 = 4])

Question 3

What are Cardinal Numbers?

Answer 3

Primary counting numbers (regular numbers like 1, 3 10, thirteen, twenty-five, etc., but not first, second, 5th, 11th, etc.)

Question 4

What are the cases for Duo (“two”) in Masc. Fem. and Neut.? (remember that duo can only be declined in the plural)

Answer 4

Duo Duae Duo
Duōrum Duārum Duōrum
Duōbus Duābus Duōbus
Duōs Duās Duo
Duōbus Duābus Duōbus

Question 5

What is the prefix for the following numbers:
one

Answer 5

ūn-

Question 6

What is the prefix for the following numbers:
two

Answer 6

duo-

Question 7

What is the Latin word for three? And what is its prefix?

Answer 7

trēs, tria (declines like a third i stem adj.)
tre-

Question 8

What is the Latin word for four? And what are its two prefixes?

Answer 8

quattuor
quat-
quid-

Question 9

What is the Latin word for five? And what is its prefix?

Answer 9

quīnque
quīn-

Question 10

What is the Latin word for six? And what is its prefix?

Answer 10

sex
sēd-

Question 11

What is the Latin word for seven? And what is its prefix?

Answer 11

semptem
septen-

Question 12

What is the Latin word for eight? And what is its prefix?

Answer 12

octō
octō-

Question 13

What is the Latin word for nine? And what is its prefix?

Answer 13

novem
nōna-

Question 14

What is the Latin word for ten? And what is the suffix that is used as the base for numbers 11-17?

Answer 14

1. decim (“ten”)
2. -decim (for example ūndecim “eleven”; Quīndecim “fifteen”)

Question 15

What is the Latin word for twenty? And what is the suffix that is used as the base for numbers 30-90?

Answer 15

1. vīrgintā (“twenty”)
2. -gintā (for example Trīgintā “thirty”; octōgintā “eighty”)

Question 16

What is the Latin word for eighteen?

Answer 16

Duodēvīgintī (literally “two-less-than-twenty”)

Question 17

What is the Latin word for nineteen?

Answer 17

ūndēvīgintī (literally “one-less-than-twenty”)

Question 18

What is the Latin word for one hundred? And what is the suffix that is used as the base for numbers 200-900?

Answer 18

1. centum
2. -centī, -centae, -centa (these words begin to decline like 2-1-2 adjectives [For example: ducentī, ae, a “two hundred”; septingentī, ae, a “seven hundred”)]

Question 19

What are ordinal numbers?

Answer 19

Numbers that reveal the order or sequence of nouns (first, second, 5th, 11th, etc.)

Question 20

How will you recognize most ordinal numbers?

Answer 20

1. They will most often look like the cardinal numbers that you have memorized
2. They will decline like 2-1-2 adjectives

Question 21

Prīmus, -a, -um

Answer 21

first

Question 22

secundus, -a, -um

Answer 22

second

Question 23

What is the latin word for 1,000?

Answer 23

mīlle

Question 24

What is the suffix for Latin numbers between 200-900?

Answer 24

1. -entī, -ae, -a (sometimes the suffix is -gentī; such as ducentī “200”; quadringentī “400)
   [pay special attention the suffix for numbers for 20-90 is -gintā which is similar to entī]