Collegiate Questions—Intermediate Flashcards
Aurīga, pīrāta, athlēta, and nauta all share what grammatical distinction?
THEY ARE ALL FIRST DECLENSION MASCULINES
B1: Please articulate why those four words are masculine even though they are first declension.
THEY ARE ALL MASCULINE-CODED/EXCLUSIVE PROFESSIONS [ACCEPT EQUIVS.]
B2: Of the fourth-declension nouns domus, tumultus, portus, and manus, identify all that are feminine. You will not be prompted for incomplete answers; you must name them all at once.
DOMUS and MANUS
Which of the following would you not do if you were late for your next round: contendō, festīnō, consīdō, currō?
CONSĪDŌ
B1: Give an antonym of the word consīdō.
SURGŌ / STŌ
B2: Other than “hurry,” give the meaning of the word contendō as used in the following sentence: hī dē consulātū inter sē contendērunt.
COMPETE / STRUGGLE / FIGHT
What Latin noun, the only word that can be multiple genders in the 5th declension, lies at the root of “journal,” “diurnal,” and “meridian”?
DIĒS (MEANING “DAY”)
B1: What 1st-declension Latin noun with what meaning lies at the root of “isolate,” though its most famous derivative comes from a compound with paene?
ĪNSULA – ISLAND [THE OTHER DERIVATIVE IS “PENINSULA”]
B2: What 3rd declension Latin noun with what meaning lies at the root of “ferret”?
FŪR – THIEF
Differentiate in meaning between the verbs dēleō and dēbeō
DESTROY & OWE
B1: Give the four principal parts of any one of these verbs.
[SEE BELOW]
B2: Give the four principal parts of the other.
DĒLEŌ, DĒLĒRE, DĒLĒVĪ, DĒLĒTUS/M
or DĒBEŌ, DĒBĒRE, DĒBUĪ, DĒBITUS/M
What meaning do the Latin roots of all of the following words have in common: “desire,” “quasar,” “considerate,” “stellar”?
STAR
B1: What Latin perfect passive participle can be used in English to mean “a required thing” and also comes from the Latin word sīdus?
DESIDERATUM / DĒSĪDERĀTUM
B2: Based on its etymology, what is the likely original meaning of the Latin verb consīderō, from which we get “consider”?
TO {LOOK AT // PONDER} THE STARS
Put the following four adverbs in perfect chronological order: crās, ōlim, heri, postrīdiē.
ŌLIM, HERI, CRĀS, POSTRĪDIĒ
B1: Give the meaning of proximō annō in both of these sentences. Sentence 1: Olympicōs Lūdōs proximō annō spectāvī. Sentence 2: Multī nunc spērant sē proximō annō Praesidentem factum īrī.
LAST YEAR & NEXT YEAR [respectively]
B2: What comparative adjective, literally meaning “higher up,” is used to refer to a time “one step further away” than proximus?
SUPERIOR
Complete the following analogy: post is to posteā as inter is to [blank]?
INTEREĀ
B1: Give the respective meanings of posteā and intereā, both of which are adverbs that come from prepositions.
AFTER(WARD(S)) & MEANWHILE
B2: Give the Latin word you would use instead of posteā to translate the word “after” in the following sentence: “After we played in the Yale Certamen, we went on a grand tour of the New Haven pizza scene.”
POSTQUAM
“Endow,” “extradite,” “addition,” and “dative” are all derived from what verb with what meaning?
DŌ – GIVE
B1: What derivative of dō, through its compound trādō, can mean “to unintentionally reveal” or “to forsake one’s trust”?
BETRAY
B2: What derivative of dō refers to property or money brought by a bride to her husband on her marriage?
DOWRY
What category of words in Latin includes adverbs like semel, “ordinal” forms like nōnus, or “cardinal” forms like novem, centum, or ūnus?
NUMERAL(S) / NUMBER(S)
B1: What is the ordinal form that means “tenth”?
DECIMUS
B2: What is the cardinal form that means “forty”?
QUADRĀGINTĀ
You can overwhelm or underwhelm, but you can’t whelm. Which of these compound verbs works the same way, meaning you can’t just say the main part of the verb: dēmonstrō, dēvorō, dēfendō, dēcurrō?
DĒFENDŌ
B1: What other Latin compound of -fendō can have such meanings as “to find” or “to make a mistake”?
OFFENDŌ
B2: What English verb, meaning “to look after oneself,” comes from the Latin compound verb dēfendō?
FEND
What English adjective derived from pēs means “convenient and practical although possibly improper
or immoral”?
EXPEDIENT
B1: Which of the following words is not derived from pēs: appease, impede, peon, millipede, pawn?
APPEASE
B2: From what Latin word with what meaning do we derive “appease”?
PAX - PEACE
Of the verbs capiō, fluō, haereō, and vēndō, which describes an action most likely performed by a
mercātor?
VĒNDŌ
B1: Of the verbs regō, colō, exerceō, errō, and plaudō, which describes an action most likely performed by an āthlēta?
EXERCEŌ
B2: Of the verbs pellō, putō, frangō, rapiō, and nūntiō, which describes an action most likely performed by a philosophus?
PUTŌ
Differentiate in meaning between tamen and tandem.
TAMEN – NEVERTHELESS, HOWEVER, YET, STILL; TANDEM – FINALLY, AT LENGTH
B1: Differentiate in meaning between valdē and unde.
VALDĒ – VERY, EXCEEDINGLY; UNDE – FROM WHERE, WHENCE
B2: Differentiate in meaning between paulisper and pauper.
PAULISPER – FOR A LITTLE WHILE, FOR A SHORT TIME; PAUPER – POOR
