Latin ✨🌈Nuance🌈✨

Question 1

to elect (in a state election)

Answer 1

creo or facio

Question 2

to commit suicide

Answer 2

mortem sibi conscivere

Question 3

advantage (“It is to my advantage to do this thing”)

Answer 3

utilitas

Question 4

when/while in events where 2 things are happening at the same time

Answer 4

dum + the present indicative

Question 5

assembled (“The army assembled at Genovia”)

Answer 5

convenio (NOT cogo!)

Question 6

idiom: “with fire and sword”

Answer 6

igni et ferro

Question 7

to be wounded

Answer 7

vulnus accipio (NOT recipio)

Question 8

to negotiate/treat

Answer 8

ago

Question 9

What type of dative is often used with body parts (e.g. Caesari ad pedes proiecerunt)

Answer 9

dative of advantage/disadvantage

Question 10

what two types of datives make up a double dative?

Answer 10

dative of interest (advantage/disadvantage) + dative of purpose

Question 11

For whose good?

Answer 11

Cui bono? (double dative)

Question 12

what kind of clause results from tam + ut and the subjunctive?

Answer 12

result clause (no tam = a clause of will)

Question 13

what is the difference between the genitives nostrum and nostri?

Answer 13

nostrum is partitive and nostri is objective

Question 14

When is dies masculine or feminine?

Answer 14

Masculine usually, but feminine if it’s an appointed day

Question 15

“at home and in the field” means what and looks like what in Latin?

Answer 15

it means civilian sphere vs military

domi militiaeque

Question 16

What kind of participles are there?

Answer 16

present active, perfect passive, future active, future passive (gerundive)

Question 17

What is the best word for opportunity in “if he is given the opportunity”?

Answer 17

facultas

Question 18

What is the best word for vanquish?

Answer 18

devinco

Question 19

What is the difference between nitor and conor?

Answer 19

both mean strive, but conor emphasizes the attempt

Question 20

What is the best way to translate “Since this is the case”/”That being the case” (favorite of Cicero)

Answer 20

quae cum ita sint

Question 21

what is the difference between…
de urbimus
ab urbimus
ex urbimus

Answer 21

de urbimus (down from the cities)
ab urbimus (away from the cities -- you may or may not have been IN the city to begin with)
ex urbimus (out of/away from the cities -- you were in the city to begin with)

Question 22

What is the idiom for “to consider as a source of gain”?

Answer 22

habere quaestui