| NOUNS | 1st Declension: -A, -AE (mostly fem) | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| COPIAE (pl) | FORCES, TROOPS | copious | we can **cope** with more troops; send in the 'cops' |
| MORA | DELAY | moratorium | the Mines of Mor(i)a caused delay for the Fellowship of the Ring; also helps to learn this one with the preposition 'sine' as a phrase: 'sine mora': without delay |
| NOUNS | 3rd Declension: various stems and genders | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| COMES, comitis (c) | COMPANION | ? | your companion 'comes' with you; also sounds like **committee** |
| CONIUNX, coniugis (c) | WIFE, HUSBAND | conjunction, conjugation, | deriv.'s give idea of 'joined together'; in plural tends to mean 'a married couple' |
| FLUMEN, fluminis(n) | RIVER | flume | riding the rivers of water in waterpark flumes |
| ITER, itineris (n) | JOURNEY | itinerary | make the journey to 'Iter'-ly |
| LUX, lucis (f) | LIGHT | elucidate | visualise a 'luxury' hotel full of lights; a **hallucination** is a trick of the light |
| MORS, MORTIS (f) | DEATH | (im)mortal | (deriv.'s) |
| MULIER, mulieris (f) | WOMAN | very similar in Spanish | remember those adverts for Muller yoghurt, with the woman licking the spoon...? |
| NEMO (acc: neminem) | NOBODY | ? | nobody could find Nemo! Also, nobody ought to like (n)Eminem... |
| NIHIL (indeclinable) | NOTHING | annihilate | deriv.; also football scores: Spurs 3, Arsenal 0 |
| PARS, partis (f) | PART | part | umm... (why isn't this one in the Nifty Fifty!!?) |
| SOROR, sororis (f) | SISTER | sorority | does your sister cause you 'sorowr'? |
| UXOR, uxoris(f) | WIFE | uxorious | the old song 'amo, amas, I love a lass' has a line: 'If I've luck, sir, she's my ux-or' |
| VIRTUS, virtutis (f) | COURAGE | virtue, virtuous | connect with 'vir': the best quality of a Roman man was his courage |
| VOX, vocis (f) | VOICE | vocal, voice | deriv.'s; see also prompts for 'voco' |
| VULNUS, vulneris (n) | WOUND | (in)vulnerable | (deriv.'s) |
| ADJECTIVES | 1st/2nd Declension: -US -A -UM | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| CARUS | DEAR | caring, careful | deriv.'s; also some people's car is their dearest possession... |
| CETERI | THE REST (OF) | et cetera | etc, etc, etc...; in the Blue Square Premiership, there's Kettering Town, and then there's the rest... |
| MEDIUS | THE MIDDLE OF | medium, medieval | deriv.'s |
| PAUCI | (A) FEW | paucity | you can only fit a few items in a pouch |
| ADJECTIVES | 3rd Declension | ||
| AUDAX (stem: audac-) | BOLD, DARING | audacious | "au dar 'e" do that! |
| CRUDELIS -is -e | CRUEL | cruel | 'Cruella de Ville' |
| FACILIS -is -e | EASY | facility, Fr. facile | opposite of dif-ficilis |
| INGENS (stem: ingent-) | HUGE | ? | looks similar to **gigantic**; or, visualise a huge 'engine' |
| OMNIS -is -e | ALL, EVERY | omnivore, omnibus | a 'bus (omnibus) is public transport: there for everyone |
| SAPIENS (stem: sapient-) | WISE | sapient | our species: homo sapiens |
| TRISTIS -is -e | SAD | Fr. triste | Tristan & Isolde is a very sad story |
| PRONOUNS | Demonstrative; reflexive | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| HIC haec hoc (Now only required for Level 3) | THIS, THESE; HE, SHE, IT, THEY | ? | to distinguish the types of meaning: 'if it agrees, it's this or these; if it doesn't agree, it's he or she!' |
| ILLE illa illud (as Hic above) | THAT, THOSE; HE, SHE, IT, THEY | Fr: il, elle | similar rules apply to distinguish the meanings as for hic above |
| IS ea id | HE, SHE, IT, THEY; THAT, THOSE | ? | may help to use **it**; once again use the rules above to distinguish the meanings |
| SE (dat. sibi) | HIMSELF, THEMSELVES (etc.) | suicide | the 'reflexive' pronoun: suicide: he killed himself. 'se' has no nom. case - this role is performed by 'ipse' |
| PREPOSITIONS | with cases as shown | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| INTER (+ acc) | AMONGST, BETWEEN | international, intercity | (deriv.) |
| PRO (+ abl) | FOR, ON BEHALF OF; in compounds it means 'forward' | proceed, projector | to weigh up the 'pros' and 'cons'; a professional does the job for money |
| PROPTER (+ acc) | BECAUSE OF | ? | the play was good because of the prompter; the Rugby team won because of the props (careful not to confuse with 'prope'!) |
| SINE (+ abl) | WITHOUT | sinecure | there is no-one really without sin; also helps to learn it alongside 'mora': without delay |
| SUPER (+ acc) | OVER | superior, supernatural | deriv.'s; also six good balls in a row is a 'super over'! |
| ADVERBS | all indeclinable | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| CRAS | TOMORROW | procrastinate | deriv.; also "it's crass to put things off til tomorrow" |
| FORTE | BY CHANCE | fortunately | fortunately it happened by a lucky chance |
| FRUSTRA | IN VAIN | frustration | (deriv.) |
| HERI | YESTERDAY | Fr. hier | today I've had a shave, but yesterday I was.... |
| POSTEA | AFTERWARDS, LATER ON | as for 'post' | to distinguish 'post-e-a' from post & postquam, count the syllables as well as those of its meanings |
| QUAM | THAN | ? | (this is the meaning you'll need for CE Lev 2 - it does have others e.g. 'how' ); rhyme it: 'quam-than' |
| QUOQUE | ALSO, TOO | ? | use the '-que' as a prompt: 'etiam' means also andquoque does too |
| TUM | THEN | ? | I ate too much and then I got a pain in my 'tum' |
| CONJUNCTIONS | all indeclinable | ||
LATIN | ENGLISH | DERIVATIVE | VDB PROMPT |
| AUTEM | HOWEVER | ? | 'autem' is (nearly) an anagram of 'tamen', so they mean the same thing however you rearrange the letters |
| ET....ET.... | BOTH....AND.... | ? | if you get two 'et's in a sentence, they don't both mean and |
NAM | FOR | ? | one pupil would remember this because when his family went to an Indian restaurant they always ordered 'for nam' breads (4 naan...)! |
| QUAMQUAM | ALTHOUGH | ? | another old pupil favourite: although ducks usually go ' quack quack', Latin ducks go 'Quam Quam'... |
| -QUE | AND | ? | usually remembered by examples: 'fish chipsque'; cheese onionque'... |