LATIN: Salve!

Welcome to the Latin forum

I've been nominated by Cill to teach this with Flisan, but oh well. However much I hate Latin I'll do my best!

I'll start with that word in the subject. Salve means greetings, or, more plainly, hello. Vale, on the other hand, means goodbye, or farewell.

Even though latin's a dead language, hopefully you can enjoy this!

Salvete magistra!

(see i remember!! Can I be your little helper Lisa x2s?! I got 2nd in yr 9 paper 96% - darn...shoulda taken latin!)

Ego sum WL!

(actually...i shouldn't offer to be little helper...that's all i know off the top of my head)

Heh. She said 'I am WL'. Little helper... *sigh* I'm gonna teach y'all how to count.

One - unus
Two - duo
Three - tres
Four - quattuor
Five - quinque
Six- sex (don't laugh....)
Seven- septem
Eight -octo
Nine - novem
Ten- decem

So there you go. You know how to count in Latin!

wow this is a dream come true ive always wanted to learn latin it was one of my all time dreams thank yopu so much elfie site.

Latin!! YES!!! I've always wanted to learn Latin!!! Oh my God, thank you, elfie!!!! I am sooooo excited!!! :cheers:

i found out by reading a book that Albus means white in latin

it does indeed, and did you know that peregrinus, -a, -um means strange? as in a stranger is coming to a town. ^^ so now we know where pippin's name came from

draco dormiens nunquam titillandus means never tickle a sleeping dragon.

i know ^^

Lol talk about a short post.... more learning!

Okay, hardish thing. Grammar in Latin is about as hard as trying to find a needle in a haystack... so it's not really that hard!!! There are many verbs in Latin, and each regular one carries the same ending with a different stem, depending on these things:

Whether it's active or passive (if the person is doing the verb or if it is being done to them)
The tense (present, perfect past, imperfect past etc. [will explain more later])
The person (I, you, he, she, it, we, you[plural], they)

Firstly, here's the present tense. Regular verbs take these endings:

I ......- ...o
You (singular) ....- ...s
He/She/It ....-...t
We.....-...mus
You (plural and polite).....-...tis
They....-...nt

I'll use the verb 'exspectare', to read, as an example.

I wait for - exspecto
You (sing) wait for - exspectas
He/She/It waits for - exspectat
We wait for - exspectamus
You (polite and pl.) wait for - expectatis
They wait for - exspectant

That enough for you to take in?? :D

that is very compiacted lol hurry up and put some more on plz lol i love latin and they dont teach it at y school

there are four conjugations of verbs:
o, are
e, ere
eo, ere
and io, ire

(and just in case you were thinking that was easy, wait for all the exceptions!)

each verb has four principle parts: the present stem, the infinative, the perfect stem and the supine.

E.g.
mando, mandare, mandavi, mandatus- to entrust, hand over

I'm going to totally ruin Swifty's tense talk and teach you all some words:

Canisdog
coquus cook
est is (conjugation of the verb esse but we won't worry about that)
filius son
hortus garden
in in, on; into, onto
labōrathe/she/it works (infinitive is laborāre)
māter mother
pater father
sedet he/she/it sits (infinite is sedēre)
servus* slave
via* street

*As you perceptive little people probably know, these words have vs in them. In Latin, "v"s are pronounced as "w" like the "w" in water.

Have you learned anything?
To prove that you have, why don't you translate and conjugate laborāre and sedēre in the present tense forms the loverly Swift taught you? Alright...and...TRANSLATE!

~Ginny

Ginny im in ur class, lol....
laborare: to work.
sedere: to sit
conjugations:
laboro laboramus
laboras laboratis
laborat laborant

sedo sedemus
sedes sedetis
sedet sedent


o, btw this site is AMAZING for latin.
http://www.cambridgescp.com/page.php?p=clc^top^home


Gryffindors rock my socks!

just one tiny little thing...the title is salve, but it should be Salvete because it is adressing people int he plural...and then the response would be salve magistra because it is only adressing a single person....

thats the one thing i've learned from latin and i'm in latin 3! h ahaha

Lol yeah I know Lifey...but I didn't start the thread-my mum did! XD

You crazy person Katie/Luna (that's Mionie...but call her Katie or Luna :P)

ātrium atrium; main room
bibit he/she/it drinks (infinitive is bibere)
cibus food
circumspectat he/she/it looks around (infinitive is circumspectāre)
clāmat he/she/it shouts (infinitive is clamāre)
culīna kitchen
exit he/she/it goes out (infinitive is exīre)
familia household
furcifer scoundrel
intrat he/she/it enters (infinitive is intrāre)
īrātus angry
lātrat he/she/it barks (infinitive is lātrāre)
mēnsa table
pestis pest
salit he/she/it leaps; he/she/it jumps (infinitive is salīre)
scrībit he/she/it writes (infinitive is scribere)
stat he/she/it stands (infinitive is stāre)
stertit he/she/it snores (infinitive is stertīre)
surgit he/she/it gets up; he/she/it rises (infinitive is surgere)
tablīnum study
triclīnium dining-room

And that's all the vocab for now. Let's see if you can translate the following sentences:

1. Caecilius est pater.

2. Metella est māter.

3. Quintus est filius.

4. Grumio est coquus.

5. Clēmens est servus.

6. Cerberus est canis.

I am NOT Luna...

anyway, I'm not going to translate the above sentences but i do have another amazing latin site....

WWW.CONJUGUEMOS.COM

ok, its not really a latin site, but it does have some really good grammar activities...

Come on people's translate!

(Katie check your mail!)

I did! and Ill translate one sentence to make you happy, lol
Grumio is the cook.


I miss grumio....

...very good Katie. Now to make me from going insane...someone translate the rest!! XD

Caecilius est pater

Ceacilius is my father

Metella est māter.

Metella is (my) mother

Quintus est filius.

Quintus is (my) son.

Clēmens est servus

Clemens is a slave

Cerberus est canis

Ceberus is a dog



now can you guys translate
:

Ille legatus solus, voce aliena ducis commotus, in itinere constitisse, et milites slios reliquisse dicitur.

hi , il ove latin .

DID YOU KNOW????

Dumbledore means bumble bee as JKR imagined hi wondering around the castle humming to his self!!

AG