Stage 17 ALEXANDRIA - Egypt

I can…

·  translate a passage using Stages 1-17 vocabulary

·  give English derivatives of Stage 17 vocabulary

·  correctly pronounce words in Stage 17

·  make a relative pronoun agree with its antecedent in number and

gender.

·  decline and translate nouns in 1st, 2nd, and, 3rd declensions.

·  form and translate nouns in the genitive case.

·  use the question words -ne, nōnne, and num.

·  answer questions about the characters in Stage 17

·  describe Alexandria and tell why the city was significant

Alexandria

Alexander the Great

Pharos

Aristarchus (270 BC)

Cleopatra

The Great Library

Euclid (290 BC)

Eratosthenes (240 BC)

Stage 17 - Alexandrīa
Latin Word / English Meaning / Derivatives
ā, ab (+ ablative)
animus, animī, m.
appropinquō, appropinquāre, appropinquāvī
ara, arae, f.
bene
benignus, benigna, benignum
diū
faber, fabrī, m.
facilis, facilis, facile
graviter
hūc
īnsula, īnsulae, f.
invītus, invīta, invītum
itaque
maximus, maxima, maximum
negōtium, negōtiī, n.
numquam
paucī, paucae, pauca
perveniō, pervenīre, pervēnī
quondam
recipiō, recipere, recēpī
resistō, resistere, restitī (+ dative)

The Genitive Case:

The genitive case expresses possession and is often translated with the preposition “of”.

The genitive singular form of a noun tells you to what declension that noun belongs. (e.g. -ae = 1st declension, -ī = 2nd declension, -is = 3rd declension)

The genitive is also used to determine the base of a noun or what you will add the other case endings to in order to form the other cases. (e.g. the genitive of servus is servī, minus the ī genitive ending gives the base serv- to which you add all the other ending). This is most important for 3rd declension noun like pāvō, pāvōni s, or urbs, urbis.

From this stage on the vocabulary checklists will give nouns with their nominative and genitive singulars as they are given in the glossary.

1st Declension
feminine
sing. pl. / 2nd Declension
masculine neuter / 3rd Declension
masculine/feminine
sing. pl.
sing. pl. / sing. pl.
Nominative -a -ae / -us -ī / -um -a / --- -ēs
Genitive -ae -ārum / -ī -ōrum / -ī -ōrum / -is -um
Dative -ae -īs
Accusative -am -ās
Ablative -ā -īs / -ō -īs
-um -ōs
-ō -īs / -ō -īs
-um -a
-ō -īs / -ī -ibus
-em -ēs
-e -ibus

Truism:

1. Explain more fully what is meant by this truism?