Latin and french

While in OKC at a race i was hanging out with people while they were doing their homework. They left out some of their french homework which had not been translated yet. With my knowledge that French is a Romance Language and is based off of Latin I started to translate the passages on my own. I found common words like "is" and more importantly numbers. The numbers in french are based off of Latin numbers. For instance they have sept for seven and duex for two. Though my knowledge of Latin I was actually pretty close to the actual translation of French. 

English Class Book

In English, we have been reading and discussing the book Julius Caesar. One of its most famous lines, "et tu Brute", is actually in Latin. When Mr. Adcox asked who knew what it meant, I quickly rose my hand and said "and you Brutus", to which he was very pleased. I was also reminded of several events that we have discussed in Latin, which was odd to see. I am glad that I have been able to apply Latin to other classes in school.

Latin everyday

we recreated Latin strategies with swords and shields we created.

Natasha's Post

one day I was looking through a bag of coins my parents have that are really old and I came across a quarter and on the tails side there is a saying: "E Pluribus Unium". that is the moto for the United States and means "out of many, one". There is also a saying on the one pound.

Latin in Health

Yesterday in Health class, we were given an assignment by the name of Temet Nosce. Temet Nosce is latin for "know thyself". This was fitting to the assignment as we were given several tests to identify who we really were.

Latin Everyday

I was playing a videogame with a friend, and one guy who had been typing English the entire game suddenly switched over to Latin. It took us a moment to translate it, and it turns out he was just yelling in Latin. We were the only ones in the game able to translate what the guys said.

Jackson Blog post

My blog post is about the shield and sword Project. This project was so much fun. The new stuff I learned during the project was awesome. My favorite part of this project was the fight at the end of the project. I will remember the Eugene hitting me in the face with a pool noodle. Then me hitting me in the face with my sword. Then my sword breaking, that was sad :(. I loved this project because was my first real hand's on project of the year. Thank you, Dr. Morgan, for making this project amazing.

Latin Everyday - Welton

In English this tri, we have been reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Although I despise Shakespeare's style, the play obviously has a couple roots in Latin/Rome. Perhaps the thing I've found most surprising is the willingness to kill the most powerful man in a country. Cassius, Casca, and Brutus seem to have no problem with an assassination. The play Julius Caesar probably isn't a great look into Roman life, but it does give some insight on how the Plebeians viewed Caesar, which I found interesting. 

Latin Everyday

I was in latin class and we were talking about all of the different zodiac signs and who was which sign. After we all shared about ours and how interesting they are, Dr.Morgan said that all of the signs are in latin or at least come from latin. I later looked them up and realized she was right and I thought it was very interesting that I know what they are but I didn't realize that they were in latin.  All of them are named after latin animals and I knew them before I just didn't realized. I thought this was really cool!

lizzie

Sine Qua Non

My history teacher was explaining a concept to us and he used the phrase "sine qua non", which I immediately recognized as Latin. I knew that "sine" meant "without" and qua was a relative pronoun in the ablative case, meaning "which". He explain to all of the non-Latin speakers that the phrase meant "without which, not" meaning that without one thing, another would not be possible, like a cause and effect.

Blog Post 5/4 Ovid, Julius Caesar, and Chemistry

In Latin write now, we are translating poetry and it is difficult to interpret from the translation what is going on because it is a complicated topic and it uses poetic language that is difficult to understand.  The same thing is happening in English when we are reading Julius Caesar which contains language that is difficult to understand.  Shakespeare uses unique words but he puts the definitions to those unique words on the left pages in the book.  There are also a lot of names that end in "us" like Brutus, Cassius, Lucilius, etc.  We also learned the word for golden which is aureus.  Au is the symbol on the periodic table which is gold. 

What's your sign?

This question is not referring to traffic signs. It is referring to Latin Zodiac signs. Mine is Aquarius. I have been hearing about Zodiac signs for as long as I can remember. But I just recently found out that Zodiac signs are Latin. There are twelve although some people believe there are thirteen. Now when any one ask me what's my sign, I will immediately think of Latin and the how the Zodiac signs relate to Latin.

Icarus in Godzilla

Last weekend, I was watching Godzilla Final Wars in the living room, when a certain scene came up that reminded me of the Icarus story we learned in class. Mothra, a flying monster, got her wing cut off by Gigan, and she fell to her death. This reminded me of the story we learned in Latin class where Icarus flew too close to the sun. Due to this, the wax softened causing Icarus's wings to bind. This led him to fall to his death.

Memento Mori Part 2

A few weekends ago I was watching the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, with my sister when we came across an episode that was filled with a Latin phrase that I had known. I had actually had already done a blog post on it, which is why I called this Part 2. The phrase is Memento Mori (Latin for "Remember You Will Die") and it is Prufrock Preparatory School's motto, which the kids go to for a while. This is mentioned multiple times throughout both the book and the episode. I had read a few of the books, and my sister recommended the Netflix show. Here is a synopsis of the series: A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen children's novels by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of American author Daniel Handler. The books follow the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. After their parents' death in a fire, the children are placed in the custody of a murderous relative, Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance and, later, orchestrates numerous disasters with the help of his accomplices as the children attempt to flee. As the plot progresses, the Baudelaires gradually confront further mysteries surrounding their family and deep conspiracies involving a secret society known as V.F.D., with connections to both Olaf and their parents. The series is narrated by Snicket, who dedicates each of his works to his deceased love interest, Beatrice, and often attempts to dissuade the reader from reading the Baudelaires' story.


The book/episode that has the Latin in it begins with the Baudelaire orphans and Mr. Poe on the grounds of Prufrock Preparatory School. The Baudelaires are introduced to life at Prufrock Preparatory School, an unpleasant institution run by an unpleasant vice-principal named Nero and terrorized by an equally unpleasant student named Carmelita Spats. The school's only redeeming qualities are its friendly librarian, Olivia Caliban, and the surviving Quagmire triplets, Duncan and Isadora. During a lunch break, Klaus and Isadora discover that they are holding two halves of the same spyglass. The newfound friends quickly realize that they must track down a book on secret organizations to find the answers they seek—a book Jacquelyn sent Larry to give them, but which he carelessly misplaced. Meanwhile, Count Olaf and his troupe lurk around the grounds of the school, unable to enter the front doors due to an advanced computer system programmed by Nero to detect Olaf's presence. However, with Carmelita's help, Olaf finally gains entry and locks Larry in the cafeteria's walk-in refrigerator. He then dons his latest disguise: the school's new turban-wearing gym teacher. Olaf is able to convince Nero to put the Baudelaires under a grueling exercise program, making the siblings run endless laps at night to prevent them from scheming against him, while also causing them to perform poorly in class from lack of sleep. Due to their slumping grades, Nero threatens to expel the Baudelaires if they fail a comprehensive exam to be given in front of the entire school, but because they must still exercise under Olaf's program, they know they will likely fail. The Quagmires offer to help, and that night take their place during exercises; however, their identity is discovered, and while hiding in the library, they find the copy of the book on secret organizations and read up on the purpose of the spyglass before they are caught by the Hook-Handed Man. The next day, with Mr. Poe in attendance, the Baudelaires readily pass the exam, and through it reveal Olaf's identity. Olaf and his gang then escape with the Quagmires, who try to shout the initials "V.F.D." from the backseat of Olaf's car. Meanwhile, Larry is rescued from the refrigerator with the help of Lemony's brother, Jacques, while Olivia walks off with the book on secret organizations that the Quagmires left behind.


Also, Vice Principal Nero is a reference to Emperor Nero, a Roman Emperor whose reign is often associated with tyranny and greed. Emperor Nero was also famous for forcing many of his subjects to sit through extended theatrical pieces created and performed by himself. This is reflected in Vice Principal Nero's awful violin recitals.

Top Gear and Roman Numerals

Last night I was watching one of my favorite car shows Top Gear. They were doing the news segment on their show and they mentioned how at the end of every show they have a card that shows the year in Roman numerals. The reason they brought this up on this particular show was because someone messed up and made the roman numerals a 100 years in the future. So they were the on show on the BBC from the future. This obviously reminded me of latin and roman numerals as they can be very hard to read.
 
this is an example of that screen. the number is at the bottom

my sister's birthday party, also vomitoriums

My little sister recently had a birthday party with a Harry Potter theme. I was not there, but I have been relayed information about it. In one of the games the guests played, they used spells from Harry Potter that have incantations derived from Latin. One of the ones used was "accio". It is a spell that summons an object to the user from across a room. In Latin, the word literally means "I summon". On an unrelated note, I found out that the Roman Vomitorium is not a room in which people are to vomit. It is just a door to the Colosseum that people spew out of when the games conclude.

Cancer - Zodiac Signs

The word cancer means "crab" in Latin. This relates to mythology. Most myths in Roman and Greek mythology say that there was a large crab who was crushed by Hercules. The goddess Juno felt sympathetic and put the crab in the sky as the constellation Cancer.

Roman Reno

This past weekend I was in Reno for a volleyball tournament. On our drive for some celebratory ice cream after winning the tournament, we drove past a hotel called the Peppermill that had Roman columns on the front of the hotel. Obviously they were just poorly done replicas, but the many different styles of the columns reminded me about a unit we did in the 7th grade over Roman architecture. From Mr. Stewart we learned the three main types of Roman column styles: doric, ionic, and corinth, all of which where from different time periods. I realized that the hotel had all 3 types of columns. It's funny to think about all of the little historical inaccuracies we make all the time, even the ones that don't seem as big of a deal, like having three different types of Roman columns from different eras on the outside of a Reno casino. Its also fun to see that even in Reno for a volleyball tournament, I am always using my Latin skills!

Astrology

Aries, 

Taurus, 

Gemini, 

Cancer, 

Leo, 

Virgo, 

Libra, 

Scorpio,

Sagittarius, 

Capricorn, 

Aquarius, and 

Pisces all represent different symbols of astrology. These symbols each represent their own month-long time period and have their own corresponding Latin meanings. For instance, Gemini is Latin for twins and Leo is the word for Lion. People who practice astrology look to the placement of the starts for answers and believe it affects people's behavior depending on their sign. The first astrologists would probably be the oracles of ancient Greece. 

Latin everyday

Around a week ago, I went to the department of public safety to get my permit. When I was waiting for like five hours, I thought, how did Romans know if other Romans were citizens or not? I asked Dr. Morgan and she said that Roman officials would wear tunics to signify their citizenship. I found this very interesting because nowadays we have social security numbers, drivers licences, and countless other ways we can identify ourselfs as Americans compared to just wearing a different type of clothing.

Aquarius Constellation

Aquarius is a Zodiac constellation, if born between January 20 to February 18 your zodiac is Aquarius. Aquarius is latin for water carrier or water pourer. Aquarius is represented as Ea the Sumerian god of water, but in Greek tradition Aquarius is represented as Ganymedes, a beautiful boy that was Zeus's cup bearer.
 I own this little book that describes the different Zodiacs and what they represent, for instance their element, animal, lucky number, esc. For Zodiac the element is air, its animal is a fox, the body part it governs is clave, shins and ankles. Its ruling plant is Uranus, the lucky number is 1,2, and 4, lucky color is blue, gray, orange, and pink. Lucky gem is Garnet, opal, sapphire, and turquoise. Lucky flower is foxglove and snowdrop, lucky day is Saturday. Just from studying the stars people have learned so many things about people and so many things about the world. The Zodiac constellation is about so much then the stars it is about history and about people in general and it is really cool to learn about those things just from the stars 

Aladdin

So I was watching Aladdin for the first time with my friend last weekend. During one part of the movie, the genie was trying to figure out how to transform Aladdin into to a prince. So he pulls out this book that said "royal recipes" and starting to pull things out of it. First, he pulled out the crab from the Little Mermaid. Then he proceeded to pull out an arm with a dagger and then magically, the genie was wearing a white toga. The genie said "Et tu, Brute?" This was a reference to the stabbing of Julius Caesar.

Miles Blog post

After reading the Icarus story, seeing that it mentioned constellations, it made me remember a time in middle school when I studied constellations. When I studied constellations in middle school, I was learning about the names and stories of the constellations most of which came from roman and greek culture. Constellations like Scorpius and Orion came from roman and greek culture. This is the way that I see latin in every day life.

Harry Potter

I was recently watching Harry Potter and noticed that many of the spells are words that are similar to Latin and have similar meanings. One of these is the spell "accio" that is used to bring things to the wizard; a summoning spell, just like it's meaning in Latin.

E tu, Brute?

Earlier this week in English we were discussing the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and we read over the phrase "E tu, Brute?" that Caesar says as he is killed by Brutus and the other conspirators. This phrase made me think of Latin and I wanted to know what this quite translated to, so I translated it and got: "Even you, Brutus?"

Uncharted Roman Territory

In the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Great game would recommend) the titular character Nathan Drake has a ancestor, Sir Francis Drake, with a great fortune. His motto which comes up numerously is “Sic Parvis Magna” a.k.a “Greatness from small beginnings.”

HAMILTON

So in English and History for Junior year we are reading Hamilton. By far the best unit!!! In one of the songs during the play called Burn. Which is a very good song about Eliza (hamilton's wife) burning all of his letters to her because she found out he had an affair. One of the lines in the song was "You have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun." We know what that line is referring to because we just read about Icarus. In the story, Icarus is given wings and his father warns him not to go to high or too low and stay in the middle course. Well, Icarus doesn't listen to his father. So in Hamilton, Hamilton doesn't listen and he basically ruins his life just like Icarus.

Latin Everyday 5/4

I was watching Infinity Wars the other day and I was thinking about the heroes' alter egos. I was contemplating each and every one when I realized that alter ego is a Latin phrase. I realized it means "other self" which is what an alter ego is, making me question the other elusive Latin phrases and references that became loan words/phrases for daily use in English, especially for such a trivial purpose.