Latin Everyday #3

Over the weekend, I was with some friends from out of town and we decided to play a board game. This board game's name was Dixit. Dixit of course means in latin "it said". Knowing this latin vocabulary word, it gave the board game a whole other meaning, because in the board game you only got to say one word each turn. The name of the game was also the rules, which I think is very clever and knowing the vocabulary made the game even more enjoyable.

Latin Everyday 1

I was in the car the other day with my mom, and she brought up a Latin word. I told her that I knew the word but that I was trying to think of exactly what it meant. We put our heads together and I was able to remember what it meant. I don’t remember the word exactly, but I’m pretty sure it was vici, which means to conquer. I remember feeling glad that I had come across a Latin term outside of just talking about Latin class with my family.

Latin Word

     When we were going over the syllabus in world history on the second day of school, one of the things we were discussing was classroom decorum.  Decorum means behavior and it reminds me of other Latin words because it ends in "um."  That ending is used for neuter words.  It is also used for accusative singular in second declension as well as genitive plural in third declension.  Those who have good classroom decorum learn well so they become well-educated and are able to get into a good college.

Latin in Math by Jackson Harris

While i was doing my math homework we had to watch videos over colinear and nonlinear planes. This got me thinking about co and non. Co means with and Non mean with out. This means that a point on a line shares a line with another point. Non means the exact opposite. This is how I found latin in everyday life.

Latin Everyday

Last week I had my regular cleaning at the dentist. I was not happy about it but then I started doing some thinking. I looked up the word dentist and I realized that the word is actually Latin. I found that very interesting because my mom is a dental assistant and she works in a dental office all the time. At the same time I wasn't surprised because dentistry is a type of medicine and a lot of words in medicine are Latin. I overall found it very cool to see all the different things that have latin in or on them around me.

Everyday Latin

Over the weekend I watched the movie Gladiator. The movie is about when Commodus takes power and strips ranks from Maximus, who just so happens to be a general and predecessor of his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus is then commended to fight to the death in the gladiator arenas. The movie is based on  true story from Roman history. Although Maximus is a made up character, Aurelius and and Commodus are not. This movie was just one way Roman history has shown up in my life. Gladiator fights were a big part of Roman life. Although a majority of the time, the fights didn't end in death till later in Roman history, it did happen. Mainly it was just a show for the people to watch. This was one of the earliest forms of sports in early roman history. Roman history shows itself all around me daily, I just never noticed it until I started taking Latin.

Everyday Latin

Last Saturday, I was watching The Evil Dead and noticed the main characters reading in Latin. The teens find a book called the Necronomicon, also called Naturom Demonto, meaning book of the dead. There is also a fake Latin phrase that was made up as a way to destroy the book when said. The phrase is, "Klaatu barada nikto."

Latin Everyday

Today, video games are a large and growing culture, and with that many little easter eggs and references can be made. One example of this is in the popular team based shooter Overwatch. The character Doomfist has an emote, in which he is making a thumbs up, holding it sideways, and dangling it on the cusp of thumb down and thumb up, which he ends up going thumb down. This is a reference to gladiator fights where the Emperor would decide the fate of the combatants.

Another one is in another video game, though old, The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. In this game you eventually come upon an arena which you can enter and fight other gladiators surrounded by cheering fans until you gain the title, Grand Champion.

Carpe Diem

In the middle of a conversation I heard the phrase "carpe diem" which means "to seize the day". I was talking to my mom about procrastination and she told me to seize the day, meaning to make the most of my time. I knew the word "diem" meant day and was in the accusative case. I also knew the word "carpe" came from the verb "carpo" which means to seize. I put the words together and figured out the meaning. I plan to use this phrase in everyday life from now on.

Over the weekend some of my friends I went to mi cocina for dinner. We were all talking about spanish because its a spanish themed restaurant. They were saying how they take spanish and I told them all about latin. They thought it was very interesting when I told them about all the romance languages that come from latin. They were surprised when english was not one of them. This was a very cool latin experience.

Latin Everyday

I was driving around with my family earlier this weekend going to my sister's soccer game when I saw a court house out the window. When I saw the pillars outside it reminded me of Latin and how the Roman architecture that was popular so long ago is still popular today. It also reminded me about our Latin Every day blog and decided to share my experience.

Latin Everyday

There is a game I, and many others play called Over Watch. I personally love this game and its graphical design, and one of the maps you play on is called, Illios. Illios is in fact a real place, and it is very breath taking, But i'm going to focus on one sub map in particular.  This sub-map is called Illios, Ruins, and heavily derives from the architecture of Greece and Rome and its famous pillar based architecture.  Most of this map is made out of marble or stone and it even has a statue of a goddess in the middle. This goddess is most likely Diana.

Latin Everyday - OUAT

While watching the TV show Once Upon a Time, the word magister appeared over the doorway of a mayor's office. Magister means teacher, which I think means that the mayor is there to explain and teach the community how things work. The mayor is the Evil Queen, so it could also mean that she is the leader and power, just as a teacher is in a classroom.

Roman Architecture

This weekend I went down town to get my passport renewed and I saw roman Architecture  on a lot of the buildings there. The building I went in had a lot in particular though. It had large roman columns and was made out of what looked like white marble.

Latin everyday

So it was my birthday this weekend and I got a letter from my grandma. The letter had a picture of a dog on it. This reminded me of how the last Latin class we had, we talked about the wolf that took care of Romulus and Remus, and also how the Romans also had dogs.

Latin Everyday

Recently I have been playing a video game called Subnautica. 'Subnautica' loosely translates to 'below the sea', 'sub' meaning below and 'nautica' having to do with sailors and navigation on the sea. The translation fits the game as it is mostly based under the sea. 'Sub' in this phrase is used as an ablative of 'place where'.

My Latin Moment-Austin

This weekend I wore a T-shirt that my grand mother got in Rome. Over the summer she took a cruise to Italy and went to Monaco and Rome. She came back with a few souvenirs one of which was my T-shirt. But it doesn't only remind me of Latin because it comes from Italy but it says Veni Vidi Vici. Which means I came, I saw, I concurred.

Paris Map

In our house, we have a map of Paris that tells you all of the different sites in the city. At the top and on the sides there is Latin that tells you about the "people of the city". First, on the sides of the map, there are pictures that have captions with the different names of the people. For instance, it has "Rex/Regina Galliae" which translates to "King/Queen of France" There are a few more of these depicting the Nobles, Plebians, and Farmers of France. There is also a title at the top of the Map saying: " LUTETIA PARISORUM URBES, TOTO ORBE CELEBERRIMA NOTISSIMAQUE, CAPUT REGNI FRANCIA" which translates to: " The City of Paris,  famous to us and the entire world, head of the King of France". Relics of the past are all around us that keep Latin alive.

My latin Experience - Nik

The other day I was assigned Edgar Allan Poe to read for English 1. In the Short Story (Spoiler Alert) the main character kills his another man and, at the end, exclaims "In Pace requiescat!."This phrase translates to "May he rest in peace."I found it interesting that Edgar Allan Poe knew some Latin and then it dawned on me. A persons writing capability is exponentially increased with a basic comprehension of latin and it can be a great advantage to know the roots of the English language.

Old Parkland Hospital

About a week ago on my way to school I saw a building and it was the Old Parkland Hospital downtown. I noticed it had a few words on it, so the next day I decided to look harder. On one side of the building it read "Novus Ordo Seclorum" which means new order of the ages. On the other side it read "MDCCCXCIV" which is 1894 and "MMXIV" which is 2014. This shows that I pass by latin references everyday that I don't normally see.

Crucifixion

I went to church and remembered that the Romans crucified people for committing crimes. Crucifixion is when someone is nailed by their hands and feet to a giant wooden cross. They are left there until they die. The reason that going to church reminded me of this is that Jesus was crucified as well as many of his followers. After the crucifixion of Jesus, the cross was turned form a symbol of execution to a symbol of religion.

Latin Words

On Friday I had went to the first varsity football game. During my time there, I had bought a couple of shirts and other things like food, drinks, etc. I had received some change and as sat their counting the money, I remembered there is a ton of latin on the U.S dollar. The first phrase, which is on the top of the pyramid, is Annuit Coeptis which mean "He approves of our undertakings." The next phrase is Novus Ordo Serclorum which means "a new order of the ages".  The last latin phrase I saw is E Pluribus Unum which mean "one out of many". This shows how long Latin dates back and how it is still used in everyday life like currency. 

I was reading about regions in my global cultures class, and I cam across a word that I was unfamiliar with so I looked it up. The word was homogeneous, and it means of the same kind or essentially alike. Later I was talking to my advisor about it, who is also the latin teacher, and she said that she thought that that word comes from a latin root. I later looked the word up again and found out that homogeneous comes from medieval latin. After learning about how this word relates to latin I learned that things I learn in different subjects relate back to latin. I think that knowing that homogeneous comes from a latin root it helps me to understand the word more fully. Learning latin will help me in the future when I have questions about vocabulary.

Rick and Morty Latin Moment

         So, a couple of days ago I was just sitting on the couch re-watching the first episode of Rick and Morty, when I hear Rick say "Listen, Jerry. I-I-I don't want to overstep my bounds or anything. It's your house. It's your world. You're a real Julius Caesar but I'll tell you something..." This, to me, was an interesting reference to the last roman consul, Julius Caesar. Caesar was seen as arrogant, strong, and cocky at some points in his life, which, in the end, led him to being stabbed by the senate of Rome. When Rick calls Jerry "a real Julius Caesar", he is trying to say that Jerry is arrogant like Caesar and isn't accepting of Rick. This was a genius way to describe Rick and Jerry's relationship by the writers of the show, and was a hard-to-find Latin reference.
--Will Baschab

Retreat Words

One of the activities we had to do during retreat was to have reflection time for 15 minutes. One of the things Mr. Vallejo talked to us about what about the five "P's" he goes by. One of the "P's" he talked about was prepare. He told us to prepare for anything. He was telling us that "pre" comes from latin that means before. I just thought that was cool because some of the basic words we know comes from Latin.

My Latin Everyday Experience

I've always been fascinated by dinosaurs, but one thing stuck out to me. The names of dinosaurs are fantastic, and can really tell you what the dinosaur probably did. Look at the velociraptor, its name coming from the latin words "vēlōx", meaning speed, and "rapere", meaning grab hold of, or seize. This means that "velociraptor" means "speedy thief". And look at another good one, the avimimus, a small bird-like maniraptoran. It's name coms from the latin words "Avis", meaning bird, and "mimus", meaning mimic. Latin is everywhere, even when you look at times before latin. 

One Latin thing I have come across in the real world is "Illum Lutum Amamus" We use this saying at camp before we jump into a mud pit. It is on the back of one of my tee shirts and when I was wearing it I was reminded of this.

Latin Everyday

Yesterday I was reading a book and the main character of the book, Wade, is a highschool student who also takes Latin. While in class, Wade's teacher has him conjugate the verb "to learn" or discere. I found this really funny because we had just had a quiz over chapter 40 vocabulary and that was one of the words we studied. Before the character even said the latin I already knew what "to learn" was in latin. Another fun little latin moment I had was when I was watching Dead Poets Society  a couple days ago, and one of the scenes was a latin classroom with the students saying their declensions. It reminded me of our class with us going over and over and over all the endings. On the blackboard in this scene was also latin nouns and verbs, and even though it went by quickly, I recognized/translated the principle parts of amo, "to love". Though latin is a dead language, it still is very prevalent in our culture, particularly books and movies, which is fun because it adds a whole other layer of meaning to the scene that you are reading or watching if you have studied latin.

Latin Everyday

So, a few days ago I was reading my Global Cultures textbook when I came across two phrases with Latin origin, "i.e." and "e.g.". When seeing these phrases, I immediately remembered the day Mr. Stewart taught us Latin Mottoes and how in English, Latin mottoes are used to convey something unrecognizable to English culture. Anyway, I thought this was cool and how it really made me think about Latin before high school. I hope to correlate more events in my life and to Latin and the relationship they share.

Yesterday, I was out and about in the mall with my friends when I peered into the window seeing a humongous figure of a knight that looked like a gladiator in the window. I had a flashback in my head to when Mr. Dopico and our class talked about gladiators, and how they fought and all about them. We learned why they fought, how they were forced to fight, how often they died, and how they were praised. I also remembered when our class and Dr. Morgan talked about gladiators too. I remembered how she talked about if you were a good gladiator and got beat, the crowd would spear you from death, but if you were a bad gladiator and died, it wasn't going to go to well for you. This figure refreshed my memory on our study on Gladiators while we were in Latin II and III.

In World History Honors there was a video that used latin for the scientific names of the plague. The video was a parody of Hollerback girl by Gwen Stefani. The main chorus for the song was oh, fleas on rats. The video showed many pieces of art that had skeletons on it. The Skeletons in the video also said mortuus which means dead. It was really cool to see latin in another subject we were studying.

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Latin Everyday
9/5/17

I was honestly really surprised when I realized how much of latin is in my everyday life. Such as buildings, words, and even TV shows. So my latin experience comes from these two TV shows that I watch, The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural, both of them involve latin words in them. Usually when they summon something or do a “magical spell” it is usually in latin. I find that really cool because a lot of the times I can actually translate what they are saying, or at least I try to.

Ocean's Caesar

I was recently watching Ocean's Eleven (2001), and early on there is a scene where one of the characters descibes previous Las Vegas robberies. The last one he describes is a man who robs Ceasar's Palace. The police stop the thief as he reaches the parking lot and the narrator says, "He came; he grabbed; they conquered."  I thought this was hilarious because it's a adaptation of the famous Caesar quote: Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered). So appropriate since it was Caesar's casino being robbed!
--Dr. Morgan