Latin Everyday

So my story starts out at the store earlier this week and I was paying for some chicken and waffles. When the lady gave me my change back I just took it and went on with my day. Well my family and I were on a road trip and I was bored as always. So I started looking at random things. When I picked up one of the quarters the lady gave back to me I noticed that it had latin written on it. On it says the same exact thing as on a dollar bill, E Pluribus Unum. This is interesting because I thought that phrase was only used on dollar bills and not other money too. This is how latin is used everyday.

Latin Everyday

I'm not sure if this counts but when we were talking about the Latin competition in the last few classes it was cool to look back the last two years when i went. I was cool that so many people in the area took Latin and how many different categories there are for entering. In the past I have done geography and the decathlon, which both of them were very interesting. While at the different events I was in a room with people as old as seniors, and I was only in 7th or 8th grade at the time of going to the event.

Caesar Salad

I was eating a salad one day and thought about why they’re called Caesar salads. Maybe Caesar had liked eating salads. This was not the case. It was named after an Italian chef. That being said, I thought of Caesar because we talk about him so much in class. It’s interesting that almost anything can be connected with Latin.

Motto HQ

Today I was playing the popular trivia game HQ. It is where you have to answer a number of questions to win money. On this game of HQ, one of the questions was What is the Marins Motto translated into English from Latin. Semper Fidelis, that means always faithful. I got the question wrong,  but that is beside the point. It is funny how latin keeps popping up in my daily life like maybe in a tv show, a football game, or even in this fun quiz game HQ. I hope more latin shows up in the coming days. 

Right now I am playing madden and it it’s late and I looked at my clock and it had Roman numerals. This reminds me of when I was in Rome and I saw Roman numerals on all the clock there. I love the way that I am able to connect Latin to so many different things. I also am counting my madden coins in Latin cause you know I know how to do that.

Indiana Jones

During this weekend my Grandma was watching TV, and an Indiana Jones marathon was on. All throughout the marathon, Indiana Jones travels to exotic places and is faced new adventures and ancient relics. Most of these ancient relics throughout the movies have inscriptions in Latin.  I do not remember any of the actual quotes, but one specific movie had lots of Latin in it. This movie was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The plot of the film is an art collector appeals to Indiana Jones to search for the holy grail. The legend of the holy grail is that the grail was said to be the cup of the Last Supper and at the crucifixion to have received blood coming from Jesus's head. Supposedly Joseph of Arimathea guards it. Indiana also learns that another archaeologist has disappeared while searching for the grail. The archaeologist that had disappeared was Dr. Henry Jones, Indiana Jones's father. They run through many trials with Nazis and trials within the cave that holds the cup. The last trial is to choose the correct cup from 50+ other cups, in multiple shapes and sizes. After you choose you test if it is the correct cup, by dipping it into a bowl of water and drinking from it. If you get the cup wrong, you die, if you get it right, you will have everlasting youth. I just thought that it was cool that Latin was used so much throughout these movies.

Latin Everyday

I was in physics and we were talking about what the “normal” force is. It is written as Fnormal. And on the worksheet that we read Fnormal meant that when the two surfaces touch together they create a perpendicular force from the surface. Knowing our class, we were all confused on exactly what that meant, so Mr. Brown said that normal comes from a Latin root. Norma means standard in Latin and that when two lines are perpendicular then they form a right angle. We still didn’t quite understand it, but after he told us where normal comes from I think we started to get it a lot more and because he connected it to a Latin root that for sure helped me understand it more than others I think. I can’t quite remember the exact words he said when he was referencing normal to Latin but I think that he meant that the latin meaning is kind of like a derivitive of normal actually meant in Physics.

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Latin HQ question

So tonight I was playing the trivia game HQ the one were you win money. On the third question, we were asked what the moto of the marines is. I immediately knew that it was Always faithful thanks to Latin. The host then went on to say that the original is Semper Fidelis. I then got out on the next question but latin still helped me in this game

Story Translation

In class a few weeks ago, we read and translated a latin story from Wheelock: Chapter 33. In the story, one of the armies is the Helvetians. A tribe that lived in ancient Gaul, which is now modern day France and Switzerland. Within Gaul, the tribe was from Helvetia, which is still used as a name for Switzerland. The word Helvetia is also found on modern day Swiss coins and postal stamps.

A Swiss postal stamp:

Latin Everyday

I am fascinated by Roman mythology and how it relates to the language of Latin. Cupid comes from the verb cupio, cupere, meaning to want. Cupid makes you want someone. This is all I could find on this subject, but that got me thinking. What all have we gotten from latin in our own religion, Christianity. Lucifer comes from the words "lux", meaning light and "ferre", meaning to bring. Lucifer means "to bring light", which makes sense because he is the morning star. It can also be seen as how he convinced Adam and Eve to consume the fruit of knowledge, so he brought them knowledge, bring light to the darkness of not knowing. He brought the light to a shadow mind, but he is not a good guy. 

Graffiti In Latin

Yesterday, I was walking to a Pizza Hut near my house, when I looked on the side of a building and saw some graffiti. This immediately reminded me of the presence of graffiti in our Latin class. It made me think about the different types of graffiti that we are learning about in our class, and how they were present in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. I also thought about how much different graffiti was back than, rather than today. Back then, graffiti was legal, and a lot different artistically.

Roman Numerals

I am reading the book Frankenstein in english class and each new chapter is labeled with the roman numerals. This goes to show that Roman life is still a part of our world today. It's cool to be able to be able to read what each number is when a lot of my friends can't.

Roman Nose

In the book "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens the character Pip describes another character as having a "Roman Nose." I found this interesting because , I did not know what a Roman nose was and I decided to look into it. Apparently, the Roman nose is a nose that hooks out further than others and is prominent in Russia. Apparently even Joseph Stalin had a Roman nose. 
 

I am Latin Man!

In the cinematic classic Iron Man 2 it is revealed that Black Widow knows Latin. She says something which roughly translates to “The appearance of things is deceptive.” Which makes sence because she’s a spy!

Latin Everyday

About a week ago in English class, while reading the first chapter of the Illiad we had to do a research assignment. We had to research what a seer's "second eye given by a god" was. Becuase of our Latin III class, I remembered that seers used augury to tell the future. This was one of the biggest times I have seen Roman culture in my everyday life.

Latin blog

I was watching a show where they went back into ancient Rome. This connects to Latin for obvious reasons.

Elephants

I was thinking about elephants the other day and how they are so cute and it reminded me about how Rome used elephants for war. War elephants were used in the wars between Carthage and Rome. War elephants were introduced by Epirus the greek king. Epirus brought 20 elephants to attack the romans in the Heraclea battle. It is really cool how random things can trace back to Rome. 

Latin Everyday

I was writing the Odyssey Essay for English I and I crossed paths with an event in the story known as in media res. I knew what all of these words meant individually, but together the meaning meant absolutely nothing to me in context with the event in the story. In media res means in the middle of things, which didn't make sense in the context of the story. Why start in the middle rather than the actual beginning. But the Latin seemed to be the only constant within the meaning of the word and its role within the Odyssey's storyline.

latin every day

Today I want to the diabetes doctor and I asked her how people knew they had diabetes In Ancient Egyptian/roman times, she told me that when someone peed, and ants were attracted to it, it meant they had sugar of their pee, which meant they had diabetes (*The Latin word for diabetes is diabete).

Latin Everyday

This is a story from Christmas break. My grandmother, who is a Roman Catholic, goes to a midnight sermon every Christmas Eve. If I happen to be unfortunate enough to arrive in time for this, she ends up taking me to it as well. This sermon is entirely in latin. While I'm sure it was spoken closer to how the Pope speaks latin, it was the last latin related thing I can remember.

In Star Wars, the main character, Luke, gets his name from the Latin word lux - meaning light. The antagonist Darth Vader gets his name from two German words. It loosely translates to Dark Father. This a good representation between the dark and the light in star wars.

1/23/18

I have been reading a book recently that has a sizable political part. It has a senate, a control like a person, and many other things that Roman Politics has. The Senate is separated kind of like the Roman senate as well. There are different types of senators, but these senators are treated all equally and one doesn't have preference over the others. One of the most pertinent parallels are the political parties. The old aristocracy is called the Optimates and the popular party is called the Vox Populares.

A Piece of Rome in New York City

As the holiday season is now starting to become a thing of the past, I still like to think about the trip that I took with my family over the holiday break to New York City. While in New York, along with seeing all the sights, I also saw many things that related to Roman culture! On my visit to historic Colombia's campus, I saw many things in and around their library that caught my eye as a Latin student.

This was on the front steps of Colombia's library (it was actually their old library. Now they only use it for graduations). It is slightly hard to read in the picture, but it says, "Over skilled watching, A reminder through the years". I thought that was really sweet because inside the library they have the faces of past classes' valedictorians,  so like those who are now 'skilled' watch the future as a reminder of what can be achieved and where they started. Very touching. 

Then when we got inside the library we were greeted by these statues. Immediately I recognized that the white statue was Minerva, which makes complete sense because she is the goddess of wisdom and you come to the library to become wise, a very nice touch. Minerva was in the center of a semicircle of others statues, one of them being Jupiter, who I took a picture with. 

All and all it was very interesting to the effects Roman culture has everywhere. What was even more fun was the feeling I got when spotting each little piece of Rome. I would point it out and tell my parents, it was almost like a scavenger hunt with my brother, who could find the next Roman thing the fastest! Anyways, I had a great trip and the Roman tidbits were fun finds that made it even more enjoyable. 

AHS

I'm watching the coven season of American Horror Story and in it, there are witches that perform spells and do so in Latin. One of them is: Jam tibi impero et praencipio maligne spiritus! Ut confestim allata et circulo discedas, absque omni laesione cujuscunque creaturae vel rei; et ad locum a justissimo, Deo tibi deputatum in momento et ictu oculi abeas.  Translating to: Now I command and charge you, O evil spirit! That you immediately depart from the circle, and if you refuse I will damn you both in body and soul. And abstain from harming any creature or thing, and depart immediately to the place which God´s justice has appointed for you. Depart from my sight and flee from here.

ancient roman law facts I found

So I was scrolling on my Instagram a couple of weeks ago and I had found a post that had listed a bunch of ancient roman law facts. As I read it, I found it to be more and more absurd and weird.
Here are the laws that was listed:

• If you call someone to witness and they refused to show up, you are legally entitled to stand outside their house and scream, but only every third day.
• You can sell your on into slavery once or twice, but after the third time he doesn't have to put up with it anymore.
• No wailing allowed at funerals
• Also you can only have one funeral per person
• If your neighbor's tree has a branch hanging into your yard, you can cut down the whole tree if you want.
• But, if some of the neighbor's fruit from the tree falls into your yard, he can legally come into your yard and get it.
• If you call someone to witness and they're too sick or old to get to court themselves, you have to provide a cart for them to come in, but it doesn't have to be, like, a nice cart if you don't want to.
• The penalty for writing a song slandering someone (it's very specific on the song bit) is getting clubbed to death.
• If you hurt someone (or if you just sort of inconvenience them) through magic arts, the penalty for that is also death.
• However if you maim someone's limb through a normal limb-maiming process you just sort of have to figure things out between yourselves.
• If there is a road right next to your property, feel free to build a fence around it to prevent people from driving into it, but if you don't build your own fence well then that's on you.

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Verbatim

I was having a conversation with someone and they said "verbatim" meaning in the same words. I recognized it from the m at the end thinking it was accusative and I also recognized the word meaning words "verbus". I looked it up and it was from latin and "words" was in the definition so I knew I was correct.

Caesar and The Senate

Julius Caesar rose to power by gaining political popularity and taking over the senate. In this way Caesar became the senate. He was the senate. Another person who has risen to power in this way is Sheev Palpatine. He gained political popularity and got elected Chancellor of the Galactic Senate. He then used his military power to murder all of his political opponents, the Jedi. Then he said "I am the Senate". In conclusion, Palpatine is exactly like Caesar.

Biology word "ana"

In biology, we were learning about cell respiration and how they get their energy. One of the terms we learned was anaerobic. Which means no oxygen. My teacher said that the stem "ana" came from Latin. I looked it up and it said it was neuter plural. I just thought it was cool to see some Latin words in other classes besides Latin.

Latin Moment #5: Passive Participle Website?

     I went to a website to research images for my English project, and the name "Legatum Institute" (especially that first word) looked latin enough for me to be interested. The word lego (from which this is derived) means "to read" (3rd conj.) or "to dispatch, send" (1st conj.). This participle is formed from the 1st conjugation meaning of lego, and it means "Having been sent". I found this just as a cool participle formed website? It might also come from legato, (it being the pl. genitive) which means "legacy". I think the second meaning is more likely, but it is still interesting that this word could mean a participle or a noun.

Banner of the Legatum Institute:

Latin Blog 1/23

We read a poem about January in English class yesterday.  My English teacher mentioned that Janus was the God that the word January came from.  Janus is a Roman name that I have heard before in Latin class.  It has to do with Roman history and I am also reminded that there only used to be ten months of the year (September, October, November, December-Sept-7, Oct-8, Nov-9, Dec-10).  Now they are the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth months of the year.  Janus is the Roman God of gates and doorways.  Janus has two faces.  One face looks to the past and the other looks to the future. 

Everyday Latin 1/18/17

My family has been planning our trip for the summer, and we will be in Switzerland. We will land in Rome and take the train there. I am very excited to explore Rome because of all the history and structures there. It will be really fun to see in person what we have learned about in Latin class, and I will be able to inform my family about what I've learned as well.