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Latin Words #2

Can you translate these common Latin words into English?
All the answers are a single word
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Last updated: December 13, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 13, 2013
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Latin
English
Aqua
Water
Canis
Dog
Terra
Earth
Centum
Hundred
Aurum
Gold
Somnus
Sleep
Latin
English
Ante
Before
Urbs
City
Equus
Horse
Magnus
Great
Dulcis
Sweet
Vita
Life
Latin
English
Vox
Voice
Pectus
Chest
Primus
First
Pater
Father
Crux
Cross
Hibernum
Winter
Latin
English
Dexter
Right
Sal
Salt
Oculus
Eye
Opus
Work
Piscis
Fish
Septem
Seven
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Level 53
Jan 4, 2014
Never studied Latin so 18 ain't bad.
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Level 59
Jan 6, 2014
Nice, dude!
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Level 60
Sep 9, 2021
I took four years of latin and only got 17 lmao
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Level 61
Jan 6, 2014
Most of these made sense after I gave up.
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Level 19
Aug 25, 2016
Same!
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Level 70
May 20, 2019
Whereas I look at the majority of the answers I missed and, in retrospect, can totally see why they mean what they do.
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Level 67
Jan 7, 2014
In latin, ambidextrous (with reference to "dexter") means "right-handed on both sides" (the prefix ambi meaning "both", e.g., ambiguous or ambivalent).

I learn something new everyday here...and I thought I was just killing time.

"I don't mind coming into work at 9AM, but this 8 hour wait to go home is just bull$hit!"

- Homer (Simpson)

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Level 84
Nov 21, 2015
If only that applied to someone "sinister" like me!
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Level 71
Aug 25, 2016
Nickname 'Lefty'
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2018
Most people wouldnt get your reference I think, but I did, plus one for you :)
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Level 86
Mar 4, 2014
Not hard when you speak french :p. It took me a while to find "work" though.
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Level 67
Mar 15, 2014
Yeah, much easier as a French-speaker, I recon, since those roots are close toour modern words. Still managed to miss work and city though. *facepalm*
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Level 41
May 13, 2014
The word "hibernum" does not mean "winter" in Latin. In fact, there is no such noun, even though the adjective "hibernus, a, um", means "wintery", or "related to winter", potentially "freezing". "Winter" is "hiems".
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2018
According to wikipedia it does.

Apparently hiems works too, on that page hibernum is listed as synonym, but hibernum has it own page aswell were it says it means winter.

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Level 77
Aug 25, 2016
There must be some sort of a math error in September.
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Level 84
Aug 25, 2016
Because its the ninth month? Long story short: In Ancient Rome March was the first month, so September was indeed the seventh month, October the eighth, November the ninth and December the tenth.
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Level 60
Aug 25, 2016
Fault of the Caeasars, that one.
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Level 91
Aug 25, 2016
I learned something different. January being first month, december being last when there were only 10 months. 2 months were added by Roman emperors, July for Julius and August for Augustus, thus throwing all future months off.
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Level 67
Aug 25, 2016
Yes, and the months were added so that Julius Caesar would be born in the seventh month, because seven was lucky. Hence the reason the seventh month is called "July" (from "Julius").
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Level 37
Nov 21, 2017
Yes. I figured that out in High School Latin. I would love to have a ten month year!
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Level 76
Jun 9, 2019
And the second part of the story I believe was that Augustus was jealous of Caesar having a month named after him, so he created one named after himself as well. Hence, August.
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Level 57
Aug 25, 2016
Molly Barnes, my high school Latin teacher in 1960-62, would be astounded - 21/24. Even beats my 40% pass in GCE O levels!
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Level 57
Aug 25, 2016
Nice quiz, for an italian like me it is very easy traslate latin words to english. When I was a young student I have studied latin for seven years
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Level 45
Aug 25, 2016
Maybe you should now try English :)
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Level 43
Aug 25, 2016
Since he's writing in english, he obviously has. Why are you being so rude?
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Level 22
Aug 25, 2016
Yeah he knows three languages. That's pretty impressive.
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Level 37
Nov 21, 2017
To Srumpyone: Stop being so bloody nasty. I would like to see you master Italian as well as s/he has English!
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Level 48
Oct 25, 2018
agree with the others, you are just being obnoxious
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Level 45
Aug 18, 2019
That's cool! I learn Latin at school, speak English too and German and Mandarin. I sadly can't speak or understand Italian but I think it is a very beautiful language... :)
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Level 82
Aug 25, 2016
Oh come on.. I typed in "one hundred" but missed centum.
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Level ∞
Aug 25, 2016
"One Hundred" will work now even though it's not a single word.
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Level 44
Aug 25, 2016
Got three answers wrong even though I studied Latin for 5 years in High School... Guess I should have payed more attention in class :)
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Level 22
Aug 25, 2016
Is that where they got the word "Avox" from hunger games? From Vox? I guess it makes sense.
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Level 67
Aug 25, 2016
Never read the Hunger Games, but Games of Thrones and Harry Potter use Latin for a ton of their made-up terms, so I imagine Hunger Games probably does the same.
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Level 56
Aug 29, 2016
That is correct. The prefix "a-" in Latin means "without." And avox is "without a voice."
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Level 60
Sep 6, 2016
Didn't avoxes actually exist in ancient Rome? I think they were people punished for rebelling and made to be servants. They had their tongues cut off so they could never incite a rebellion again. I may be wrong about this.
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Level 57
Aug 26, 2016
Scrumpyone, for your information many years ago I have studied english and ancient greek for five years, latin for seven and, of course, italian for thirteen. Cheers.
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Level 41
Jul 13, 2023
And you have not made peace with being corrected in your language skills? Scrumpyone did you no wrong.
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Level 22
Aug 27, 2016
18/24. Really pissed at myself for not getting aurum and hibernum.
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Level 61
Aug 28, 2016
History buff plus having attended Catholic school for eight years=almost all correct. Yay!
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Level 51
Nov 18, 2016
Liked it, good quiz, more please
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Level 66
Jan 3, 2017
Quiz magna. Ego tamen non nimis magno quiz! (Insert Latinae, hic risu os)
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Level 94
Oct 6, 2018
I answered "sugar" for dulcis.
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2018
Got al but pectis with 2:30 left.

I was in the right direction. Tried muscle, abs abdomen.

Also reminded me of something sticky (pectine I realised near the end) so tried glue jelly jello jam

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Level 88
Dec 8, 2018
Can't believe gold is the only one I didn't get dexter.
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Level 65
Jun 9, 2019
not that kind of right
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Level 56
Jul 13, 2021
By dexter they mean like the opposite of left.
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Level 84
Sep 7, 2021
Oculus got it, ihaveanewname. Magnus pun.
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Level 42
Mar 6, 2019
Nice, easy one.
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Level 70
May 20, 2019
I was sure "hibernum" was referring to Ireland or something Irish. I even tried England, Scotland, and Wales as answers.
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Level 53
Sep 7, 2021
The Roman Hibernia (Ireland) meant land of winter, but was sort of rigged up to be that way, rather than evolving naturally. The Celts called it Iweriu (a name of one of the tribes), which the Greek explorers made into Iouernia and Ierne. This either means

abundant land or west island. The Romans took this name and made it into Hibernia.

The Anglosaxons did a similar thing with York. Originally in Celtic it was Eboracon which meant place of the Yew tree. Relatively unchanged, Eboracum in Roman, Ebrauc in Brythonic. The Anglosaxons then changed it to Eoforwic, which meant market town of the Boar.

The meanings changed to the language of the new civilians, but was clearly structurally derived from the older name.

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Level 72
May 20, 2019
I think crux also means torture.
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2021
Not quite. You're probably think of cruciatus or cruciare, which are respectively the Latin noun and verb for "torture." They are etymologically descended from crux, though, due to the cross's use as an instrument of torture via crucifixion.
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Level 59
Aug 18, 2019
Dulcis can mean soft too.
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Level 58
Sep 8, 2021
And gentle.
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Level 88
Aug 18, 2019
I only missed Aurum...was thinking it would be related to Aural, and kept guessing words related to the ear, hearing, and sound.
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Level 28
May 30, 2020
Great quiz! But if you want to be more accurate, only proper nouns have capitals.
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Level 32
Jul 14, 2021
Winter in latin is Hiems i believe, not Hibernum
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Level 37
Sep 7, 2021
Dexter can be translated to clever, can it not?
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Level 80
Sep 16, 2022
All I could think of when I read Dexter was the monkey from Night at the Museum. Tried every variation of monkey, silly, and mischievous before giving up. By the way, it's an awesome movie: one of my favorites when I was little.
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Level 64
Sep 7, 2021
Please accept town for urbs? I knew it was related to urban...
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Level 38
Mar 30, 2022
Accept speech for vox?
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Level 71
Feb 5, 2023
Between this and the Latin Quiz where you give 22 phrases still in common vernacular (where you give the LATIN phrase for the English translation provided), I got all questions right. Getting 5 stars or even 100% is not a rare occurrence for me, but it is uncommon enough for me to be quite satisfied when it does happen. And when it is two related quizzes that don't see that many people getting 5 stars or, much less, 100%, I am that much more thrilled. I think the other one I mentioned has so far seen only about 3.8% get 100%.

Anyway, well, being in the elite on that shouldn't be the focus so much as the intrinsic satisfaction. But I do have to say THANK YOU to College Latin and THANK YOU to Dr. Gleason.

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Level 65
Jun 24, 2023
i think sweet should be added as a translation for dulcis, and heart for pectus. I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be so i got my dictionary (within the time lol) and looked it up and those indeed are good translations. (not sure if anyone is stille checking these comments though, last update 5 years ago hahah)
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Level 66
Jul 15, 2023
But sweet already is a answer to dulcis.
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Level 60
Jul 13, 2023
You should accept 'task' for 'opus'.
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Level 66
Jul 15, 2023
Task isn't a close meaning. Deed would be a better suggestion.
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Level 33
Jul 14, 2023
this reminds be of my granddaughter's favorite Rhianna song "opus opus opus opus opus" LOL.! I can't wait to tel my grandchild this joke
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Level 37
Nov 3, 2023
doing this quiz as a Portuguese speaker and I dont even need to think