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Latin Words #3

Can you translate these common Latin words into English?
All the answers are a single word
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Last updated: October 26, 2015
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First submittedSeptember 8, 2014
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Latin
English
Amor
Love
Veritas
Truth
Homo
Human
Liber
Free / Book
Argentum
Silver
Tempus
Time
Lex
Law
Latin
English
Altus
High
Borealis
Northern
Incognita
Unknown
Culpa
Fault
Ave
Hail
Domus
Home
Draco
Dragon
Latin
English
Semper
Always
Fortis
Strong
Sanguis
Blood
Vulpes
Fox
Cygnus
Swan
Primus
First
Ergo
Therefore
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Level 86
Sep 23, 2014
"Ergo" got me. I kept thinking of the greek root "ergon" which means work.
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Level 88
Nov 18, 2019
I got it from the Descartes saying "Cogito Ergo Sum." I think, therefore I am.
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Level 67
Nov 6, 2021
Ironcally, that one is used in common speech sometimes.
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Level 74
Oct 10, 2014
Could you accept "thus" for "ergo"? (It's not the same thus as sic, as in sic transit gloria mundi.)
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2014
Nice quiz. I got most of them, I've been studying Latin for over a year now.
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Level 69
Oct 10, 2014
Being a Spanish speaker made this way easier
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2020
But where did 'zorro' come from??
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Level 23
Jun 19, 2021
According to RAE, from Portuguese
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Level 53
Jul 10, 2021
according to the wiktionary page:

perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia,

perhaps from Somrai yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, sorrel, or

perhaps from Basque azari/azeri (“fox”).

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Level 49
Sep 24, 2021
Idk, but i also know pokemon so that helped
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Level 34
Oct 10, 2014
Good quiz, but Ave is also Hello
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Level ∞
Oct 26, 2015
Hello will work now
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2020
Please also accept 'hey brother'
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Level 71
Dec 7, 2020
And 'hey hermano'
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Level 37
Oct 10, 2014
100% on first attempt. Harry Potter and Pokemon helped. :)
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Level 33
Jan 31, 2022
Latin helps
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Level 82
Oct 10, 2014
doesn't homo also mean same? I know homo sapiens means modern man but homosexual? Homogenous? as opposed to hetero which means different.
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Level 82
Oct 10, 2014
I got that one. Missed Borealis.. tried "north" and "north wind" and some other stuff including other directions. Altus I think I tried mountains. Lex I tried word, book, and similar words. Incognita I tried disguise, disguised, secret, -ive, -ly, etc.
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Level 67
Jun 29, 2015
"Lex" is a tough one. It was tempting to answer "Luthor."
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Level 63
Oct 4, 2019
Incognita = in + cognita = not + known (same root as "cognitive" and "cognition")
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Level 48
Oct 10, 2014
You're right on homo and hetero, but those are Greek words.
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Level 75
Dec 23, 2016
I just watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and apparently all these words are Greek. :)
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Level 82
Feb 24, 2015
Thanks to the chorus.
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Level 79
Dec 26, 2016
Homo sapiens means 'knowing man' or 'intelligent man'.
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Level 82
Nov 6, 2021
I usually see "thinking man"
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Level 85
Oct 10, 2014
Romanes eunt domus.
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Level 71
Oct 13, 2014
People called Romanes they go a house?
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Level 69
Mar 29, 2015
"What case?"

"Err... dative? No, no, no! Accusative, accusative! 'ad' plus the accusative!"

"Right, now write it out a hundred times before sunbreak or I'll cut your testicles off!"

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Level 56
Oct 28, 2021
He hasn't written it out a hundred times and it's been over six years.
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Level 68
Oct 10, 2014
I think a few of them need to accept alternate words, such as "disguise" "misunderstood" for incognita, or particulary "blame" for culpa.
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Level 63
Oct 8, 2023
For incognita the question is asking for the Latin meaning, not the English.
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Level ∞
Oct 10, 2014
Added "thus" for ergo and "blame" for culpa.
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Level 74
Oct 10, 2014
Maybe add guilt for culpa. Just a thought.
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Level 51
Oct 10, 2014
I kept trying "guilt", as well.
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Level ∞
Oct 26, 2015
Guilt will work now
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Level 37
Mar 8, 2018
I thought"Mea culpa" means "My fault".
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Level 32
Oct 17, 2014
Should have gotten "Vulpes" it sounds similar to a name of a Pokemon fire fox from gen 1.
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Level 78
Oct 24, 2014
I think you should accept enigma, puzzle and unexplored (as in "terra incognita") for incognita.
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Level 37
Nov 21, 2017
Terra Incognita is translated "Unknown Land".
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Level 41
May 17, 2015
So "north" was not an acceptable answer for Borealis???
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Level ∞
Oct 26, 2015
North will work now
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Level 68
Dec 23, 2016
Got Vulpes my first try but not Homo or Tempus. I speak Spanish, too, which makes missing Tempus especially dumb.
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Level 48
Dec 23, 2016
Cygnus is actually a latin transliteration of a Greek word. The real Latin word for a swan is olor.
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Level 88
Dec 23, 2016
Did anyone else get Vulpes because of Vulpix the Pokemon.
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Level 65
Dec 23, 2016
I like Latin.

Liber Ta! Liber Ta! Liber Ta! (Scar face)

Argentum - Silver (Ag Damnit!)

Vulpes - Vulpine (Like a fox)

Semper Fi - Do or Die. (Always Faithful)

Domus - Domicile.

Tempus - Not Tempest. Temporal, Temporality

Altus - Altitude

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Level 75
Apr 29, 2020
Are you OK?
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Level 68
Dec 23, 2016
always forget Lex and Ave. Struggled with exact wording on a couple
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Level 75
Nov 16, 2019
Ave was easy for me because of the song, "Ave Maria" which I knew translated to Hail Mary. I had no idea about Lex.
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Level 74
Dec 23, 2016
i thought ave meant bird...
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Level 79
Dec 26, 2016
Avis means bird.
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Level 46
Jan 4, 2017
Caecilius est in horto
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Level 82
Nov 6, 2021
That takes me back.
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Level 57
Jan 16, 2017
20 out of 21
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Level 56
Dec 9, 2017
Are you sure "borealis" is Latin?
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Level 42
Dec 15, 2018
It's a loan word in Latin from Greek (like a lot of Latin words).
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Level 55
Feb 21, 2018
'sanguis' and 'primus' are already part of quiz 1 and 2 of this series.
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2018
Missed cygnus with 2:15 to spare, never heard of it. Weird that it scores higher than lex and vulpes (and another but on phone so cant see it without erasing comment)
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Level 84
May 20, 2019
Young swans are known as cygnets. I got confused and tried duck and goose but not swan.
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Level 82
Jun 8, 2022
there's also a costellation called Cygnus the Swan :-)
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Level 73
Oct 24, 2019
"tempus" also means "temple". I remember this one line in the Ars amatoria that contained that word and it was incredibly frustrating because "time" just wouldn't make sense.
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Level 26
Dec 28, 2020
This remark is quite true, but slightly confusing to some at the same time. "tempus" is only that "temple" that is part of our head, but never the place for sacrificing to gods and goddesses. So after all, I don't think adding "temple" as a translation is a good idea.
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Level 14
Nov 16, 2019
”Incognita” is a feminine adjective. For consistency’s sake it should be masculine ”incognitus”, as you have also ”altus” and ”primus” in masculine (and ”liber” in the sense ’free’). In addition, for swan ”cycnus” is better than ”cygnus”.
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Level 52
Nov 16, 2019
Having a romance language as mother tongue is litterally a hack of this quizz
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Level 49
Nov 16, 2019
Can you accept strength for fortis?
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Level 59
Nov 22, 2019
Why? They are not the same words. Strong is an adjective, strength is a noun (as are the Latin equivalents).
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2019
Maybe accept tall for high?
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Level 59
Nov 22, 2019
20/20. Nice to know that I can still put high school Latin to work 46 years later.
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Level 26
Dec 28, 2020
I think you should also accept "so" as a translation for "ergo".

And for "incognita" you might "unrecognized".

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Level 39
Apr 18, 2021
Knowing french makes this way easier now
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Level 67
Jun 15, 2021
For incognita I was thinking unseen
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Level 57
Aug 5, 2021
Very good quiz. Thanks.
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Level 67
Nov 6, 2021
Is 'secret' acceptable for incognita? Or, is that too far off?
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Level 86
Nov 6, 2021
I don't see why anything else could be accepted for incognita. it literally means "unknown"...
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Level 66
Apr 18, 2023
We may never know why.
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Level 38
Mar 29, 2022
It's amazing how many names and english words are derived from latin. The Pokemon named Vulpix is a fox, which Vulpes in latin.

Altus ---> altitude ---> high

Culpa ---> culprit ---> fault

Borealis ---> Aurora Borealis (northern lights) ---> Northern

Domus ---> domain ---> home

Liber ---> liberate ---> free

And in Spanish,

Liber ---> libro ---> book

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Level 68
Oct 8, 2023
That's because English is basically French vocabulary with German grammar stuffed into a bag and then shaken until it stopped making sense.
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Level 27
Jun 25, 2023
latin b2 omg
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Level 57
Jul 13, 2023
Strength/might for fortis? And mistake for culpa?