Latin Nouns

Welcome to the third Latin lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Latin to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes solani tubera

tomatoes solana lycopersica

onions caepia

carrots carotae

fruits fructus

apples poma

bananas bananae

oranges aurea mala

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Latin
do you have milk? [verb + noun] lac habesne?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] lac et coffeum habeo
he has three apples [number + plural noun] is habet tria poma
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] illa modo unum pomum habet
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] habitamus in domuncula
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] mihi placet prandium nostrum

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread panis

milk lac

butter butyrum

cheese caseus

coffee coffeum

sandwich panis fartus

meat caro

chicken pullus

fish piscis

breakfast ientaculum

lunch prandium

dinner cena

Conversation in Latin

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Latin
Do you speak (English/ Latin)? loquerisne anglice/latine?
Just a little modo paulo
I like Latin latina mihi placet
Can I practice with you? licetne tecum meditari?
How old are you? quot annos habes?
I'm thirty three years old triginta tres annos habeo
It was nice talking to you suavissime erat tecum loqui

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