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 |
I hope you enjoyed this lesson about the nouns in Latin. If you have any question about this lesson please contact me here. Now check the next lesson below.
| Latin Plural |
Inspirational Quote: A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. |