10 October Agenda Tuesday: Nouns and Declensions, First and Second Declension Nouns, Mica Mica

BELLWORK:

Word of the day: "Declension"
A declension is a group or family of nouns whose endings all follow the same pattern. There are five declensions.


Copy the lyrics BELOW and try to figure out the name of the song in English. The music for this song was composed by Mozart .

Mica, Mica, parva stella;
Miror quaenam sis tam bella.
Splendens eminus in illo,
Alba velut gemma caelo.

Key nouns: stella, gemma

Key adjectives: parva, bella, splendens, alba

Verb: mica is a command or imperative form (micare)

Verb: sis = you are

What is this song?
Music to song
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Notes (students should copy these notes into their notebooks):

In the first two chapters, which were about two Roman girls, Cornelia and Flavia, most of the nouns and adjectives belong to the FIRST DECLENSION and their grammatical gender is female. Here are some examples:

amīca/amīcae    friend/friends

dēfessa/dēfessae            tired

strēnua/strēnuae            active, energetic

puella, ae            girl (noun, fem.)

altera    another (adjective)

laeta      happy (adjective)

Romana               Roman (adjective)

vīcīna     neighboring (adjective)

villa, ae house, country house (noun)

Note that they end in -a in singular and -ae in the plural when they are subjects of sentences. So too do these words from the mystery song:

stella

gemma

parva

bella

alba

Watch the following video for a presentation of the FIRST DECLENSION and take notes.

LatinTutorial - The First Declension (ask substitute to project this on the screen)

In chapter 3 of Ecce Romani, all the characters are male.  Most of the nouns and adjectives belong to the SECOND DECLENSION and their grammatical gender is masculine. Here are some examples:

hortus, ī           garden (noun, masc.)

servus, ī           slave (noun, masculine)

puer, puerī       boy  (noun, masculine)

vir, virī                        man (noun, masculine)

alter     another, the other (adjective)

īrātus, a, um    angry  (adjective)

sōlus, a, um     alone (adjective)

Britannicus      British

You notice that second declension nouns and adjectives end in -us or -r when they are singular subjects; and -i when they are plural subjects (pueri).

Now watch the LatinTutorial video for the Second Declension and take notes.


Next move on to the post for Chapter 03 pre-reading questions, story and vocabulary. .....