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I Just Had a Latin Moment!
DIDN'T THINK LATIN HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR WORLD? THINK AGAIN!
Just saw something on TV that was related to something you learned in
Latin class? Spotted a word derived from Latin in your favorite book? Well, perhaps you've
just had a Latin moment!
Latin Moments are worth extra credit points. Look for Latin all
around you!
Need to see examples? Read LAST
YEAR'S Latin Moments.
I HAD A LATIN MOMENT!
- On the Disney Channel I was watching Boy Meets World and after
class...Minkes said "carpe diem". AS 1/18/02
- Yesterday I was watching "Cheers" and Diane said, "tempus fugit"
which means "time flies". EC 1/23/02
- "alma mater" off of a Daria (?) in "Is it College Yet?" JBN
1/22/02
- The Harpies in Spanish are lechusas; they were also birds with
girl heads and smelled bad when they left. You have to curse them to
co away. AB 1/18/02
- Incubus (name of a band) really means an evil spirit believed to
descend upon and have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; a
nightmare; something nightmarish or burdensom. LN 10/24/01
- Aqueous--an adjective for watery. LN 10/24/01
- I was watching the Andy Griffith Show and Barney (the deputy) said
that centennial comes from the Latin word centum meaning 100. ND
10/23/01
- I had a Latin moment this weekend when I was taught some Spanish:
¿tu tienes sueño? (Are you sleepy?) the last word, sueño, comes
from somnus, the Latin word for dream (-o- > -ue-; -mn->ñ;
-us. -o). Magistra 10/20/01
- I had a Latin moment this weekend when I was taught some Spanish:
quiero dormir (I want to sleep); the last word, dormir, comes from
the Latin word, dormire, which means "to sleep". Magistra
10/20/01
- I saw a candy bar named LUNA which means moon in Latin. ND
10/19/01
- I was at a retirement home in Oklahoma and the little houses were
labeled "villa". FR/ED 10/16/01
- I was playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the question was
"What does Carpe Diem mean?" and it is "Seize the
day!" KS 10/10/01
- When I was playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire again the
question was "What does the phrase Caveat Emptor mean?"
and it means Let the Buyer Beware! KS 10/15/01
- Way back when I was just getting introduced to the internet and
was having severe technical difficulties, I got an email from the
technical staff at shorenet which ended with the following: Hostes
aliengenti me abduxerunt! Quid annus est? (Aliens have abducted me!
What year is it?) I thought it was neat.--Heather Greening (from
an email, not from class) 9/29/01
- I was in first period and Mr Piper turned on the TV an it said
"dura lex, sed lex" and it said that it meant "the
law is touch, but it is the law." GC 10/4/01
- On the one dollar coin it says e pluribus unum, "out of many,
one." JG 9/26/01
- I was watching "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the
Forum" and there is an old man named Senex and that means old
man in Latin. KS 9/24/01
- hydrargyrum = watery silver; from a science book (on Mercury) LN
9/24/01
- The cover of "Historical Cats" had Julius Caesar's cat
saying "Et tu, Fluffy?" and it has SPQR on a stick he has
in his hand. AH 9/25/01
- Caecilius is a Patronus like the patronus Harry used in the book
The Prizoner of Azkahban. PD 9/20/01
- Carpe dentem--seize the teeth! In Mrs Doubtfire she drops her
teeth in the wine glass and says Carpe Dentem. ED 9/18/01
- Recess School's Out: A kid was dressed in a Roman Soldier outfit
(a Roman civilization moment) JB aka LN 9/18/01
- Carpe dentem--seize the teeth; Mrs Doubtfire. JB aka LN 1/18/01
- From Harry Potter: Caput draconis--it is a password into their
dorms. It means "head of the dragon". OH 9/20/01
- "quid pro quo" something for something; from Hannibal.
Clarisse and Hannibal are having a phone conversation and she wants
to know where he is but she can't tell the FBI. JB aka LN 9/4/01
- Submarine comes from the Latin word sub which means under (and
maris which means sea)--under
the sea. LK 8/21/01
- "Justitiae soror fides" means "Faith is the sister
of Justice." From A Wrinkle in Time, p35. JB aka LN 8/24/01
- "In flagrante delicto" means "caught in the
act." From A Wrinkle in Time, p 35. JB aka LN 8/24/01
Got a Latin Moment to share? You don't have to be in Latin
class at Porter to share a Latin Moment! Just email it to ginlindzey@lindzey.us
and we'll post it here.
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