Jenny's Latin I Lesson 30 Vocab

Front 1

diēs, -eī, m.

Back 1

day

Front 2

faciēs, -eī, f.

Back 2

appearance; face

Front 3

fidēs, -eī, f. (*)

Back 3

faith, trust, belief

Note: Fidēs can also mean trustworthiness, pledge, safe-conduct, protection. With the preposition "in", in either the accusative or ablative, it means "under the protection of".

Dianae sumus in fidē.
We are under the protection of Diana.

Graecī in fidem pupulī Rōmānī vēnērunt.
The Greeks came under the protection of the Roman People.

Front 4

humus, -ī, f.

Back 4

ground, earth, soil

Front 5

rēs, reī, f. (*)

Back 5

thing, affair, fact

Note: Rēs almost never can be translated "thing", which is nevertheless the only English word which comes close to covering it wide range of meanings which include circumstances, reality, property, benefit, lawsuit, business, art, and science. Some idioms which illustrate its meanings:

rēs publica
republic, commonwealth

dē rē rūsticā
about the bsiness (science, art) of farming

rēs novae
revolution, political change

rēs secundae
favorable circumstances, prosperity

carmen dē rērum nātūrā
a poem about the nature of the universe

rē vērā
in actual fact, really

ex tuā (meā, suā, etc.) rē
to your (my, his, her, their, etc.) own advantage

summa rēs
(sometimes abbrevited to summa) sum-total, the bottom line

omnibus rēbus
in all respects

Fac tuam rem.
Mind your own business.

Front 6

rūs, rūris, n.

Back 6

country, countryside;
country place

Front 7

speciēs, -eī, f.

Back 7

sight, appearance, show;
kind

Front 8

spēs, -eī, f.

Back 8

hope, expectation

Front 9

publicus, -a, -um

Back 9

public, belonging to the people (populus)

Front 10

rūsticus, -a, -um

Back 10

of the country, of farming