Carmen Possum
Vocabulary List
- carmen, "song, poem."
- nox, "night."
- lux, "light."
- luna, "moon."
- nix, "snow."
- mundus, "world, earth, ground."
- non, "not."
- profundus, "deep."
- sic, "such, so, thus."
- canis, "dog."
- unus, "one."
- corpus, "body."
- bonus, "good."
- octo, "eight."
- brevior, "shorter."
- quam, "than."
- hic, hoc, "this."
- et, "and."
- stultum, from stultus, "foolish, silly."
- jocum, from iocus "joke." (Grammar slightly abused for the sake of the rhyme.)
- quod, "that, because."
- locum, "place."
- circum, "around."
- ad, "to, towards, at."
- duo, "two."
- puer, "boy."
- Nunquam, unquam, "never, ever."
- fuit, "was." (past tense of est.)
- amabat from amo, "love." Imperfect tense can mean "used to [verb]"
- plus, adv. "more."
- bene, adv. "well."
- cucurrit, perfect (past) tense of curro, "run, hasten."
- intentus, "eager."
- bellum, "war."
- terra, "earth, land."
- venisse, perfect infinitive of venio, "[to have] arrive[d], come."
- mors, "death."
- cum, "when."
- venerit, perfect of venio, "he arrived."
- quisque, "any."
- per, "through, thoroughly."
- staves: This word stumps me. It may be English "stave," archaic for "staff," perhaps a poetic way of referring to the axe? I can find no classical Latin equivalent of staves or stavus. Older versions of carmen possum have "on ye bravus" and "canis, puer, bite et stavus." et can also mean "also," so it could be "the dog, the boy, and [also] the axe/staff," but it's an odd wording.
- longius, comparative of longus, so "longer."
- potest, "be able, is able."
- pugnare, "to fight."
- quid, "what."
- velle, "to want, to wish."
- pater, "father."
- domo, should be domus, "home."
- homo, "man."
- certe, "surely, for certain."
- narrabunt future of narro, "tell."
- plenus, "full of."
- sanguine, "blood."
- gloria, "glory."
- victoria, "victory."
- mater, "mother."
- frater, "brother."
- somniunt, "dream."
- ursae, plural of ursa, "bear."
- albam, from albus, "white."
- resurrectum, from resurgo, "rise again."
- ecce, "behold!"
- dejectum from deicio, "to cast down."
- linquit, "left behind."
- sed, "but."
- bestia, "beast."
- tu, "you."
- Orcum, another name for Hades, the underworld.
- cum, "with."
- iste, "that, that very one."