Latin/Food Lesson 1

Salvēte!

Now that we have a basic familiarity with the first three declensions, it’s time to have some fun with everyone’s favorite subject, food! For a guide to previous lessons and a classified vocabulary list, be sure to check out the links on the right.

For today’s lesson, there is no new grammar. Just review the cases of nouns for the 3 declensions; we’ll mainly be using nominative and accusative.

Practice
I think the vocabulary of food is a good way to practice combining the first three declensions. There is a lot of food vocabulary to come in future lessons. Some of the vocabulary is relatively modern in origin, since coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, etc. were not known to the Romans. For those interested in historical authenticity, I highly recommend looking at the Roman cookbook: Apicius, dē rē coquīnāria

Valēte!