Latin IQ Test
Latin is one of our Proto-Indo-European language
roots.
We will now test your depth in this department.
If you get them all, you are a superb person
If you get but half, you are okay.
If you get fewer than six, you will be whipped.
1. Pro
a: for
b: urban teacher
c: paid athlete
2. Amore
a: (the) love
b: (an) ethical principle
c: (I want) extra
3. Verborum
a: (of) words
b: a talkative drunk
c: action words are
uninteresting
4. Non
a: not, no
b: female member of
a Catholic order
c: a kind of entity
5. Est
a: is
b: the opposite of
west
c: to win without
losing a point
6. Sunt
a: (they) are
b: (we) is
c: (they) be
7. Mundis
a: world
b: the first working
day of the week
c: what Scots do to
their enemies before they hack their heads off
8. Bellum
a: war
b: a bag of hot air
c: what one does with
multitudinous stalks of straw
9. Ager (Agri)
a: field
b: to irritate
c: (type of) person
(suffix, as in "teenager")
10. Cancer
a: a crab
b: to annul
c: (to a superior)
promise to accomplish
11. Socer
a: father-in-law
b: foot covering
c: a field game
12. Filius
a: son
b: a young female
horse
c: a big meal
13. Nauta
a: a sailor
b: a kind of chance
c: where a limb meets
a tree trunk
14. Et
a: and
b: the number between
seven and nine
c: to consume food
(past tense)
15. Taeter
a: foul, smelly
b: a South American
tuber
c: a leader (suffix:
as in dic - taeter)
16. Locus
a: place
b: an insect
c: observe (my group)
17. Sed
a: but
b: to speak (past
tense)
c: (it is) Edward
18. Nox
a: night
b: difficult life
experiences
c: tapping on an entry
door
19. Pons
a: a bridge
b: small bodies of
water
c: what a burglar
does with stolen jewelry
20. Mare
a: a sea
b: an adult female
horse
c: the leading city
political official
The Answers:
(every answer is "a")