Saturday, June 05, 2004
Mnemonics
David Pellegrino has assembled a useful collection of mnemonics for learning Latin. In a speech to the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching, Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) mentions one that isn't yet in Pellegrino's collection:
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Abstract nouns in -io callAnd neither Pellegrino's collection nor a Google search shows this mnemonic for feminine fourth declension nouns that I vaguely remember from my schooldays:
Feminina one and all;
Masculine will only be
Things that you can touch or see,
As curculio, vespertilio,
Pugio, scipio, and papilio,
With the nouns that number show
Such as ternio, senio.
A woman of a Latin tribus sat on the porticus of her domus with an acus in her manus stringing ficus on the Idus.That is,
A woman of a Latin tribe sat on the porch of her house with a needle in her hand stringing figs on the Ides.
