Latin test

[robjh]

95% with some intelligent guesswork and deduction. Guessed wrongly for alias.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Romanes eunt domum.

 

[swee'pea99]

60%. Never studied latin, but I have to confess I thought I'd done better. Oh well.

 

[Tim Hall]

80%. Mind you I thought non sequiter should be thing that doesn't cut the roses.

 

[Glow worm]

Pass the dunce's hat someone - 40%

 

[robjh]

[QUOTE 2818395, member: 259"]Same as French ailleurs[/quote]
Yes it was clearly something to do with other, but other what?

FWIW that fount of knowledge Wiktionnaire says that ailleurs is "Plutôt que directement issu du latin aliorsum, de *in aliore loco où *aliore est une forme comparative de alius (« autre ») → voir superior, inferior et altior."

I also found out that, if you go back far enough, it is related to English 'else'.

Just saying, like - it's probably best not to bog this thread down too far with Indo-European etymologies

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

80% Not bad for someone who hasn't studied latin.

 

[DaveReading]

VC%

Fell down on alias too.

 

[slowmotion]

95% with some intelligent guesswork and deduction. Guessed wrongly for alias.

Snap! I got alias wrong too. I studied Latin for seven years from age seven. I hated every minute of it.

 

[Scoosh]

I score like @Mort.

 

[the_mikey]

75%

 

[threebikesmcginty]

70%, notus badium.

 

[RedRider]

Alias, invicta and ad lib were Greek to me. 85% but never did Latin.

 

[asterix]

90%.

I'm slipping as I got 99% in my last Latin exam 39 years ago

If your memory is that bad are you sure it wasn't 39%, 99 years ago?

 

[growingvegetables]

100% - but I'd have been shamed to get less. Scottish Higher and Advanced Latin at uni ........... classroom swot slinks back into his corner!