Usages of vinum
Mercator panem et vinum in villa cenat.
The merchant dines on bread and wine in the villa.
Discipulus intrat et vinum magistro donat.
The student enters and gives wine to the teacher.
Magister patri vinum non donat, sed matri panem donat.
The teacher does not give wine to father, but gives bread to mother.
Frater amicis vinum non donat.
The brother does not give wine to his friends.
Filius vinum non bibit, sed aquam petit.
(The son does not drink wine, but asks for water.)
Frater vinum patri petit.
The brother asks father for wine.
Magister in taberna panem et vinum videt.
The teacher sees bread and wine in the shop.
Mercator occupatus in taberna manet, sed servus vinum ad villam portat.
The busy merchant stays in the shop, but the servant carries wine to the villa.
In atrio domina cum hospite sedet et vinum miscet.
In the atrium the mistress sits with a guest and mixes wine.
Hospes aquam vino miscet, sed puer vinum purum bibere cupit.
The guest mixes water with wine, but the boy desires to drink unmixed wine.
Puer tantum aquam bibit, quia vinum non amat.
The boy drinks only water, because he does not like wine.
Caupo respondet se pretium minuere non posse, quia amphora vini iam vacua est.
The innkeeper answers that he cannot lower the price, because the jar of wine is already empty.
Hospes rogat cur amphora tam cito vacua facta sit, et caupo dicit vinum hodie deesse.
The guest asks why the jar became empty so quickly, and the innkeeper says that wine is lacking today.
Hospes panem edere cupit, sed vinum hodie deest.
The guest wants to eat bread, but wine is lacking today.
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