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Learn Hardcore Latin: lucerna - the lamp

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 6
/lucerna

lucerna

Word

lucerna

Meaning

the lamp

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of lucerna

Nocte obscura avia prope lucernam sedet et cantat.

On a dark night the grandmother sits near the lamp and sings.

Puella parva aviam audit, quae cantat, et lucernam obscuram spectat.

The little girl listens to her grandmother, who is singing, and looks at the dim lamp.

Mater respondet: "Nonne avia in horto cantabit, ubi luna et stellae lucent? Nunc fenestram aperio, ita lucerna clara erit."

Mother answers: "Won’t grandmother sing in the garden, where the moon and stars shine? Now I am opening the window, so the lamp will be bright."

Vespere pater lucernam accendit, ut filia in cubiculo legere possit.

In the evening father lights a lamp, so that his daughter can read in the bedroom.

Servus lucernam accendere debet, ut domina in atrio epistulam legere possit.

The servant must light the lamp so that the mistress can read a letter in the atrium.

Servus cito lucernam accendit, ut domina epistulam legere possit.

The servant quickly lights the lamp, so that the mistress can read the letter.

Cum nox obscura esset, pater lucernam accendit.

When the night was dark, father lit the lamp.

Cum sol occidit, mater lucernam accendit.

When the sun sets, mother lights the lamp.

Mater lucernam accendit, ut lumen in atrio sit.

Mother lights the lamp, so that there may be light in the atrium.

Serva calices e mensa removet et lucernam adhibet, ut mater epistulam clarius legere possit.

The maid removes the cups from the table and uses a lamp, so that mother can read the letter more clearly.

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