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Learn Hardcore Latin: discere - to learn

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 9
/discere

discere

Word

discere

Meaning

to learn

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of discere

Magistra dicit: "Hic liber facilis est, ille liber difficilis; tamen vos potestis multum discere."

The (female) teacher says: "This book is easy, that book is difficult; nevertheless you can learn a lot."

Discipulus domi manet ut verba difficilia iterum discat et postea facilius scribat.

The student stays at home so that he may learn the difficult words again and later write more easily.

Vespere discipula libros et tabulam parat, ut cras in schola bene discere possit.

In the evening the female student prepares her books and her board, so that tomorrow she can learn well at school.

Discipuli diu in bibliotheca manent, quia discere volunt etiam ea quae difficilia sunt, non solum quae facilia sunt.

The students stay in the library for a long time, because they want to learn even the things that are difficult, not only the things that are easy.

Discipuli libros legunt et cum magistro loquuntur; sic cotidie multum discunt, ut mentes eorum semper fortiores sint.

The students read books and talk with the teacher; thus every day they learn much, so that their minds may always be stronger.

Magister consilium dat, et discipuli id sequi volunt: “Si verba nova discere vis, epistulas breves scribe.”

The teacher gives advice, and the students want to follow it: “If you want to learn new words, write short letters.”

Discipula respondet se tandem intellegere et libenter discere.

The female student answers that she finally understands and gladly learns.

Discipuli in bibliotheca melius discunt, quia ibi tacent.

The students learn better in the library, because there they are silent.

Discipuli in bibliotheca facilius discunt, quia ibi tacent.

The students learn more easily in the library, because they are silent there.

Discipula scribit se apud aviam didicisse quomodo ramum fractum tollere et radices servare debeat.

The female student writes that she has learned at grandmother’s house how she ought to remove a broken branch and preserve the roots.

Cum studium et disciplina simul manent, pueri celerius discunt.

When eagerness and discipline remain together, boys learn more quickly.

Magistra exemplum clarum ostendit, ita discipuli facilius discunt.

The teacher shows a clear example, so the students learn more easily.

Puella discit quomodo vaccam mulgere debeat, et mater eam laudat.

The girl learns how she ought to milk the cow, and mother praises her.

Magistra existimat unumquemque modum utilem esse, quoniam quisque discipulus alio modo discit.

The teacher thinks that each method is useful, since each student learns in a different way.

Magistra dicit talem disciplinam utilem esse, quoniam sine ordine nemo bene discere potest.

The teacher says that such discipline is useful, since without order no one can learn well.

Hic modus discipulis placet, quia facilius discunt.

This method pleases the students, because they learn more easily.

Scriptor iuvenis dicit se artem picturae ab avia didicisse, sed usu etiam nunc meliorem fieri.

The young writer says that he learned the art of painting from his grandmother, but that even now he becomes better through practice.

Magistra monet usum saepe plus valere quam timorem, si quis artem aliquam discere velit.

The teacher warns that practice is often worth more than fear, if someone wants to learn some skill.

Postquam domum redimus, mater rogat quid puellae in portu didicerint de gubernatore et de velo.

After we return home, mother asks what the girls learned in the harbor about the helmsman and the sail.

Filia respondet se in prora stetisse, matrem in puppi sedisse, et nodum firmum facere didicisse.

The daughter answers that she stood at the prow, that her mother sat at the stern, and that she learned to make a firm knot.

Magistra dicit: “Discite non verba tantum, sed etiam usum verborum; sic enim bona lectio et bonus auctor vobis diu utiles erunt.”

The teacher says: “Learn not only words, but also the use of words; for thus a good lesson and a good author will be useful to you for a long time.”

Magistra dicit artem interpretandi non solum legendo, sed etiam audiendo disci.

The teacher says that the skill of interpreting is learned not only by reading, but also by listening.

Legendo orationem consulis et interpretando verba eius, discipuli discunt quam difficilis ars bene dicendi sit.

By reading the consul’s speech and interpreting his words, the students learn how difficult the skill of speaking well is.

Sic discipuli discunt ordinem, vigilias, et animos firmos et in bello et in pace magnam vim habere.

Thus the students learn that order, watchfulness, and brave spirits have great power both in war and in peace.

Qui libros legunt, facilius discunt.

Those who read books learn more easily.

Sunt qui putent forum esse scholam viventem, in qua pueri et puellae non minus quam in libris discant.

There are those who think that the forum is a living school, in which boys and girls learn no less than in books.

Lucia autem censet se illo die et de hereditate et de alveo fluminis multa didicisse.

Lucia, however, thinks that on that day she learned many things both about inheritance and about the river channel.

Industria quoque discipulae honori est, si verba nova cotidie discit.

Diligence is also an honor to the student, if she learns new words every day.

Discipuli discendi causa ante meridiem in bibliothecam veniunt, non solum legendi causa, sed etiam disputandi causa.

The students come to the library before midday for the sake of learning, not only for the sake of reading, but also for the sake of discussing.

Etiam si hora longa est, pergimus discere, sed ante cenam laborare desinimus.

Even if the hour is long, we continue to learn, but before dinner we stop working.

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