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Learn Hardcore Latin: quercus - the oak

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 66
/quercus

quercus

Word

quercus

Meaning

the oak

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of quercus

Post scholam magistra discipulos ad silvam ducit, ubi quercus altae et pinus densae crescunt.

After school the teacher leads the students to a forest, where tall oaks and thick pines grow.

In alta quercu aquila sedet et procul campos spectat.

In a tall oak an eagle sits and looks at the fields far away.

Alia formica super corticem quercus celeriter ambulat et ad eandem glandem redit.

Another ant walks quickly over the bark of the oak and returns to the same acorn.

Puer corticem arboris tangit et rogat cur cortex quercus tam asper sit.

The boy touches the bark of the tree and asks why the bark of the oak is so rough.

Sub quercubus avia glandes numerat et dicit ex glandibus novam quercum nasci posse.

Under the oaks grandmother counts acorns and says that a new oak can grow from acorns.

Sic et verba nova et res novae memoria tenentur, cum discipuli non solum in schola sedeant, sed etiam oculis suis quercus, pinos, hirundines, et formicas observent.

Thus both new words and new things are kept in memory, when students not only sit in school, but also observe with their own eyes oaks, pines, swallows, and ants.

In alta quercu aquila videri potest.

An eagle can be seen in the tall oak.

Cortex huius quercus asper est, sed puella eum libenter tangit.

The bark of this oak is rough, but the girl gladly touches it.

Faber carinam ex quercu facit.

The craftsman makes the keel out of oak.

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