CLA 030 QUIZ 1

C.E.

Common Era; alternative to A.D.

Anno Domini

In the year of our Lord or A.D.

B.C.E

Before Common Era (same as BC)

When was the country Greece formed?

1800’s

Where did the Greeks live by in 2nd millennium B.C.E (1500 BCE)?

Aegean Sea: Northern Edge & West Coast (Turkey)

Greeks (over the next 1000 years) also spread into…

Mediterranean Sea: Southern France, Black Sea, Southern Italy, Sicily & North Africa

Who conquered Afroeurasia?

Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE)

Where did Alexander the Great bring Greek language/culture to?

Eastern Mediterranean

Where did Greeks leave their marks?

European, Middle Eastern, & South Asian Cultures

Central Italian people who got their name from the city of Rome

Romans

When do the first records of the Romans date back to?

First millennium BCE (~500 BCE)

Romans originally controlled…

Small area in central Italy

By what time did the Roman Empire control the entire Mediterranean?

1 C.E. (time of Jesus)

Latin became the dominant language of…

The Western Mediterranean

Greek was the common language of…

the Eastern Mediterranean

When did the Western Latin speaking parts of the Roman Empire split into different independent states?

Middle of first millennium C.E

Greek speaking part of Roman Empire lived on until…

1453 C.E.

Latin changed into…

Modern Romance languages like: Spanish, French & Italian

Roman Empire ended in

~476 CE

Germanic Language

Languages (English, German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) that reflects the expansion of peoples out of a Northern Europe to the west and south

Peak of the Roman Empire/when they conquered Britain

100-200 CE

Roads of Rome (Vaie)

Increased trade, economic and personal gain - reason why Romans established

Hadrians North Wall

To keep the “wild” people out

Britain had what kind of speakers?

Celtic speakers

Gaelic

Irish Celtic Language

Irish

Welsh Celtic Language

Germans entered the Roman Empire in…

4th century

What language did Germanic Peoples speak

Germanic

Who were the Germanic escaping?

Huns (aggressive non-Germanic people)

What Germanic Tribe attacked the Roman Empire?

Vosigoths

When did Germanic peoples invade Britain?

5th century CE

When did the Western Roman Empire end

476 CE

1st stage of English

400-1100 CE (Anglo-Saxon/Old English)

When did Christianity bring Latin & Greek words into Old English?

600 CE

Who was the first Anglo-Saxon King to become Christian?

King Ethelbert of Kent

When did the Norman’s bring the French language to France?

1066 CE

2nd stage of English

Middle English (1100-1500 CE)

Why did the 2nd stage of English end?

Renaissance influence & introduction of printing press to English by William Caxton

3rd stage of English

Modern English (1500-present)

Virtue

-greatly wanted in the New Republic of US

- Gained from reading Roman writings

Cleopatra movie

- movie about US through Rome

- afraid women would take over in power & be strong→ women’s liberation

Gladiator movie

- “give back Roman republic”

- regular people should have power to make decisions not wealthy people

E pluribus unum means

out of many, one

Annuit coeptis means

He (God) looks favorably upon us (When US Republic was getting started)

“Novus ordo seclorum” means?

New order of the ages or New World Order

Where did the Founding Fathers get the phrase “Annuit Coeptis” for the seal?

Eclogue 4

First Bilingual Dictionary

The Urra- hubullu

Oldest monolingual dictionary

Chinese Erya

First monolingual English dictionary

Table alphabetical

What was the “flaw” in the dictionary created by Samuel Johnson?

He only included words thought were good from “good sources”

1st American Dictionary written by Noah Webster

compendious dictionary of the English language

Most comprehensive dictionary in the world

Oxford English Dictionary

1st editor of the Oxford dictionary

Sir James Murray

Derived form Greek and Latin (recent, emphasis, high, interest, rates)

Content words

Words that hold cement words together (with, the, on) come from Anglo-Saxon

Function words

Morphemes

The smallest units of meaning in a language

as, ad

to, toward

dis

away, apart

e, ex

out, from

in, im

in, into

re

back, again

pel, pulse

push, drive

quire

ask, seek

solve, solut

loosen

spic, spect

look at, see

sume

use up, take

vene, vent

come

Empty morpheme

Morpheme has no clear meaning (ex: re in repel and resume’

Full morpheme

Meaning can be assigned to it

Intensifying morpheme

Morpheme that makes the base stronger

Allomorph

Variation of a morpheme (ex: ac is allomorph of ad

pre

before

retro

backward

intro

into

contra

against

pro

forward or in favor of

con

together

al

connected with, pertaining to

cess

come, go

creat

make, build

feder

union of states

ion

act of

medic

connected with the science of medicine

ment

act of

{or}

Person (or thing) who acts or does something

What is an allomorph of base {spic}

spect

What is an allomorph of {in} that appears when {in} is added to {pel}

im

The morpheme {re} in respect is classes as a _ morpheme

empty

The morpheme {con} in conspicuous is?

Intensive

The morpheme {in} in invent is?

Full

sine die

without definite date

per diem

daily allowance (per day)

post meridiem

afternoon

tabula rasa

clean slate

ad nauseam

to point of making one ill (seasickness/illness)

nasturium etymology

nose twister

everyday speech: a flower

squirrel etymology

shadow tail

everyday speech: a rodent with a bushy tail

scruples etymology

a small pebble

everyday speech: feeling of guilt that prevents you from doing something

villain etymology

farmhouse slave

everyday speech: a bad person

ukulele etymology

flea jump

everyday speech: a small guitar in Hawaii