COMMERCIUM EPISTULARUM (VII)
CHRISTMAS (and birthday celebrations)
(using the future before celebrations / the perfect afterwards, and the agreement of tenses)
public holiday (GB), holiday (NAm):
dies (diei) festus (i), m.Festum, i, n.
Christmas:
Festum, i Natalicium, ii, n.Nativitas, atis (f.) Domini
Dies natalis Iesu Christi
birthday:
dies natalis, m.natalis, is, m.
24 December (date):
(modern calendar:) XXIV° (= vicesimo quarto) die m.Dec.(roman calendar:) a.d.IX Kal.Ian. (= ante Kalendas Januarias)
31 December (date): XXXI° die m.Dec. (or:) Pridie Kalendas Ianuarias
New Year (date): Primo novi anni die (or:) Kalendis Ianuariis (Kalendae, arum)
Santa Claus, Father Christmas (GB):
Pater (Patris) Natalicius (ii)to believe in Santa Claus:
credo, is, ere (+ dat.) Patri Natalicioto celebrate Christmas:
Festum Natalicium ago, is, ere, egi, actumto celebrate a holiday: festum diem agere
to celebrate a birthday: diem natalem agere
a present:
donum, i, n.munus, eris, n.
to give a present (to): donum do, das, dare, dedi, datum (+ dat.)
to receive a present (from): donum accipio, is, ere, accepi, acceptum (a / ab + abl.)
to ask for a present (from): donum rogo, as, are, rogavi, rogatum a(b) + abl.
= > a book / a comic book liber, libri, m. / fabula (ae) nubeculata (ae), f.
= > a music CD discus (i) compactus (i), m.
= > a data CD discus (i) ordinatralis (is) (or:) computatralis
= > a radio / a channel radiophonum, i, n. / discophonum, i, n.
= > a computer computatrum, i, n. (or:) ordinatrum, i, n.
= > a game (electronic game) ludus, i (or:) lusus, us, m. (electronicus)
= > a video cassette / a DVD caseta (ae) visifica (ae) / disculus (i) visificus (i)
= > money pecunia, ae, f.
= > clothing vestis, is, f.
= > (a piece of) jewelry ornamentum, i, n.
= > perfume unguentum, i, n.
= > sports clothes and equipment res, rerum athleticae, arum (f.pl.)
= > a camera instrumentum (i) photographicum (i), n.
= > a watch horologium (ii) brachiale (is), n.