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 Natalicio

to celebrate Christmas: Festum Natalicium ago, is, ere, egi, actum

to 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.