Here are a couple of Latin word ladders (scala verborum?) I made for my year nine class, see if you can work them out.
- canis to lupus in five steps
- nox to die in five steps
10 points for the first correct solutions!
[N.B. Apparently for proper word ladders jumbling letters or adding/subtracting a letter can count as a step, but for these ones it's not necessary.]
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7 comments:
Hi
How about:
canis
lanis
lunis
lupis
lupus
Cheers
Nick
that's better than my solution in fact. my five steps were:
canis
panis
punis
lunis
lupis
lupus
Nox to die. OK, I'll have a go:
nox
nix (snow)
pix (pitch, tar)
pie (piously, religiously)
die
How about albus to niger? That might take a while.
i had:
nox
vox (voice)
vix (scarcely)
vis (you want)
dis (to the gods)
die
but, again, yours is shorter than mine, so you win. albus to niger requires some serious thought...
albus
albes [you appear white]
alges [you feel]
aeges [craggy rocks]
aeger [sick/ill]
neger [pres. pass. subj -- deny]
niger
Technically, seven steps, but it does the job.
that's very impressive! i didn't think it could be done. some of those words are pretty obscure (when would you ever use the present passive subjunctive neger i wonder), but that just makes it even better!
Well, what can I say, sir? I'm magical like that.
... also, I figured it counted, to an extent, as "unseen study".
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