Latin Superlative Adjectives Quiz

The lower jaw.

The upper jaw.

The socket in the skull that holds the eye.

An opening or entrance.

The shoulder blade.

The backbone.

The shinbone, the larger of the two bones of the leg.

A blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart.

The study of Latin and Greek medical terms used in medicine.

The official international language of anatomical terminology.

The first official Latin anatomical nomenclature, established at a congress in 1895.

The latest edition of the official Latin anatomical nomenclature, published in 1998.

The system of naming and describing anatomical structures.

The branch of medical terminology that deals with diseases and their treatment.

The use of Greek and Latin roots in medical terminology.

A surgical procedure to remove the stomach.

A noun that changes endings to show its grammatical role in a sentence.

A noun that represents a person, place or thing.

The form of a noun that tells you its grammatical role in a sentence.

The form of a noun that tells you its number, singular or plural.

A noun that represents a male individual or an object traditionally associated with males.

A noun that represents a female individual or an object traditionally associated with females.

A noun that represents an object or concept that is not considered masculine or feminine.

A group of nouns that share similar grammatical patterns and endings.

The process of making a noun and adjective agree in gender, number, and case.

The part of a word remaining after removing the ending (e.g., 'simil' from 'similis').

Adjectives that have three endings (masculine, feminine, neuter).

Adjectives that have one or two endings (masculine/feminine, neuter).

The form of a noun or adjective used as the subject of a sentence.

Identifying the gender, number, and case of a noun or adjective.

The singular form of a noun or adjective used to look up its stem.

To translate a term into Latin, ensuring that its adjective agrees with its noun in gender, number, and case.

Words that describe the qualities of nouns, like size, color, or shape.

Latin adjectives change their endings depending on the gender of the noun they modify.

A group of adjectives in Latin that have distinct forms for each gender: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

The part of a word that remains after removing the ending. It helps to identify the root of the word.

The form of an adjective when it describes a masculine noun.

The form of an adjective when it describes a feminine noun.

The form of an adjective when it describes a neuter noun.

The superlative degree expresses the highest quality of a thing or person compared to others with the same quality.

The superlative form of Latin adjectives is made up of three parts: the masculine form, the feminine ending, and the neuter ending.

The superlative degree of adjectives is declined like the 1st and 2nd declensions in Latin.

The genitive singular endings for masculine and neuter adjectives in the superlative degree are '-i.' The feminine genitive singular ending is '-ae.'

The dictionary form of Latin adjectives in the superlative degree is the same as the dictionary form for adjectives of the 1st group (e.g., latissimus, longissimus, maximus).