Latin topics for grades 3–8
Latin Launchpad is a free Latin course for students in grades 3–8. Classical schools and homeschool families use it for vocabulary, grammar, mottoes, Roman culture, stories, quizzes, and Annual Exam Study. These pages are the same course in readable HTML, with links into the practice app.
Year 1 is grade 3, Year 2 is grade 4, Year 3 is grade 5, and Year 4 is grades 6–8. Guest practice stays on the device. An email account is optional for a learner age 13 or older, or for an adult.
Vocabulary by yearHeadwords and English meanings for Years 1–4.
Grammar topicsEndings, verbs, and the syntax lessons.
Roman culture and mythCards for myth, daily life, history, values, and places.
DerivativesEnglish words built from this course's Latin.
MottoesSayings and abbreviations with English meanings.
Annual Exam StudyWhat each practice level covers.
PrintablesLesson summaries, crosswords, and word finds.
StoriesIllustrated scenes that use the year's words.
Every topic page
Search engines and families can open any of these without running the practice app. Each page links back to the lesson, flashcards, Roman world, word building, or Annual Exam Study screen that uses the same material.
Vocabulary
- Latin vocabulary by year
- Year 1 vocabulary
- Year 2 vocabulary
- Year 3 vocabulary
- Year 4A vocabulary
- Year 4B vocabulary
- Year 4C vocabulary
- Year 4 reading vocabulary
Grammar
- Latin grammar topics
- Year 1 · Grade 3: Endings Change Meaning
- Year 2 · Grade 4: One or Many?
- Year 2 · Grade 4: Present Action Endings
- Year 2 · Grade 4: Little Words in a Phrase
- Year 2 · Grade 4: I, You, and Who
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Subject or Object?
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Sum, Es, Est
- Year 4A · Grade 6: The Five Case Jobs
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Declension Patterns
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Adjectives Agree
- Year 4B · Grade 7: Third-Declension Clues
- Year 4B · Grade 7: Pronouns in Place
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Perfect and Passive Signals
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Participles and Comparison
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Stems and Emphasis
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Prepositions Choose a Case
- Year 4B · Grade 7: Third and Fourth Conjugations
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Perfect Stems and Ablatives
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Sentence Patterns and Pronoun Families
- Year 1 · Grade 3: Latin Letters and Sounds
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Declension Review
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Of and To
- Year 3 · Grade 5: With and From
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Was Doing
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Do! and To Do
- Year 3 · Grade 5: A Good Girl
- Year 3 · Grade 5: King and Father
- Year 3 · Grade 5: One to Ten
- Year 4B · Grade 7: Syntax and Agreement
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Infinitives and Possession
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Commands and Infinitives
- Year 4C · Grade 8: The Complete Verb System
- Year 2 · Grade 4: Asking a Question
- Year 3 · Grade 5: And, Or, and Because
- Year 3 · Grade 5: Happily and Bravely
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Impersonal Verbs
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Questions and Short Commands
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Time and Space
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Comparison and Reflexives
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Numbers and Idioms
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Subjunctive Forms
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Purpose and Result
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Indirect Command and Question
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Cum Clauses and Fear
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Conditions
- Year 4C · Grade 8: The Ablative Absolute
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Gerund and Gerundive
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Periphrastics
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Deponents and Semi-deponents
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Place, Supines, and Special Cases
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Roman Numerals and Number Words
- Year 4C · Grade 8: Hexameter on Real Lines
- Year 4A · Grade 6: I Have Loved
- Year 4A · Grade 6: I Can and Do Not
- Year 4A · Grade 6: Calling a Name
- Year 4A · Grade 6: How It Is Done
Roman culture
- Roman culture and myth
- The Appian Way
- Janus and Beginnings
- Hannibal at the Gates
- An Altar for Peace
- Livy Writes Rome's History
- The Arch of Constantine
- The Vatican Field
- Water Across a Bridge
- Hadrian's Wall
- A Frontier Farther North
- A Story Carved in Stone
- Cincinnatus Returns to His Field
- Rome Is Captured
- Latin Letters and English Words
- The Roman World Around the Sea
- Early Latin Writers and Carthage
- Romulus and Remus
- A Walk Through Rome
- War, Peace, and Roman Power
- Dinner in the Triclinium
- A Library Across the Centuries
- Senate, People, and Magistrates
- From Republic to Mediterranean Power
- Augustus and the Roman Empire
- Christians in the Later Roman World
- Roman Gods as Myth and Language
- Roman Dress and Public Identity
- Latin Hidden in Everyday Writing
- The Twelve Tables and Written Law
- Civil War and the End of the Republic
- Pompeii and Vesuvius
- Constantinople and Justinian
- The Trevi Fountain
- The Dies Irae
- Jupiter
- Juno
- Neptune
- Pluto
- Ceres
- Vesta
- Minerva
- Apollo
- Diana
- Mars
- Venus
- Vulcan
- Mercury
- Bacchus
- Echo and Narcissus
- Arachne
- King Midas
- Daphne
- Baucis and Philemon
- Pygmalion
- The Trojan War
- Achilles
- The Trojan Horse
- Aeneas Leaves Troy
- Dido
- Theseus and the Labyrinth
- Daedalus and Icarus
- Jason and the Fleece
- Hercules
- Perseus
- Odysseus
- Atalanta
- The Underworld
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- The Fates
- The Furies
- The Muses
- Nymphs
- Satyrs
- Centaurs
- The Atrium
- The Bedroom
- The Kitchen
- The Dining Room
- The Study
- The Garden Court
- Apartment Houses
- The Toga
- The Tunic
- The Stola
- Roman Meals
- The Household
- The Forum
- The Palatine Hill
- The Capitol
- The Amphitheater
- The Circus
- The Baths
- School
- Kalends, Nones, and Ides
- Priests
- A Wedding
- A Triumph
- Magistrates
- The Legion
- Romulus Founds Rome
- The Seven Kings
- Why the Monarchy Ended
- The Republic Begins
- Horatius at the Bridge
- Cloelia
- Mucius
- Pyrrhus
- The First Punic War
- Hannibal
- The Fall of Carthage
- Marius and Sulla
- Cicero and Catiline
- Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
- The Rubicon
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Augustus
- The Julio-Claudians
- The Flavians
- Five Good Emperors
- Proserpina
- Phaethon
- Prometheus
- Pandora
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- Cupid and Psyche
- Europa and Cadmus
- Niobe
- The Household Shrine
- The Bulla
- Saturnalia
- Other Festival Days
- A Funeral
- A Roman Name
- Patricians and Plebeians
- Patron and Client
- Freed People
- The Seven Hills
- The Sabine Women
- Numa
- Camillus
- Coriolanus
- Scipio Africanus
- The Gracchi
- Spartacus
- The Etruscans
- The Gauls
- The Carthaginians
- The Greeks
- Caesar
- Cicero
- Livy
- Nepos
- Pliny the Younger
- Tacitus
- Suetonius
- Vergil
- Ovid
- Catullus
- Horace
- Elegiac Poets
- Plautus and Terence
- Juvenal and Martial
- Homer
- Sappho
- Pietas
- Gravitas
- Virtus
- Fides
- Dignitas
- Auctoritas
- Mos maiorum
- Humanitas
- Stoic thought
- Epicurean thought
Derivatives and mottoes
- Derivatives, prefixes, and suffixes
- Latin mottoes and abbreviations
- Ad astra
- Per aspera ad astra
- Tempus fugit
- Carpe diem
- Cogito, ergo sum
- In medias res
- Veni, vidi, vici
- Amor vincit omnia
- Verba volant, scripta manent
- Acta non verba
- Bona fide
- Scientia potentia est
- Virtus et scientia
- Si vis pacem, para bellum
- Pax vobiscum
- Via media
- Res publica
- Ex libris
- Terra firma
- Ad lucem
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- Fortuna favet fortibus
- Dum spiro, spero
- Ad oculos
- Acta est fabula
- Alma mater
- Ante bellum
- Civis Romanus sum
- Hannibal ad portas
- Magister dixit
- Mare Nostrum
- Ora et labora
- Pax Romana
- Roma Aeterna
- Senatus Populusque Romanus
- Video et taceo
- Ab Urbe Condita
- Mea culpa
- Anno Domini
- Caput Mundi
- Cave canem
- Docere, delectare, movere
- Errare est humanum
- Fortes fortuna iuvat
- Mater Italiae Roma
- Nunc aut numquam
- Quattuor anni tempora
- Rex Regum
- Semper fidelis
- Stabat Mater
- A mari usque ad mare
- Ager Vaticanus
- Amicus in necessitate probatur
- Ars longa, vita brevis
- Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
- Capitur urbs quae totum cepit orbem
- Dictum et factum
- Ego sum via et veritas et vita
- Et tu, Brute?
- Ferrum ferro exacuitur
- Festina lente
- In hoc signo vinces
- Noscitur ex sociis
- Quid novi?
- Repetitio mater studiorum
- Alis volat propriis
- Arma cedant togae
- Deo gratias habeamus
- Ditat Deus
- Esse quam videri
- Labor omnia vincit
- Casus belli
- Et cetera
- Divide et impera
- Vae victis
- Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant
- Vade mecum
- Verbatim
- Exempli gratia
- Post scriptum
- Esto perpetua
- Crescit eundo
- Dirigo
- Excelsior
- Nil sine numine
- Quae sursum volo videre
- Qui transtulit sustinet
- Si quaeris paeninsulam amoenam, circumspice
- Virtute et armis
- Alumnus / alumna
- Floruit
- In umbra, igitur, pugnabimus
- In choro recitemus
- Dies irae, dies illa
- N.B.
- i.e.
- e.g.
- a.m.
- p.m.
- P.S.
- et al.
- vs.
- q.v.
- A.U.C.
- m.o.
- A.D.
- R.I.P.
- S.P.Q.R.
- E pluribus unum
- Annuit coeptis
- Novus ordo seclorum
- Semper paratus
- Ad astra per aspera
- Justitia omnibus
- Salus populi suprema lex esto
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Animis opibusque parati
- Montani semper liberi
- Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
- Mens sana in corpore sano
- Veritas
- Lux et veritas
- Veritas vos liberabit
- In lumine tuo videbimus lumen
- Habeas corpus
- Pro bono
- Affidavit
- Caveat emptor
- Prima facie
- Post mortem
- Tabula rasa
- Persona non grata
- Status quo
- Ad hoc
- Per se
- Vice versa
- etc.
- circa
- viz.
- cf.
- fl.
- In memoriam
- Non scholae, sed vitae
- Arma virumque cano
- Quid pro quo
- Per capita
- Magnum opus
- Sine qua non
- Ipso facto
- In loco parentis
- Classroom Latin phrases
Stories and printables
Annual Exam Study
- Annual Exam Study
- Introduction
- Beginning
- Beginning Reading
- Intermediate
- Intermediate Reading
- Advanced Prose
- Advanced Poetry
- Advanced Reading
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