Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes.Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos.
Kate's teeth are black, white lately Bell's are grown:
Bell buys her teeth, and Kate still keeps her own.
- Hodgson
Bell buys her teeth, and Kate still keeps her own.
- Hodgson
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are only two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list, plus two proper names:
emo, emere, ēmī, emptum - buy
Laecania - proper name
niveus -a -um - snowy, snow (adj.)
Thais - proper name
dēns dentis m.: tooth
habeo -ēre -uī habitum: have, hold
hic, haec, hoc: this; hōc, on this account
ille, illa, illud: that
niger nigra nigrum: black
qui, quae, quod: who, which, what; quis quid: who? what? which?
ratio -ōnis f.: method, plan, reason
sum, esse, fuī: be, exist
suus -a -um: his own, her own, its own
