Prof. Buddy has designed these quizzes because he has found that even his star pupil, Paws, forgets defective and unusual words (which don't come up often). He has used Kennedy's Latin Primer and Allen & Greenough as his sources, and the order of the quizzes roughly follows those books. Allen & Greenough is available online at Dickinson College Commentaries.

The quizzes are usually group or pair sorting activities because the Prof. thinks these are most helpful. Some quizzes cover nearly all the examples of a certain type of exception, others only a few examples.

After playing you may be able to record how you did in a results table and check where (or if) you made a mistake, so scroll down to see. The letters in brackets refer to the hosting site. (ww) is wordwall, (ep) is educaplay.org and (la) is learningapps.org.

Unusual 1st & 2nd Declension Nouns: Sorting Activity (ww)

This quiz tests a range of unusual forms:

• nouns with vocative and dative singular in -i

• nouns with genitive plural in -um

• nouns ending in -er where it is part of the stem

• nouns in -er in the nominative singular only

• nouns with dative and ablative plural in -abus.

Unusual 3rd declension nouns: Help Froggie cross the pond! (ep)

This quiz tests you on various 3rd declension irregularities. There are only six questions per game so if you play again you'll get a different set of questions. If you get any wrong scroll down after playing and click report to see the right answer.

Unusual 4th & 5th decl. nouns: Help Froggie cross the pond! (ep)

This quiz asks you about gender as well as irregular forms. Even Paws gets some of these wrong occasionally. Repeat for a different mix of questions. Scroll down for a report.

3rd decl: nouns with gen. plurals which obey parisyllabic rule (easy, ww)

Nouns with the same number of syllables in the nom. and gen. single usually have -ium in the gen. plur, that is to say, they are i-stems in the plural. Nouns with one more syllable in the gen. sing. than the nom. sing. usually have -um in the gen. plural because they are consonant stems.

3rd decl: nouns with gen. plurals which break parisyllabic rule (easy, ww)

Exceptions are listed in section forty-nine of Kennedy. Parisyllabic nouns which break the rule and have -um are few and include the three 3rd decl. family words ending in -er.

Imparisyllabic words which break the rule by having -ium are nouns of one syllable like mons, urbs etc. Neuters in -al, and -ar also break the rule.

3rd decl: nouns in -um or ium, mixed (hard, ww)

This quiz combines the previous two.

3rd decl: i -stem nouns with acc. sing in -em, -im, or either (hard, ww)

There are several nouns which are attested with either -em or -im. Three words to do with physical discomfort in the mouth are -im nouns, one to do with illness is either -em or -im. Hardly a coincidence.

Nouns of more than one declension: Sorting Activity (ww)

Should be fairly explanatory. Note that such nouns usually keep the same gender. I omitted vesper which has incomplete forms in the first second (m) and third declension.

Gender of Nouns: Sorting Activity (ww)

Trees were usually feminine, many jobs were 1st dec. masculine. Kennedy et al. assume the old world context ie a scribe and a pirate were always a man.

Defective nouns from Colebourne(la)

This quiz needs a bit of work.

Match pluralia tantum or Plural Only nouns with their definitions (ep)

Just like scissors is plural, Latin has a lot of these words, although it's not always clear why they are plural only. Make sure to scroll down because there's a lot of words.

Sort Adjectives ending in -er into 2nd or 3rd Declension (la)

If 2nd declension, some keep the -er throughout, others, like aeger, only have -er in masc. sing. nom/voc. If 3rd they are -er in masc, -ris in fem. and -re in neuter nom. sing. These 3rd decl. ones are relatively late in development, as perhaps can be seen from their rather specific and obscure range of meanings. Star pupil Paws found two difficult and came up with mnemonics: acer is 3rd declension because the acer leaf has at least three points; celeber is in the same declension as its cognate celer.

Sort 3rd Declension Adjectives into groups of 1 or 2 Terminations

The Prof. has managed to squeeze nearly all the 3 termination adjectives in. The two termination adjectives nearly all end in -is in the nom. sing.

Miscellaneous Irregular Adjectives (ep)

Adjectives which don't decline, adjectives with defective stems, adjectives with irregular or missing positive, comparative or superlative forms, etc.

Compound Pronouns (ep)

Quis or qui with its many suffixes or prefixes.

Match Correlative Pronouns with Description (la)

Some overlap with the previous quiz. Especially helpful for understanding indefinites.

The Prof. hopes to create more quizzes so come back! Be sure to check out the quizzes from the other pages too. Some are about the classical world in general and hence you don't have to be a Latinist to take them, but the Maths quizzes are all in Latin.