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What is the latin word for this2007-11-24 21:21:41

What is the latin word for the word

"Place"

and

"Race"

I'm trying to think of a Cross Country slogan using something similar to "Carpe Diem" only, day would be either race or place. Can someone help?? And please don't be rude and say a rude word in latin that I don't understand, please give me the real word. I'm only a kid, and this is just for a t-shirt slogan. Thanks a bunch! ^-^

Answers:

Cross country race is not the gens kind... gens is like your heritage

If a word for "place" ends in -o, chances are that's a verb. If you are looking for a noun, there are other endings (and -o could possibly be one!) I think you are talking about 1st place, etc?

a foot race is a certamen cursus

or a cursus pedum

Vergil tells of a great foot race in the Aeneid, which is the book that the Romans considered to be their greatest legacy to mankind. In that book, the foot race was called "cursus rapidus" - a "fleet foot race"

First place was "primus" first

Second place was "alter"

Third place was "tertius"

I think it would be really cool to take the Latin from a famous Roman footrace for your shirt.

carpe praemium = sieze the prize

carpe cursus rapidum = sieze the fleet foot race

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No problem. Place is "situ". Not sure about race.

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Place: locus, posui, pono, positum, constituo, destituo, condo, positus, addo, statuo, punctum