Latin Word of the Week 004 Sophōs! Euge! Macte! - Bravo! (Patreon)

Latin WotW 004

Sophōs! Euge! Macte! - Bravo!

Heus tū! Grātiās quod auscultās hoc acroāma. I’m overjoyed you’re here, and so I will teach you some ways to express delight.

Euge! This is one of the most used interjections in Latin, and yet it’s actually from Greek: εὖ γε, εὖ means “well,” and γε is an emphatic particle. Thus we can say εὖ! also in Greek and eu! in Latin too.

Sophōs! This is another such word, from the Greek σοφῶς meaning “wisely.”

Macte! This is generally vocative, such as in macte virtūte estō! “Bravo!” “Attaboy!”

For more fun interjections like this, check my video and Google Doc, linked below.

Valē multum!

Video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uQslnVOOPy8

Google Doc:

https://bit.ly/ranierilatininterjections