Aeneid Vocab

• accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptus


  receive, accept, learn hear conceive
• Acestes, Acestae


  King in Sicily
• actus, acta, acum


  perfect passive participle of agere
• adsum, adesse, adfui


  be present, assist
• aequor, aequoris


  sea, waves
• age, agite


  imperative of agere
• agmen, agminis


  army, line, troop; course
• ago, agere, egi, actus


  lead, drive, do, treat, pass, conduct
• ajo, ais, ait; ajunt


  say, speak, assert
• alius, alia, aliud


  other, another, else
• altus, alta, altum


  high, lofty, deep
• amor, amoris


  love, desire, passion
• Anchises, Anchisae


  Aeneas' father
• anima, animae


  air, breath, life, soul, shade
• animus, animi


  soul, spirit, breath, courage; anger, pride, purpose, thought
• ante


  before
• antiquus, antiqua, antiquum


  ancient, old, aged, former, of olden times, time-honored
• ara, arae


  altar
• ardeo, ardere, arsi, arsus


  burn, be eager
• arma, armorum


  arms, equipment, tools
• arvum, arvi


  plowed land, field, region
• arx, arcis


  citadel, fort, height, hill
• at, ast


  but, yet, however, at least
• ater, atra, atrum


  black, gloomy, deadly
• audio, audire, audivi, auditus


  hear (of), hearken
• aura, aurae


  breeze, air; favor; light
• aurum, auri


  gold
• aut


  or, either
• bellum, belli


  war, combat, fight
• caelum, caeli


  sky, heaven, weather
• campus, campi


  plain, field, level surface
• capio, capere, cepi, captus


  take, seize, catch, captivate, deceive, occupy
• caput, capitis


  head, summit, life, person
• casus, casus


  chance, misfortune, fall
• cerno, cernere, crevi, cretus


  discern, perceive, understand, decide, fight
• circum


  around, about, at, near
• clamor, clamoris


  shout, roar, applause
• classis, classis


  fleet, army, ship
• comes, comitis


  comrade, follower
• conjunx, conjugis


  husband, wife