Latin Lesson #237: Sayings about the day

The focus for today's lesson is more practice with 5th-declension nouns, using the word dies , "day," one of the most commonly used 5th-declension nouns. Latin dies is the root of English " diurnal " (as opposed to "nocturnal") and " diary ." It also gives us English " journal ," " journey " and " adjourn . " You can see Latin dies in English " dismal ," which comes from dies mali , "evil days."…