Hilare Festum Nativitas Christi

Grade 10

Latin Christmas Card assignment:

• All students are to complete two Christmas cards using greetings written in Latin.
• All cards will contain at least two Latin greetings.
• You will be marked on the following criteria:

1. creativity
2. effort
3. presentation
4. participation

The following phrases may be used in your cards:

Hilare Festum Nativitas Christi ---- Merry Christmas

Felicem Annum Novum--- Happy New Year.

Fortuna tecum sit per Annum Novum! ---- May fortune be with you through the New Year

Omnia Optima Festo Nativitas Christi et Felici Anno Novo!--- All the best for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Gaudium Mundo--- Joy to the World

Tranquilla nox --- silent night

Procul in Praesaepi--- away in a Manger

Tinniat tintinnabulum--- jingle bells

You can use the following as well:

tu optimum amicum es (male)- tu optimam amicam es (female). – you are my best friend

tu amo—I love you.

amor et basia--- love and kisses

e meo corde—from my heart

ad mea aviam et meum avum—to my Grandmother and Grandfather

ad matrem et patrem—to Mom and Dad

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