- abesse: to be absent
- accipere: to accept
- acies: straight line
- adsum: to be near
- adventus: arrival
- agere: drive (do)
- amittere: lose
- antiquus: ancient
- auctoritas: authority
- audire: to hear
- aut: either
- avis: bird
- bibere: to drink
- canis: dog
- capere: to capture
- cedere: to move
- cena: dinner
- cibus: food
- civitas: citezenship
- clamor: noise
- clarus: clear (famous)
- cogere: collect
- committere: entrust (when used with proelium means to enter into battle.)
- conficere: to finish
- conicere: to hurl
- constituere: to decide
- contendo: to struggle
- contineo: bound
- convenire: to assemble
- cornu: horn
- cupere: to desire
- currere: to run
- cursus: course
- decimus: tenth
- defendere: defend
- deligere: to choose
- dicere: to talk
- dies: day
- discedere: to leave
- domus: home
- dormire: sleep
- ducere: lead
- edere: to eat
- eques: knight
- etiam: also
- excedere: to go out
- exercitus: army
- exitus: exit
- expellere: drive out
- facere: to make
- fenestra: window
- finitimus: neighboring
- fluctus: wave
- fugere: to flee
- gaudium: joy
- gerere: bear
- Graecia: Greece
- Helvetica: Switzerland
- hic, haec, hoc: this
- homo: man
- hortus: garden
- iacere: to throw
- ianua: door
- impedire: hinder
- impetus: attack
- incipere: to begin
- Iniuria: Injustice (wrong)
- inquis: to say
- interficere: to kill
- invenire: find
- is, ea, id: that
- iubere: to order
- iudex: judge
- labor: work
- lapis: stone
- lectus: bed (or dining couch)
- legio: legion
- lex: law
- libertas: freedom
- manus: hand
- mensa: table
- meridies: noon (midday, south)
- milia: thousands
- mittere: send
- modus: manner (mode, degree, way)
- multitudo: a lot
- munire: build (fortify)
- murus: wall
- nihil: nothing
- nonus: ninth
- nox: night
- occasus: downfall
- octavus: eighth
- officum: duty
- olim: once upon a time
- pars: part
- passus: pace
- pauci: few
- pedes: foot soldier
- pervenire: arrive
- pes: foot
- petere: seek
- ponere: put
- portus: port (harbor)
- posse: to be able
- praemium: reward
- praesidium: guard (garrison)
- primus: first
- principes: chief
- pugna: fight
- quartus: fourth
- quintus: fifth
- quod: because
- reddere: restore
- reducere: to lead back
- regere: rule
- relinquere: leave
- reliquus: remaining
- res: thing
- scribere: to write
- secundus: second
- sella: chair
- senatus: senate
- septimus: seventh
- sextus: sixth
- si: if
- Sicilia: Sicily
- spes: hope
- surgo: rise
- sustineo: to sustain
- tamen: nevertheless
- tergum: back
- tertius: third
- timor: fear
- trado: surrender (hand over)
- Troia: Troy
- usus: use (practice)
- venire: come
- vinco: conquer
- vinum: wine
- virtus: manliness (bravery, courage)