Transparency is an essential feature of the Latinitas Proficiency Exam, ensuring that teachers and students are never surprised by what they find on test day. Thus, we will be providing information about the LPE to help answer any questions you may have.
To help educators decide which test level is appropriate for their students in preparation for registering, we have curated a list of common Latin curricula and the equivalent LPE levels.
We are committed to keeping the LPE’s cost as low as possible so that we can assist more schools and teachers in their Latin programs. For our inaugural cohort, the LPE fees will consist of the following:
*Please note that the fees for level three exams cover the additional costs of awarding college credit through our partner institution. If proficiency sufficient to receive college credit is not demonstrated on the first attempt, a student may re-take the exam for an additional $25 fee.
Our level three test is designed as a summative assessment for a dual-enrollment (college) course. If your students do not want to receive college credit, but are adequately prepared to take the level three test, then please get in touch with us to discuss further options.
Continuing in our commitment to total transparency in testing, we are providing complete lists of the morphology and vocabulary on each level of the exam. In order to test for proficiency, the vocabulary covered on each level of the LPE is selected based on frequency of appearance in original Latin works.
Thus, the LPE vocabulary lists represent in numbered order the most common to least common words found in our source texts, ranging from Cicero to Erasmus.
The morphology (or grammar) covered on each level of the LPE also corresponds to the frequency in which each form appears in original Latin source texts. Click the button for a downloadable morphology list, or keep scrolling to see what is included on each level of the exam!
The Level One Exam will cover the following morphology:
Interjections
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Adverbs:
Positive elevation only.
Nouns:
1st Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
2nd Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
3rd Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
Personal Pronouns:
All cases in singular and plural.
Relative Pronouns:
All cases in singular and plural.
Adjectives:
Positive elevation only.
1st/2nd declension: All cases in singular and plural.
3rd declension: All cases in singular and plural.
Determinants:
All genders and cases in singular and plural.
Verbs
All four conjugations.
Present infinitives
Imperatives
Indicative mood (present tense only)
Active voice only
First, Second, and Third person singular and plural
No participles
The Level Two Exam will cover all the morphology on the Level One exam, as well as:
Adverbs:
Comparative and Superlative elevations.
Nouns:
All cases of all five declensions (including the locative case).
Adjectives:
1st/2nd declension: All cases in comparative and superlative.
3rd declension: All cases in comparative and superlative.
Verbs:
All four conjugations.
Perfective Infinitives
Active and Passive voice
Indicative mood of all tenses
Participles
No subjunctive
The Level Three Exam will cover everything on Levels One and Two, as well as:
Verbs:
All forms and uses of the subjunctive
Supines
Gerundives
Gerunds
There are some grammar forms and vocabulary that pose exceptions to the chart above for the level one test. If you are a teacher, to help us determine how you would like these exceptions to be addressed, we ask that you would fill out this very short survey. Your input will help perfect the LPE!
We are committed to keeping the LPE’s cost as low as possible so that we can assist more schools and teachers in their Latin programs. For our inaugural cohort, the LPE fees will consist of the following:
*Please note that the fees for level three exams cover the additional costs of awarding college credit through our partner institution. If proficiency sufficient to receive college credit is not demonstrated on the first attempt, a student may re-take the exam for an additional $25 fee.
Our level three test is designed as a summative assessment for a dual-enrollment (college) course. If your students do not want to receive college credit, but are adequately prepared to take the level three test, then please get in touch with us to discuss further options.
Continuing in our commitment to total transparency in testing, this week we are providing complete lists of the morphology and vocabulary on each level of the exam. In order to test for proficiency, the vocabulary covered on each level of the LPE is selected based on frequency of appearance in original Latin works.
Thus, the LPE vocabulary lists represent in numbered order the most common to least common words found in our source texts, ranging from Cicero to Erasmus. Click below for each word you can expect to see on the exam, next to its part of speech!
The morphology (or grammar) covered on each level of the LPE also corresponds to the frequency in which each form appears in original Latin source texts. Click the button for a downloadable morphology list, or keep scrolling to see what is included on each level of the exam!
The Level One Exam will cover the following morphology:
Interjections
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Adverbs:
Positive elevation only.
Nouns:
1st Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
2nd Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
3rd Declension – All cases in singular and plural.
Personal Pronouns:
All cases in singular and plural.
Relative Pronouns:
All cases in singular and plural.
Adjectives:
Positive elevation only.
1st/2nd declension: All cases in singular and plural.
3rd declension: All cases in singular and plural.
Determinants:
All genders and cases in singular and plural.
Verbs
All four conjugations.
Present infinitives
Imperatives
Indicative mood (present tense only)
Active voice only
First, Second, and Third person singular and plural
No participles
The Level Two Exam will cover all the morphology on the Level One exam, as well as:
Adverbs:
Comparative and Superlative elevations.
Nouns:
All cases of all five declensions (including the locative case).
Adjectives:
1st/2nd declension: All cases in comparative and superlative.
3rd declension: All cases in comparative and superlative.
Verbs:
All four conjugations.
Perfective Infinitives
Active and Passive voice
Indicative mood of all tenses
Participles
No subjunctive
The Level Three Exam will cover everything on Levels One and Two, as well as:
Verbs:
All forms and uses of the subjunctive
Supines
Gerundives
Gerunds
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Magistra - Introductory Latin
Magistra Annula is Associate Professor of Latin at Belmont Abbey College, coming to North Carolina after a decade at Wyoming Catholic College. She teaches Latin at the Charlotte Diocese’s new St. Joseph College Seminary in addition to her work at Belmont. Earlier in her career she studied with Fr. Reginald Foster and at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. Returning to her native California, Nancy founded SALVI in 1997 and served on its board until 2019, directing SALVI workshops (Rusticationes) around the country and abroad. She holds her PhD (2006) from UCLA.
Magister - Scholastic Theology
Pater Pelagius is a priest of the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, ordained in 2010. He holds a PhD in systematic theology from the Catholic University of America and is the translator of several Scholastic works, including On the Motive of the Incarnation, the first volume in CUA’s Early Modern Catholic Sources series, and Book 2 of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, edited by the Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine. Fr. Schrader is the author of The Shortcut to Scholastic Latin, published by the Paideia Institute Press. He has attended every Veterum Sapientia conference since its inception.
Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Owens completed licentiate studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (“the Angelicum”) with a concentration in Thomism, and is a doctoral candidate at the same university. His research investigates the question of predestination in the writings of the early Thomists. More generally, Christopher’s research interests in both philosophy and theology are focused on the preambles of faith, ontology, meta-ethics, and action theory as found principally in the Thomistic tradition, as well as in the medieval dialectic of the University of Paris. Additionally, Christopher serves on the editorial board for Philosophical News, the official journal of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, and is vice-president of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, based in Norcia, Italy.
Magister
Fr. Joseph Matlak is a priest of the Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma (Ukrainian Greek-Catholic). Born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, he studied Ancient History at King’s College London, and completed seminary studies and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He is currently finishing a doctorate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, England. He serves as administrator of Saint Basil the Great Parish in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is an instructor within the Honors College of Belmont Abbey College. He has previously worked in parishes and missions, schools, youth and young adult ministry, liturgical music, and Catholic media, among other roles.
Magister - Introductory Latin
Magister Marcus holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and a Latin Fluency Certificate from Academia Vivarium Novum, where he learned to speak Latin under Luigi Miraglia. He is currently a graduate student at Kentucky University, studying Latin under Terence Tunberg and Milena Minkova, and works as a classical languages’ instructor, Liberal Arts teacher, and editor at Instituto Hugo de São Vitor, Brazil.
Magister
Samuel Stahl earned a PhD in Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His dissertation is an annotated verse translation from Claudian’s carmina minora; his passions, both personal and professional, include Christian poetry and ecumenism. In addition to his work with VSI, he teaches ELA at a Catholic grammar school in Western New York, where he lives with his wife and two cats.
Magister
Mr. Post holds a B.A. in philosophy from St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, CA and an M.A. in Medieval Studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. His areas of study and interest include codicology and palaeography and creating medieval and classical inks and writing materials. He particularly enjoys working in his garden surrounded by plants from the classical world such as papyrus, acanthus, figs, olives and grapes which also gives him an opportunity to practice his botanical Latin. He is a lifelong resident of southern California where he has been teaching and promoting Latin since 2004 and where he resides with his wife and six children.
Magister
Kit Adderley became interested in Ancient Rome at a young age, and following a particularly interesting and formative Roman History class in high school, decided to study Classics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. While studying and in subsequent years, Kit was blessed to attend many spoken Latin programs both in the United States and in Rome. Kit has taught Latin for 10 years at the high school and middle school level in Texas and Minnesota, most recently designing and implementing a spoken Latin program for high school that enjoyed tremendous success. Kit currently works in the finance industry but continues to love Latin and the classical world and is excited to work with Veterum Sapientia in bringing that knowledge to others.
Coordinator for Marketing and Course Development
Matthew Ratcliff is a graduate from Belmont Abbey College, where he fell in love with Latin while studying under Nancy Llewellyn and Gregory DiPippo, and where he encountered the natural method for the first time. He has previously taught for Aquinas Learning Center in Charlotte for the 2023-2024 academic year. Matthew firmly believes that everyone can learn Latin well. He loves incorporating physical movement in the classroom and is excited to share the joy of the language with every class!
Director of Academic Development, Assistant to the Dean, Magister - Introductory Latin
Magister Gregorius was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he attended a high school which offered an excellent Latin program. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he studied Classical Languages and Literature, and the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome, where he studied the Fathers of the Church. For 23 years, he worked as a tour guide in Rome, and for the last 15 years, he has been a regular contributor (and for 10 years editor) to the New Liturgical Movement website.
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