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Latin · Chapter 8 · Lesson 20 · Vocabulary

Song: Adeste fideles

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Adeste fideles

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Lyrics

Versus 1

, triumphantes;

, Bethlehem;

;

adoremus,

adoremus,

adoremus .

Versus 2

En grege , humiles cunas

pastores approperant;

ovanti festinemus;

adoremus,

adoremus,

adoremus .

Comprehension drill

4 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Verse one and the melody are by John Francis Wade (c. 1711-1786), from his manuscripts of the 1740s and Cantus Diversi (1751); the shepherd verse was added in 1794 by Étienne Borderies (1764-1832). Transcribed from the 1920 Army and Navy Hymnal scan, with its three obvious printing slips corrected. We print the first two of its four verses. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

Lesson 20 of 23 in this chapter

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