"Ubi est ludus?"

Translation: Where is the school?

[bobafett131]

"Lūdus" can also refer to a "game"

[garpike]

I have just been reporting exactly that on all the 'ludus' sentences I've come across in this skill.

[Elin.7-1]

I restrained myself from mentioning Ludo....

[linguistkris]

Thank you, I wandered in to ask exactly that. :)
So did they miss the macron on "school" (or well, omitted it as they don't seem to be using macrons at all here), or are there two separate words with different vowel length?

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Macrons are optional, and it's more a help for us to study, than a real part of the language. But it's an important help, and some Latin texts do have the macrons and other diacritics (apexes).

I really hope they'll add the macrons later, as it's the only mean for us to be able to speak in Latin, not only read it.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

French adjective "ludique" = relative to the games, or a game.
By extension, playful, recreational.

English: ludic.

[varkentje123]

That's what I thought!

[YuriZoria]

"Ludus" is pronounced as 'ludes' in the audio (an explanation for the bug report).

[Ivan351547]

You are right, I thought that I was the only one who hears badly...

[NachoDeLeon]

I thought the Latin word for "school" was "schola".

[MagistraKate]

I believe that is a later usage. Ludus is more common in classical Latin.

[YuriZoria]

Because Latin borrowed schola from Greek.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

I think in Ancient Greek, it has more the meaning of leasure. That's a weird coincidence (I think it's not a coincidence), because "schola" has the meaning of leisure in Greek, and school, or group, and "ludo" has the meaning of leisure and school too.

But why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholae

Ancient Greek "Σχολαί"
Plural of the Ancient Greek word "σχολή"(skolè)
(from which its Latin counterpart "Scholae"
derives), meaning: 'rest, leisure'

[linguistkris]

Non vitae sed ludo discimus just doesn't have the same ring to it. ;)

[PERCE_NEIGE]

What would be the translation and the source for this quote?

[linguistkris]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_scholae_sed_vitae :)
(I just changed schola into ludus, did I get the declension wrong?)

[Shady330]

What exactly is the educational setting that "ludus" refer to here is? as far as I know it surely isn't the much later institutional school we know today why barely started a few decades ago. Is it something on the lines of the platonic Academia?

[lingonima]

while everyone is bashing the use of the word ludos as school, i would like to point out the horrible pronunciation of the same.

[Anas276]

In which case should words be with "ubi"? As in this case.

[SuzanneNussbaum]

The conjunction "ubi" should be thought of as introducing a verb; it doesn't control nouns, in and of itself.

What's controlling the case of "ludus" (nominative) in this sentence is the verb "est" (is).

Ubi est (+ a nominative-case noun): "Where is (the ... ) ?"

Quo ambulas / curris / vadis , etc.: "Where are you walking/running/going?"

Unde venis ? "Where do you come from?"

[DanWaggone1]

what is the difference between schola and ludus, if
any?