"Duo viri domi dormiunt."

Translation: The two men sleep at home.

[david.megginson]

Ha! I got this wrong because I'm so used to seeing "Duo" as a proper noun in other exercises, and didn't pay proper attention to the verb number.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

That kind of "traps" are very good to force us to think.

[itsC14]

Two men sleep at home...mmm

[emre980TR]

I dunno man

[Gaff863622]

And they were roommates

[Sasha71526]

In Latin, would one naturally understand this as two men, each sleeping in their own home, or two men sleeping in the same house?

[RiyadNiyaz]

waggles eyebrows in Latin

[SGuthrie0]

Cognate of "vir" is "virile"

[Athalawulfaz]

Also with English 'wer' as in 'Werewolf'.

The Latin shortened the nominative form from 'virus' (Proto-Italic 'wiros') to 'vir', but it is cognate to Proto-Germanic 'weraz', whence English 'wer' and German 'Wehr'.

[clyde970754]

I left off the definite article. How is that wrong when there is no definite article in Latin?

[lfd]

¿Why not ‘in the home’?

[PERCE_NEIGE]

I think it's idiomatic in English "in the home" (implied in my/our home) -> "at home".

"In the home" could be used in English, but with a different meaning, meaning "in the house" E.g: "I left my keys in the home" = inside the house.

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/39798/should-i-say-in-the-home-or-at-home

According to the example they gave on Stackexchange, "in the home" could be also used here, in this sentence. (They sleep in the house, inside the house.)
But I really think that "domi" is always best translated with "at home".

[suhridmulay]

I think house refers to the physical structure while home can be a general area. I am not sure though.