Cap 11 Derivatives - pt 4
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SwissCaesar on November 26, 2009
Subjects:
english vocabulary, sat vocabulary, Lingua latina, orberg
Description:
English words (often on the SAT) derived from Latin words in Lingua Latina - Familia Romana, Capitulum XI.
Classes:
Latin Roots/English Vocabulary, Familia Romana Latina, Oerberg - Familia Romana, Oerberg - Familia Romana: Unit 3
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28 terms
English | Latin |
|---|---|
 constituent | One who has the right to vote at an election. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| statistician | One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| possessor | One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property. (< sedeo-to sit, settle (down), hold court, stay fixed, preside; n.) |
| palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch. (< palpito-throb, beat, pulsate; n.) |
| tangible | Perceptible by touch. (< tango-touch; border on, influence; mention; adj.) |
| judicial | Pertaining to the administration of justice. (< iubeo-order, tell; adj.) |
| sensual | Pertaining to the body or the physical senses. (< sentio-perceive, feel, experience; adj.) |
| pectoral | Pertaining to the breast or thorax. (< pectus-breast; adj.) |
| possessive | Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command. (< sedeo-to sit, settle (down), hold court, stay fixed, preside; adj.) |
| sentient | Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception. (< sentio-perceive, feel, experience; adj.) |
| existence | Possession or continuance of being. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| contingency | Possibility of happening. (< tango-touch; border on, influence; mention; n.) |
| destitute | Poverty-stricken. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; adj.) |
| sensibility | Power to perceive or feel. (< sentio-perceive, feel, experience; n.) |
| resistless | Powerless. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; adj.) |
| contiguity | Proximity. (< tango-touch; border on, influence; mention; n.) |
| judicious | Prudent. (< iubeo-order, tell; adj.) |
| restitution | Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| statesmanship | skill in managing public affairs (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| substantive | Solid. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; adj.) |
| extant | Still existing and known. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; adj.) |
| obstinacy | Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| superb | Sumptuously elegant. (< super-on (top of), above; adj.) |
| subsistence | Sustenance. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; n.) |
| irresistible | That can not be successfully withstood or opposed. (< sto-to stand, last, endure; adj.) |
| judiciary | That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice. (< iubeo-order, tell; n.) |
| edict | That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action. (< dico-to say, tell; n.) |
| maintenance | That which supports or sustains. (< manus-hand; n.) |
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