Midterm Review: Latin Roots/Words
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100 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 loc, locu | place |
| duc, duct | lead |
| magn- | great; large |
| verb | word |
| vir | man |
| pauci- | few |
| virtu | strength; virtue |
| cord | heart |
| mand, mend | put in hands of; entrust; order |
| ting, tang, tag, tig, tact | touch |
| ferr- | iron |
| palp | feel; touch |
| sci | know |
| sag | wise |
| far | divine law |
| fing, fig, fict | form; shape; invent; imagine |
| sens, sent | feel; be aware |
| par, pair, peer | equal |
| mord, mors | bite |
| somn | sleep; dream |
| pet, petul | seek; attack |
| preca | price; value |
| merc | trade |
| mir | wonder |
| arbitr | judge; consider |
| feder | league; alliance; bond |
| vacill | waver |
| doc, doct | teach |
| oss | bone |
| litig | dispute; quarrel; sue |
| lig | bind; choose; gather |
| stimul | goad; rouse |
| ambul | walk |
| grad, gred, gress | step |
| vag | wander |
| curr, curs, corr, cours | run |
| fug, fugit | flee |
| jace | lie |
| clin, clive | lean; incline; slope |
| mitt, miss, mise | send; let go |
| ven, vent | come |
| pend, pens, pond | weigh |
| tempt, tent | try out; test |
| her, hers | stick; cling |
| tenu | thin |
| verg | tend toward; bend |
| mov, mob, mot | move |
| late | hide |
| pugn, pug | fight; fist |
| scrib, script | write |
| many-footed | multiped |
| to say before | predict |
| good kind | benign |
| not separate | indivisible |
| truthfulness | veracity |
| all-knowing | omniscient |
| foolish | fatuous |
| person who has strength/virtue | virtuoso |
| eating, devouring all | omnivorous |
| scarcity, "fewness" | paucity |
| great-souled or spirited | magnanimous |
| bearing alive | viviparous |
| complaining | querulous |
| relating to the heart (friendly) | cordial |
| relating to the treasury | fiscal |
| faithfulness | fidelity |
| an order | jurisdiction |
| doubtful or full of doubt | dubious |
| golden | aureate |
| a writing on | inscription |
| relating to pricking | pungent |
| something invented or imagined | fiction |
| not tasty (tasteless) | insipid |
| bony | osseous |
| thin (insignificant) | tenuous |
| a pricking | puncture |
| related to running | cursory |
| a thing that is decreed | statute |
| sticking together | cohesive |
| to or for one's own | appropriate |
| to make near together | assemble |
| fastened before | prefix |
| no death | immortal |
| an equal | peer |
| attacking (verbally) | petulant |
| complaining (habitually) | querulous |
| to step apart | digress |
| full of value | precious |
| trust | credit |
| to rouse | stimulate |
| related to bending apart | divergent |
| a fleeing one | fugitive |
| related to spreading out | expansive |
| a sleepwalker | somnambulist |
| to carry across | translate |
| a thing which is thrown before | projectile |
| to cause to stand back | resist |
| to come together | convene |
| mixed | miscellaneous |
| full of weight (heavy, important) | ponderous |
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