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8 similar 9 docile 10 moist
d. Write and define nouns denoting place WHERE from the following
words:--
1 grain 2 deposit 3 penitent 4 arm 5 observe
e. Write and define nouns expressing diminutives of the following
nouns:--
1 part 2 globe 3 animal 4 verse 5 corpus (body)
II.
a. Write and define adjectives denoting relating to, like, or being, from
the following nouns:--
1 parent 2 nation 3 fate 4 elegy 5 demon 6 republic 7 Rome 8 Europe 9
Persia 10 presbytery 11 globule 12 luna (the moon) 13 oculus (the eye)
14 consul 15 sol (the sun) 16 planet 17 moment 18 element 19 second
20 parliament 21 honor 22 poet 23 despot 24 majesty 25 ocean 26
metal 27 nonsense 28 astronomy 29 botany 30 period 31 tragedy 32
fervor 33 splendor 34 infant 35 puer (a boy) 36 canis (a dog) 37 felis (a
cat) 38 promise 39 access 40 transit
b. Write and define adjectives denoting abounding in, having the
quality of, from the following nouns:--
1 passion 2 temper 3 oper- (work) 4 fortune 5 popul- (people) 6
affection 7 aqua- (water) 8 verb (a word) 9 beauty 10 courage 11 plenty
12 envy 13 victory 14 joy 15 globe
c. Write and define adjectives denoting that may be, or having the
power, from the following verbs:--
1 blame 2 allow 3 move 4 admit (miss-) 5 collect 6 abuse 7 aud- (hear)

8 divide (vis-) 9 vary 10 ara- (plough)
Write and define the following adjectives denoting--
(causing or producing) 1 terror, 2 sopor- (sleep), 3 flor (a flower), 4
pestis (a plague); (having the quality of) 5 farina (meal), 6 crust, 7
argilla (clay), (becoming), 8 effervesce.
III.
Write and define verbs denoting to make, render, or perform the act of,
from the following words:--
1 authentic 2 person 3 captive 4 anima (life) 5 melior (better) 6 ample 7
just 8 sanctus (holy) 9 pan 10 false 11 facilis (easy) 12 magnus(great)
13 equal 14 fertile 15 legal
III.--DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATIN DERIVATIVES.
1. A LATIN PRIMITIVE, or root, is a Latin word from which a certain
number of English derivative words is formed. Thus the Latin verb
du'cere, to draw or lead, is a Latin primitive or root, and from it are
formed educe, education, deduction, ductile, reproductive, and several
hundred other English words.
2. LATIN ROOTS consist chiefly of verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
3. ENGLISH DERIVATIVES from Latin words are generally formed
not from the root itself but from a part of the root called the radical.
Thus, in the word "education," the root-word is ducere, but the radical
is DUC- (education = e + DUC + ate + ion).
4. A RADICAL is a word or a part of a word used in forming English
derivatives.
5. Sometimes several radicals from the same root-word are used, the
different radicals being taken from different grammatical forms of the
root-word.

6. VERB-RADICALS are formed principally from two parts of the
verb,--the first person singular of the present indicative, and a part
called the supine, which is a verbal noun corresponding to the English
infinitive in -ing. Thus:--
1st pers. sing. pres. ind. duco (I draw) Root DUC- Derivative educe
Supine ductum (drawing, or to draw) Root DUCT- Derivative ductile
I. In giving a Latin verb-primitive in this book three "principal parts" of
the verb will be given, namely: (1) The present infinitive, (2) the first
person singular of the present indicative, and (3) the supine--the second
and the third parts because from them radicals are obtained, and the
infinitive because this is the part used in naming a verb in a general
way. Thus as we say that loved, loving, etc., are parts of the verb "to
love," so we say that a'mo (present ind.) and ama'tum (supine) are parts
of the verb ama're.
II. It should be noted that it is incorrect to translate amo, amatum, by
"to love," since neither of these words is in the infinitive mood, which
is amare. The indication of the Latin infinitive will be found of great
utility, as it is the part by which a Latin verb is referred to in the
Dictionary.
7. NOUN-RADICALS and ADJECTIVE RADICALS are formed from
the nominative and from the genitive (or possessive) case of words
belonging to these parts of speech. Thus:--
NOM. CASE. ROOT. DERIVATIVE. iter (a journey) ITER-. reiterate
GEN. CASE. ROOT DERIVATIVE. itineris (of a journey) ITINER-
itinerant felicis (nom. felix, happy) FELIC- felicity
NOTE.--These explanations of the mode of forming radicals are given
by way of general information; but this book presupposes and requires
no knowledge of Latin, since in every group of English derivatives
from Latin, not only the root-words in their several parts, but the
radicals