act.
action of blowing air to remove or send something away – flāre
come together – convenire
do as you please (speak off the cuff) – ad lib
go – i
go in or come in – intrare
going out – egress
make a similar thing – fac simile
to appear, to be visible, to seem – parere (long ‘a’, long ‘e’)
to attack – oppugno, oppugnare
to begin your speech without introduction or warning up to the subject – ex abrupto
to believe or trust – credo, credere, credidi, creditum
to call – voco, vocare
to carry – porto, portare
to carry back – refero, referre, retuli (rettuli), relatum.
to climb – ascendo, ascendere
to conquer – vinco, vincere
to crack or burst – crepo
to defend – defendo, defendere
to do this thing (used today in reference to something that is improvised and done on the spot) – ad hoc
to drive, or operate – agere – the infinitive of “agō”
to eat – edo, edere
to endure – patior, pati, passus sum – a deponent meaning -> if you have compassion for someone you endure things together with them. Patience comes from the first principle part
to estimate/imagine – coniectare -> coniectú – guess!
to exercise – exercerse
to fall – cado, cadere, cecidi, cesurus -> a few other English words from this verb are “casual”, “occasion” (last principle part) and “decident”
to favour – faveo, favere, favi, faviturus
to feel or perceive – sentio, sentire, sensi, sensum -> derivatives are ‘to sense’ and ‘sensible’.
to feel or think – sent or sens
to fight – pugno, pugnare
to grind in a mill – molo, molere, mului, molitum
to have – habeo, habere, habui, habitum
to kill – interficio, interficere, interfeci, interfectum.
to lead or bring – duco, ducere, duxi, ductum -> duct, duchess, ductile, conductor are some of its derivitaves.
to make, do – facio, facere, feci, factus
to make soft – mollio, mollire, mollitus sum
to obey or attend to – parere (long ‘a’, short ‘e’)
to prepare – paro, parare, paravi, paratum
to produce, to bring forth, to give birth to – parere (short ‘a’, short ‘e’)
to push – trud or trus -> protrude, protrusion, intrude
to remain – maneo, manere, mansi, mansum.
to return or give back – reddere
to rule – rego, regere, rexi, rectum -> Derivitaves are region, regal, royal and regent.
to run – curro, currere
to see – videre
to seize – rapere
to send – mitto, mitteret
to speak – loqu or locut -> elocution, interloquter, colloquial
to stay awake all night – pervigilō, pervigilāre
to step up – gradior, gradi, grassus sum
to stick – haereo, haerere, haesi, haesurus
to take, seize, or capture – capio, capere, cepi, captum -> capture, captive, and captivate are derivitaves.
to turn – vert or vers -> vertigo, reverse, conversion
to whistle – sibilare
turn over – vertere
using your strength in an unpleasant way against {somebody;} using violence – molestare
wander – palor
went or crossed – transire
we’re going – imus
animalium.
a flock – greg -> gregarious, egregious, segregation
bats – vespertiliones – the standard, classical Latin word. it is the plural, nominative case, derived from “vesper” meaning “evening”. “ad Litum” means “at the shore” or “to the shore.”
bestiola – a small beast -> its diminutive form lends it an affectionate tone as opposed to a clinical/anthropological one
claws” or talons – ungulae
cow – vacca -> when smallpox was still a major epidemic, milkmaids never got it. Jenner realized that they had been infected with a variant of smallpox, cowpox from the cows. Their immune system had then recognized the disease and provided protection against both the disease and its cousin, smallpox. Now we can get small doses of infections to introduce them to our immune systems. These are vaccinations
a fly – musca, muscae
frog – ranunculus
moo – mugitu
mouse – ‘mus, muris -> muscle’ is derived from mus. this may seem odd but it does make sense. if you have strong muscles and you flex your arm a little bump comes up that looks like a mouse
nest – nidus
puppy or young dog – cattulus
worms – vermes
emotions.
happy – felicem – the accusative singular modifier derived from the adjective fēlīx
happy – laeta
sad – tristis, triste
to fear – metuere
was afraid – metuebat
schola
books – libri
chronica – chronicles
dark chamber (a device that used to be used in drawing) – camera obscura
diary – commentarii (or diarium)
from the books – ex libris
in the same place (it is used in footnotes and bibliographies to refer to the source cited in the previous entry) – ibid(em)
letter – littera, litterae (f.)
opinion expressed in a statement – sententia
read – legitr
root – radix
school – schola
scholarly place (classroom) – locus scholasticus
songs of the night – noctis carmina
songs or poems – carmina
tablet is tabula, tabulae (f.)
tales or stories – fabulae
‘Non scholae sed vitae discimus’ is also a quotation from Seneca the Younger.(106th letter). What view on education does it express?
we learn by teaching (We do not learn for school, but for life) – docendo discimus
With ‘adult’ passages removed’ (book label) ‘in usum delphini’
with highest honour – summa cum laude
words – verba
loco.
all the way and as far is – usque
around the world becomes the phrase circum orbem (where orbem is the accusative form of orbis, meaning “world” or “globe”)
book of numbers or counting book – liber numerorum
compass – acus nauticaf
elsewhere – alibi
farm – fabrica
far off, distant, or faraway – procul
here – hic
island – insula
polarīs – the adjective meaning belonging to the pole (north or south)
road – via, viae
sailed or voyaged – navigavit (from navigare)
way, in the sense of a path or road – viam
nature.
cloudy – nublado
sea – mare
willow – salix
wind – ventus
populus.
man – homo
men – hominis
queen – regina
size.
big or great – magna
excessive, too many, overly abundant – nimiae
half – dimidium
little – parvus
out of many, one – e pluribus unum
the smallest, littlest – minima
very small, tiny, little, insignificant, or petty, often used to describe things of a miniature scale or, contemptuously, someone who is puny or mean-spirited – pusillus -> In the Latin version of the Bible, Christ calls his followers “only a small flock” (pusillus grex).
never – nunquam
none – nulli
one – unus
one hundred – centum
second – secundus
the numeral for five – quinque
13 – tredicem
twenty thousand – viginti milia
going on forever – ad infinitum
how are you – quid agis
how as in “in what way” – quomodo
how big or how much – quantus -a -um
whatever may happen or no matter what occurs – quidquid accidat
where is – ubi est
which for what (tit for tat) – quid pro quo
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