Chapter 14: Compound Words in Latin

§96. Chapter 14: Exercises

As a final workout in the Latin section of the course, here is a series of word analyses. You may agree that the toughest part of this procedure can be just getting the hyphens in the right places; once you’ve identified the components, it is often a routine task to explain them. This time, therefore, let’s hyphenate each Latin etymon. For example,

e.g. artificiality

< L art-i-fic-i-al-itas: art– (ars, artis, “skill”) –i– (connecting vowel) –fic– (facere, “make”) –i– (noun suffix –ium) adj. suffix  –alis (“pertaining to”) noun suffix –itas

 

1. transfusion

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2. equivocal

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3. compulsive

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4. accident

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5. inexplicable

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6. circulatory

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7. pertinacity

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8. insignificance

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9. circumnavigator

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10. animadversion

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For Key to Exercises (Latin), see Appendix I.

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