Chapter 2: The Latin Noun (Declensions 1 & 2)
§17. Chapter 2: Exercises
1. Underline the base of these nouns (e.g., FAMA):
TABULA, GRATIA, AQUA, MODUS, RADIUS, FATUM, VERBUM, OFFICIUM.
2. If you can identify the Latin base at the heart of a long English word, the meaning of that word will often be more precisely understood. Underline the noun base (e.g., INFORMALITY):
INGLORIOUS, PREVIOUS, GRANULAR, DEIFICATION, VULGARITY, PREDETERMINATION, COLLOCATION, INNUMERABLE, ASSIGNMENT, VITIATE.
3. Using the numerical scheme in §14, describe these changes in form:
| a. | L scientia | (“knowledge”) | > E science | 3b |
| b. | L matrona | (“married woman”) | > E matron | __________ |
| c. | L prodigium | (“omen,” “potent” | > E prodigy | __________ |
| d. | L lacuna | (“hole,” “pond”) | > E lagoon | __________ |
| e. | L nota | (“mark”) | > E note | __________ |
| f. | L digitus | (“finger,” “toe”) | > E digit | __________ |
| g. | L folium | (“leaf”) | > E foil | __________ |
| h. | L lucrum | (“gain”) | > E lucre | __________ |
| i. | L spatium | (“space”) | > E space | __________ |
| j. | L norma | (“rule”) | > E norm | __________ |
4. What label might you apply to the semantic change of Latin verbum to English verb? ___________________ Of Latin animus to English animus? ___________________
5. For each of the following English words, find an English doublet—if possible, one that more closely resembles the Latin source-word:
a.crown________________d.prize________________
b.genie________________e.card________________
c.spectre________________f.foil_________________
For Key to Exercises (Latin), see Appendix I.