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.

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