Latin Derivatives II

1. Latin Derivatives II Reading 7 / Ms. Kelly Verba Ad Origine: Vocabulary from its origin

2. Latin Derivatives II • Port, portat • Prim • Reg • Rupt • Sanct • Scrib, script • Seg, sect • Sequ, secut • Sign • Sol • Son • Spec, spect • Spir • Tempor • Terra • Tort • Urb • Vac • Vit, viv • Voc, vocat

3. 2.1 port, portat: carry 2.2 prim: first Derivatives: primal, primary, primate, primitive, primrose The first or top statesperson in England is the ______ Minister. We first went to a _______ school, and our first book was a _______er. Breathing through your nose is wise, _________ly (mainly) because it keeps your mouth shut. Derivatives: deport, export, import, portable, portfolio, rapport, support • One can easily trans____ a _____able typewriter or a _______io (briefcase). • To make a portage between lakes means (a) to carry gear, (b) to stop for lunch. • Your de______ment is your behavior or way of carrying yourself

4. 2.3 reg: rule 2.4 rupt: break Derivatives: corrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, rupture Your breaking into our conversation; please don’t in___________ us. You need to call the utility company before you dig in your yard so that you don’t ______re a water or gas line. Hecklers often dis________ rallies and speeches. Derivatives: irregular, regal, regalia, regent, regime, region, regular • A soldier must obey an army regulation because the reg in regulation means _____. • In 1649 King Charles I was decapitated, an act of ______ideas ir________ as it was barbaric. • My doctor ordered me to follow a ______men of tasteless food and hard exercise.

5. 2.5 sanct: holy 2.6 scrib, script: write Derivatives: ascribe, describe, inscribe, manuscript, nondescript, prescribe An afterthought written at the end of a letter is a p_________________. An army draft, or enrollment, is known as con___________. A nondescript dog is (a) a very individual type, (b) hardly individual enough to be written about. Derivatives: sanctify, sanction, sanctity, sanctuary • The Normandy beach is holy ground, ________ied by the blood of American soldiers. • Slavery? How can any nation __________n (approve of) it?

6. 2.7 seg, sect: cut 2.8 sequ, secut: follow Derivatives: sequence, sequel, subsequent, execution, executive, persecute, obsequies Tom Sawyer was a success, and sub____________ Mark Twain wrote a ______el about Huck Finn. The Glenville-Emmons football team had lost ten con__________ homecoming games before Friday’s win. Derivatives: dissect, intersection, section, segment, trisect • Our streets cut across one another, so let’s meet where they int___________. • In biology class, the main lab was the _________ion of a fetal pig.

7. 2.9 sign: sign 2.10 sol: alone Derivatives: desolation, isolate, soliloquy, solitaire, solitary, solo Boomer sat alone playing _________re. The violent prisoner was put in __________y confinement. Macbeth was now the ___echaracter on stage. As though thinking aloud, he began his ____________y. Derivatives: assign, consign, design, designate, signal, significant, signify • Sign the check with your own _________ture. • Countries that have signed a treaty are [secessionist / signatory] nations.

8. 2.11son: sound 2.12spec, spect: look Derivatives: inspect, introspection, perspective, respect, retrospect, spectacle To be cautions and look around before acting is to be [circumspect / circumscript]. Looking back, he saw things in ret________, which gave him a different per__________ of his present situation. Derivatives: assonance, resonance, sonar, sonic, sonnet, sonorous • The plane burst through the sound barrier, letting out a _______ boom, and accelerated to sup__________ (faster than sound) speeds. • We located the sunken ship by means of a sound-wave apparatus called ____ar.

9. 2.13 spir, spirat: breathe 2.14 tempor: time Derivatives: contemporary, tempo, temporal, temporary To be chairperson pro tem means “for the _______ being,” or _______________ily. To delay, or consume, time by needless discussions is to [temporize / expedite]. Parade music has a brisk ______o. Derivatives: aspire, conspire, expire, inspire, perspire, respiration, spirit • To breathe through the lungs is called res_______________; to breathe – or seep – through the skin is per_______________. • The zoological term for a whale’s breathing hole is [spiracle / oracle]. • Poetic inspiration was originally thought to be (a) a breathing of a divine influence, (b) the product of indigestion.

10. 2.15 terra: earth 2.16 tort: twist Derivatives: contortion, distort, tortoise, torture Scowls will dis____ your face, so smile. The acrobat twisted into an odd con_________. Twisting the limbs to encourage confessions or religious conversion was a type of medieval _______re. Derivatives: terrace, terra cotta, terrestrial, extraterrestrial, territory • Unglazed, red-brown earthenware is known as _____ cotta. • Terrain has to do with (a) land surfaces (b) ammunition. • The earth’s land as distinct from water is [global / terrestrial].

11. 2.17 urb: city 2.18 vac: empty Derivatives: evacuate, vacancy, vacant, vacation, vacuum Floods and other storms make us e_______ our homes. As soon as the landlord has a _________y, he’ll rent us the _______tapartment. Derivatives: suburban, suburbs, urban, urbane, urbanite, urbanize • To urbanize a district is to make it become like a [city / farm]. • Busses that travel between cities are inter________. • On the outskirts of the cities lie the [subways / suburbs].

12. 2.19 vit, viv: life 2.20 voc, vocat: call Derivatives: advocate, convocation, evoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, vocabulary, vocal, vocation A calling together of students to assembly is a [convocation / convection]. Your career job, or calling, is your ________ion. At the beginning of his epic The Odyssey, the poet Homer [invokes / inspires] the gods. Derivatives: convivial, revive, vital, vitality, vitamin, vivacious, vivid • Flo and Moe love food, friends and life. In other words, they’re con_________ people. • My toddler is a bundle of ____ity(energy). • Artists often have very _____id imaginations.

13. Review Awrite the meaning of each boldface Latin root • Portable • Sanctuary • Regulation • Eruption • Primitive • Bisect • Insignia • Isolation • Consecutive • Inscribe

14. Review Bwrite the meaning of each boldface Latin root • Supersonic • Inspire • Perspective • Contemporary • Territory • Distortion • Irrevocable • Devitalized • Vacuum • Suburban