A | B |
aficionado | (from affect) Latin-ad=to+facere-to do; also, 1845 Spanish-devotee of bullfighting |
browbeat | Old English-brow + beaton=beat-to beat over the head |
commensurate | Latin-com=tomorrow + mensura = measure |
diaphanous | Greek-dia=through + pas = all |
emolument | Latin-e = out + molure + soften |
foray | Old French-forrer + to forage |
genre | Latin-genus = kind (type) |
homily | Greek-homuos = assembly |
immure | Latin-in + murus = wall |
insouciant | French-in = not + soucer = to care |
matrix | Latin-mater = mother |
obsequies | Latin-obsequim = compliance (substituted for exsequide - funeral) |
panache | Fr & Latin - pinna = feather |
persona | Latin-person |
Phillipic | Greek-phillippos = Macedonian King denounced by Demosthenes |
prurient | Latin - sacer = sacred + sanctus = holy |
systemic | Greek-syn = together + thistanal - to set |
tendentrous | Greek - tendez = tendency |
vicissitude | Latin - vicis = a turn |