A | B |
plenteous (adj.) (plenus) | abundant, plentiful (plenus) |
plenty (noun) (plenus) | abundance |
id est (Latin expression) | that is abbreviated i.e. |
nocturne (noun)(nox, noctis) | a piece of music intended to invoke the mood of night |
nocturnal (adj.) (nox, noctis) | active at night (as flying squirrels), occurring in the night |
villain (noun) vilicus | wicked or evil person (shows how country people were thought of) |
dominion (noun) dominus | rule, control, sovereignty |
domineering (adj.) dominus | tyrranical or arrogantly bossy |
dominate (verb) dominus | to rule or control |
irascible (adj.) ira | easily made angry |
ire (noun) ira | anger |
irate (adj.) ira | very angry |
portal (noun) porta | gateway, entrance, doorway |
paternal (adj.) pater | fatherly, on the father's side of a family (as a paternal uncle) |
patronize (verb) pater | to be a patron to, to support; to treat offensively by assuming a superiority and talking down to, to condescend |
patron (noun) pater | a supporter or benefactor; a regular customer |
paternalism (noun) pater | to treat in a fatherly manner by providing for needs without giving responsibility |
paternity (noun)mater | fatherhood |
matron (noun)mater | an older married woman; a woman who supervises a public institution, such as a prison |
matriarch (noun)mater | the female head of a family |
maternal (adj.) mater | motherly, from the mother's side of the family |
Alma Mater (Latin term) | fostering mother, the school from which one graduated |
parental (adj.) (parens) | pertaining to a parent |
fraternal (adj.) (frater) | brotherly, characterized by brotherhood |
fraternity (noun) (frater) | a brotherhood |
fraternize (verb) (frater) | to associate with in a brotherly or congenial way |
sorority (noun) (soror) | sisterhood |
filial (adj.) (filia, filius) | characteristic of a son or daughter (as filial love) |
libertine (noun) (liber = free) | a person too free in morals, an immoral person |
liberal (adj.) (liber = free) | generous |
liberty (noun) (liber = free) | freedom |
virile (adj.) (vir) | manly |
virago (noun) (vir) | a pushy, boisterous woman |
triumvirate (noun) (vir) | rule of three men |
uxorial (adj.) (uxor) | befitting a wife |
uxorious (adj.) (uxor) | excessively submissive or devoted to a wife |
dictator (noun) (dico, dicere)) | one who tells others what to do with complete authority |
predict (verb) (dico) | to tell what will happen in the future |
reverberate (verb) (verbero, verberare) | reflect, repel, echo (as if beating wall and bouncing back) |
fugitive (noun) (effugio, effugere) | one who runs from the authority |
fugue (noun) effugio | a piece of music in which instruments seem to run after each other |
refuge (noun) effugio | a place of safety and protection; something to whichone has access in difficulty |
impede(verb) impedio | ("foot in") to block or hinder or interfere with |
impediment (noun) impedio, impedire | something which blocks, hinders, or interferes with |
conceal (verb) (celo, celare) | to hide |
absent (adj., verb) (absum, abesse) | not present; to refrain from attending |