Pend- is the Latin root of the English verb "pondered." The English active past tense ultimately traces back to the Latin noun pondus ("weight," from the root ponder-), the verb pendere ("to hang," "to suspend," "to weigh" and, figuratively, "to ponder") and the root pend- ("hang"). The pronunciation will be "pend" in Church and classical Latin.
Because if you put your finger over the ending of the latin word, it normally sounds or looks like the word.
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the English word, 'ponder' derives from the Latin word 'ponderare' meaning to weigh or consider
to think over,
The Latin root for the English adjective 'ostentatious' is ostendere. The word in Latin is a verb. It means 'to display, to show'.
The root of 'educate' is the Latin word "educare," which means to lead out, to train, or to instruct.
The source of the English word "vigil" is the Latin verb vigilare, "to remain awake".
Carry is the meaning of the root syllable 'port-'. An example of a Latin derivative is the verb 'portare', which is Latin for 'to carry'. An example of an English derivative is the adjective 'portable', which means 'easily carried'.
"Recklessness" has no Latin root; it is constructed entirely of native English parts. ("Reck" is a verb meaning "to care about; to be cautious", which is by now nearly obsolete.)
The Latin root "acu-" indicates sharpness, from the verb acuare "to sharpen" and the noun acus "needle".
The root syllable 'dic-' in English often relates to the concept of saying or showing something, as seen in words like "dictate" and "dictionary." It comes from the Latin verb "dicere," meaning "to say."
"Steward" is the English equivalent when the name "Spencer" is translated from its Latin root. The surname traces its origins back to the Latin verb dispēnsāre ("to dispense," "to distribute," "to manage"). Alternate English equivalents will include "dispenser," "distributor" or "manager" according to context.
The root word "solu" means to loosen or release. It is commonly found in words related to solutions, like "dissolve," where a substance breaks down and disperses in a solvent.
To name is the root meaning of the verb 'to nominate'. The verb in English is a Latin derivative. The word that it comes from is the neuter gender noun 'nomen', which is Latin for 'name'.
Ger- is the Latin root of 'gerund'. A Latin derivative of the Latin root syllable is the infinitive 'gerere', which means 'to carry about'. An English derivative, by way of the preceding Latin derivative, is the noun 'gerund'.
One equivalent of the English verb 'to lean' is the Latin verb inclinare, which means 'to bend, incline'; or 'to incline, take a turn, verge'. Another equivalent is the verb inniti, which means 'to lean or rest upon, support oneself by'. And yet another is the verb propendere, which means 'to hang down'; or 'to be favorable towards or inclined to'.