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English to Latin
Translating English words into Latin. How you say and spell English language words and phrases in the Latin language.
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What is the latin root in subside and how does the root help you understand its meaning?
The Latin root in "subside" is "subsidere," which means "to sit down" or "to settle." Understanding this root helps you see that "subside" means to become less intense or active, as if settling back down into a calmer state.
What does the Latin root scala mean?
The Latin root "scala" means ladder or steps. It is often used in English to refer to a series or progression of levels or stages.
How is an English derivative related to it's Latin root?
Take the word dormitory for example. A derivative is a word that is adapted into a language, from another. The Latin word that 'dormitory' was derived from was "dormīre" meaning to sleep. A dormitory takes the "root" of the word, and is made an English word.
What does the latin root phor mean?
The Latin root "phor" means "to carry" or "to bear." It is commonly found in words related to carrying or bearing things, such as metaphor (to carry meaning beyond the literal interpretation) or dysphoria (difficulty carrying or bearing a feeling).
What is the Latin root word of the word circumference?
> Circumire; meaning to go around
I think you can take that back one more step. The English word is a combination of the preposition, 'circum,' which means 'around,' and the root of the verb 'fero (fer-), to bring. So literally, it means 'bring around' or 'a bringing around.'
There's also a Latin verb, 'circumfero,' 'I bring / carry around.'
What is the latin root word for marriage?
Its origin is the Latin word "mas" (gen. maris) which means "male, of the male sex." From that word came "maritus" (husband, lover) which replaced other Latin words for husband, like "coniunx" (husband or wife, one who is joined, yoked together) and hence the verb "maritare" (to marry, to give in marriage.)
What does Volvo the latin root word mean?
Volvo is the Latin verb meaning "I roll", "I roll over", "I cause to roll", "I turn around", "I unroll", or "I turn over in the mind (contemplate)".
What plant name came from the latin word root of the barbarian?
Firstly, the Latin for "root of the barbarians" can only be radix barbarorum or stirps barbarorum - neither have anything at all to do with rhubarb, which comes from Greek, not Latin and has a different meaning.
The idea of a Latin origin with the meaning "root of the barbarians" is utterly false and it seems to have begun with some modern child's game in the USA.
Secondly, the Romans, like all modern vegetable growers, knew perfectly well that rhubarb is not a root - carrots, radish, turnips, parsnips are root crops; rhubarb is not, since it is the stem of the plant that is eaten. Nobody would ever call rhubarb any kind of root (unless they happen to be a games designer instead of a gardener).
What does the latin root corp mean?
The Latin root "corp" means body. It is often used in words related to the physical body or physical structure.
What is the latin root for shark?
The Latin term meaning a marine shark is pristis (a feminine noun). There is also the term fraudator, a masculine noun meaning a loan shark or similar shady character.
What are the geek and Latin roots of dictate and their meaning?
'Dictate' comes from Latin dictare meaning 'keep on saying'. The Latin verb dictare is related to dicere'to say, speak'. English 'dictate' is not directly related to any Greek word.
What does the Latin root priv as in privacy mean?
The Latin root "priv" in words like "privacy" means "alone" or "single." It conveys the idea of being apart or secluded.
Umbrella in Latin means "shadow." Obviously, you can see where we derive umbrella from.
What is the Latin root word for cities?
Urbs, urbis is the latin word for city. Thus the term "urban".
What does the latin root orig mean?
The Latin root "orig" means "beginning" or "source." It is commonly seen in words related to the origin or starting point of something.
What root closely means stone?
The Latin noun for mineral stone or rock is lapis or saxum; a kidney stone is calculus; a gem-stone is gemma.
What is the latin root for arm?
It's what "are" some words with the Latin root word arm, not "is"
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What latin root word means the killing of a race or people?
The Latin root word that means the killing of a race or people is "geno," derived from the Latin word "genus" meaning race or kind. An example word using this root is genocide, which refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, ethnic, or national group.
What word is based on a Latin root meaning to suffocate or squeeze?
The word "constrict" is based on a Latin root meaning to suffocate or squeeze.
