Robins vocab 2006 C
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- Humanus
- <L Human being
- Humane
- Having the worthy qualities of human beings
- Humanism
- A Philosophy which humans are the most important
- Humanities
- Branches ofknowledge than pretain to human culture and fine arts
- Anthropos
- <G human being, man
- Anthropology
- The scientific study of human origins
- Misanthrop
- One who hates humans
- Homi, Hominus
- <L Man
- Homicide
- the killing of one person by another or a person who kills another
- Vir
- <L man
- Virile
- Having certon charactoristics associated with man such as strength
- Gyne
- <G Women
- Gynecology
- The branch of madicine associated with womens reproductive system
- Femina
- <L woman
- Feminism
- The belief in male/female equality
- Feminist
- One who believes in men/women equality
- Autos
- <G self
- Autocrat
-
A ruler with absolute power
An arrogent dominating person - Automaton
- A robot or one who acts like one
- Autonomy
- Being self governed or indipendant
- Autopsy
- the examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death
- Ego
- <L I
- egoism
- Conceit
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Genos,Geneos
Gens, Gentis
Genus, Gentris -
<G Race, family
<L Race, clan, family
<L Birth, race, clan, tribe, kind - Genealogy
- A record of decent from ones ancestors, the study of ones ancestors
- Genocide
- The planned anniolation of a race, or political or cultural group
- Genre
- A class of fine art or litrature
- Genteel
- Well mannered, refined, polite
- Gentry
- Aristocratic or well bred people
- Hetrogenous
- Having completely unrelated parts
- Homogenus
- Having the same parts
- Gigno Gignere Genui Genitum
- <L to beget, to bear, to bring forth
- Congenital
- Existing at birth but not hereditary
- Engender
- to give rise to, to bring into existance
- Genesis
- a begining or origin
- Indiginous
- Native to an area
- Ingenious
- Cleverly inventive and resourceful
- Progenitor
- a direct ancestor
- Progeny
- a direct descendant
- Mater, Matris
- <L mother
- Matrix
- The surroundings in which something develops
- Matriarchy
- A society ruled by women
- Matriculate
- To register as a studant at a collage
- Pater, Patris
- <L father
- Patriarch
-
The head of a tribe
An old testament ancestor
A wise man - Patrimony
- A family inheritance
- Patronage
-
Support
Customers - Patronize
-
To go to regularly
To treat as inferior - Patronymic
- N A name derived from a maternal ancestor
- Frater, Fratris
- <L Brother
- Fraternal
- Brotherly
- Fraternize
- To be friendly with
- Avunculus, Avunculi
- <L Uncle
- Avuncular
- Like an uncle
- Famlia
- <L Family
- Familial
- having to do with family
- Uxor,Uxoris
- <L Wife
- Uxorius
- Dominated by ones wife
- Gamos
- <G Marrage
- Bigamy
- Marrage to two people
- Monogamy
- Marrage to a single person
- Puer
- <L A male child
- Puerile
- Childish, immature
- Pais Paidos
- <G Child, boy
- Orthopedics
- Branch of medicine treatind the skelatal system
- Pedagogue
- A teacher
- Pedant
- One who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than understanding
- Sum, Esse, Fui, Futurm
- <L To be
- Entity
- Something that exists independantly
- Nonentity
- Something of no importance
- Essence
-
The basic element
A concintrated substance
perfume - Morior, Mori, Mortuum
- <L To die
- Mortify
-
To shame
To dicipline oneself by denial - Mortibund
- About to die or end
- Postmortum
- An autopsy
- Thanatos
- <G death
- Euthanasia
- Mercy killing
- Nascor, Nasci, Natum
- <L To be born
- Innate
- Possessed at birth
- Naive
- Childish, immature
- Nascent
- Emerging, coming into existance
- Renaissance
-
A rebirth or renewal
A renewal of history in the 1800's -
Amo, Amare, Amavi, Amatum
Amicus -
<L To love
<L friend - Amicable
- Friendly, peacable
- Amity
- Friendship
- Enamored
- Charmed by
- Inimical
-
Harmful
Hostile - Odium
- <L Hate
- Odious
- hateful
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Philos
Phileo, Philein -
<G To love
<G To love - Bibliophile
- One who loves books
- Philander
- To engage in cassual love affairs (refers to men)
- Philanthropy
-
Goodwill to all human beings
A charitable gift or act - Phobos
- <G Fear
- Phobia
- A strong irrational fear
- Acrophobia
- Fear of hieghts
- Hydrophobia
- Fear of water
- Xenophobia
- Fear of outsiders
- Pax, Pacis
- <L peace
- Appease
- To calm, or satisfy
- Pacify
-
To calm
To end war or violence
Pacifist - Pacific
- Peaceful, calm
- Pathos
- A feeling of sympathy
- Antipathy
- A hatred or dislike
- Apathy
- Without feeling, indifferent
- Empathy
- The ability to identify with ones feelings
- Pathological
-
Refering to the study of disease
Caused by disease
Abnormal behavier - Miso, Misein
- <G To hate
- Misogamy
- Hatred of marrage
- Misogyny
- Hatred of women
- Dys
- <G Diseased, difficult, faulty, bad
- Dysentary
- Severe diarrhea
- Dyslexia
- Severe trouble reading
- Cupio, Cupere, Cupivi, Cupidum
- <L To desire
- Covet
- To crave or desire
- Cupidity
- Greed; averice
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Placeo, Placere, Placui, Placitum
Placo Placare, Placavi, PlacAtum -
<L To Please
<L To soothe - Complacent
- Smug
- Implacible
- Impossible to please
- Placid
- Showing calmness
- Placate
- To calm
- Domus
- <L House
- Domicile
- A home
- Domestic
-
Related to home
Tame
Native - Dominus
- Lord, Master
- Domain
- Territory
- Domineer
- To dominate
- Dominion
- Area of influence
- Dormio, Dormire, Dormivi, Dormitum
- <L To sleep
- Dormant
- Asleep
- Somnus
- <L Sleep
- Somnolent
-
Sleepy; drowsey
Causing sleep - Lavo, Lavare, Lavi, Lautum
- <L To wash
- Ablution
- The washing of the body as ritual purification
- Deluge
- A downpoor, a great flood
- Vestis
- <L Garment
- Divest
- To strip away, espetially a title, property, material possessions, or clothes
- Investiture
- A ceremony where one recieves authority and symbols of office
- Travesty
- An inferior immitation
- Vestament
- A garment that indicates position
- Vested
-
A concetn for personal intrest
Dressed in vestaments
Absolute - Coquo, Coquere, Coxi, Coctum
- <L To cook
- Concoct
-
To mix ingredients
To devise - Cuisene
- A charactoristic style of cooking
- Precocious
- Showing unusually urgent mental development
- Voro, Vorare, Voravi, Voratum
- To devour
- Carnivourous
- Meat meating
- Herbivourous
- plant eating
- Vouracious
-
Extremely hungery
Eager for some activity or intrest - Mel, Mellis
- <L Honey
- Melifluous
- sweet as honey
- Sal
- <L Salt
- Saline
- Having to do with salt
- Bibo, Bibere, Bibi, Bibitum
- <L To drink
- Imbibe
-
To drink
To take in - Poto, Potere, Potavi, Potum
- <L To drink
- Potable
- Fit to drink
- Potion
- A liquid for drinking (used to discribe poisen or something with magical or medical use
- Ludo, Ludere, Lusi, Lusum
- <L To play
- Allude
- to make an indirect referance to
- Collusion
- A conspiricy
- Delusion
-
A false belief or opinion held in spite of contradictory evedence
A deception - Elude
- To escape by cunning
- Caput, Captis
- <L head
- Capitalist
-
A person who has invested personal wealth in buissness
A very wealthy person - Capitulation
- Surrender, ending resistance
- Decapitate
- To cut off the head of: to behead
- Precipice
-
A very steep verticle cliff face
The edge of a dnagerous situouation - Precipitate
-
To throw down from a great hieght
To make happen suddenly or quickly - Recapitulation
-
The restatment of the main idea
A summery or precise review - Cerebrum
- <L brain
- cerebral
- Pretaining to the brain
- Cerebration
- Tha act of thinking
- Facies
- <L Face, Form Shape
- deface
- To mar or spoil the appearance of something
- Efface
-
To wipe out: to obliterate
To make oneself inconspicuous - Facade
-
The face of a building
The face of anything: espacially an artificial one. - Facet
-
One of the many sides of a cut jewel or stone
An aspact of a situouation or tooth - Frons, Frontis
- <L Front, forehead, face
- Affront
- To insult intentionally: to offend or embaress
- confront
-
To stand or come directly in front of
To face with defiance - effrontery
- Flippant or insulting boldness
- Supercilium
- <L Eyebrow
- Supercilious
- Disdainful: haughty and aloof
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Os, Oris
Oro, Orare, Oravi, Oratum -
<L mouth
<L To speak - inexorable
- Relentless, umyielding
- oracle
-
A shrine where ancient greeks consulted a god for advice or property
A Prophacy made in this shrine
A person who transmits prophacy from a deity
A person or thing regarded as able to give wide guidance - oration
- an address or formal speach
- oriface
- A mouth or vent: an opening
- Osculate
- To kiss
- Dens, Dentis
- <L Tooth
- Indentation
- A cut or notch
- Indenture
-
A written contract between 2 parties
An agreement binding an apprentice to work for a master - trident
- A long 3 pronged fork or weapon
- Odon, Odontos
- <G tooth
- orthadontist
- A specialist who corrects irregurely positioned teeth
- Gurges, Gurgetitis
- <L throat, whirlpool
- gorge
-
A deep narrow passage with rocky sides enclosed between 2 mountins
Gluttonous eating
a feeling of nausua - disgorge
-
To expell from the throat or stomach: to vomit
To discharge violently - Gargantuan
- Of imminse size: collosal
- gargoyle
- a grotesque carved human or animal: especiallyone used as a rainspout for clear water
- regurgitate
-
th cause to pour back or cast up partially digested food: to vomit
to rush or surge back - Caro, Carnis
- <L flesh
- carnage
- The killing of many people
- carnal
- Relating to the desires and appitites of the flesh
- carrion
- Dead and decaying flesh
- Incarnate
- Emboddied in human form
- Collum
- <L Neck
- accolade
-
Any honer, award, or expression of approval
A cerimonial tap on the shoulder with the flat side of the blade - Decolletage
- A low necklie on a garment, a garment with a low neckline
- Corpus, Corporis
- <L Body
- Corporal
- relating to or having the effect on the human body
- corporial
-
Charactoristic of or resembling the human body
Having material substance; able to be seen - corps
-
A military orginization of officers or of officers and enlistees
An army unit
A group of people having a common purpose or direction - Corpulent
- Excessivly bulky: Fat
- Corpus
-
A body or collection of writings
A structure of special character in an animal - Cor, Cordis
- <L Heart
- Accord
-
Harmony: agreement
To grant or bestow upon
To agree - Cordial
-
Hearty, warm, sencere
Stimulaing
A Liquer - Concordance
-
A state of agreement: Harmony
An Alphabetical index of all the words in a piece of text or collection of texts showing every occourance of a word - Os, Ossis
- <L bone
- ossify
-
To turn into stone: to become bony
To become rigid - Derma
- <G skin
- Dermatology
- The scientific study of skin and its deseases
- epidermis
- The outer protective layer of skin or outer layer of various organisms
- Dorsum
- <L the back
- Dorsal
- Pretaining to the back
- Dossier
- A set of documents cointaining information about a person thing or event: a file
- Endorse
-
To write ones signature on the back of a check or other document
To sign a contract
To acknowledge receipt of payment
To actively resort: to sanction - Gaster, Gasteros
- <G stomach
- Gastric
- Pretaining to the stomach
- Gastronome
- A person who is knowledgable about good food and drink: a gourmet
- Nervus
- <L sinew, nerve
- Enervate
- To deprive of strength: to weaken
- Sanguis, Sanguinis
- <L blood
- Sanguine
-
Cheerful, Hopeful
Reddish or ruddy - Consanguinity
-
Blood relationship
Any close relationship - Sedeo, sedere,sedi, sessum
- <L to sit, to settle
- Assiduous
-
Unceacingly attentive: devoted
Persistant, Diligent - Dissident
-
Differing, disagreeing
A person who disagrees - Seance
- A meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to raise the dead
- Sedantary
-
Charactorised by much sitting
Remaining in one area: not migratory - Supersede
- To take the place of: to replace