vocab lessons 3+4
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- mater, matris
- latin for mother
- matrix
- the surroundings within which something begins or develops
- matriarchy
- society ruled by women
- matriculate
- to register as a student at a collge or university
- pater, patris
- father-latin
- patriarch
- 1- the male head of a family or tribe, 2-an old testament ancestor, 3-a founding father or wise man
- patrimony
- a family inheritance
- patronage
-
1-support,encouragement
2-business clientele, customers - patronize
-
1-to go to regularly
2-to treat someone as an inferior - patronymic
- name derived from paternal ancestor
- frater,fratis
- latin for brother
- fraternal
- pertaining to brothers, brotherly
- fraternize
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1- to be friendly with
2-to socialize with an enemy population - avuncular
- like an uncle
- familial
- having to do with the family
- uxor, uxoris
- latin for wife
- uxorious
- dominated by one's wife
- gamos
- greek for marriage
- bigamy
- marriage to two mates
- monogomy
- marriage to a single mate
- puer
- latin for male child
- puerile
- childish, immature
- pais, paidos
- greek for child, boy
- orthopedics
- brnach of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
- pedagogue
- teacher
- pedant
-
1-a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules, not understanding
2-a scholarly show-off - sum, esse, fui, futurum
- latin for to be
- entity
- something that has a real or independent existence
- nonentity
- a person or thing of no importance
- essence
-
1-basic element, identifying characteristic
2-substance in a concentrated form from a plant or drug
3-a perfume - morior,mori, mortuum
- latin for to die
- moribund
- about to die or end
- mortify
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1-to shme
2-to discipline oneself by denial - postmortem
-
1-examination to determine cause of death, autopsy
2-analysis of something that is over - thantos
- greek for death
- euthanasia
- the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal, mercy killing
- innate
- possessed at birth, inborn
- naive
-
childlike, unsophisticated
gullibe - nascent
- emerging, coming into existence
- renaissance
-
1-rebirth, renewal
2-revival of humanism in 14th century to 16th century europe