You Already Know Some Latin (part 2)

If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you!

In part one of this mini-series, we covered 70 English words that are related to Latin nouns; now it's time for the adjectives! As with the last post, I will provide a very brief definition of the Latin words when their meanings differ from those of the English words. I am also only providing the dictionary form of the Latin word, even though the English word is derived from a different form. This is purely to make this list more manageable.

This is by no means a complete list and is mostly made up of words I have come across while studying Latin.

English	Latin
Alternative	alter - the other, second, another
Altitude	altus - high, deep
Antique	antiquus
Aperture	apertus - open
Atrocity	atrox - harsh, fierce
Brief	brevis
Bonus	bonus - good
Closed	clausus
Dense	densus - thick
Difficult	difficilis
Divine, divinity	divinus
Durable	durus - hard, uncompromising
Duration	durare - to harden, to last
Fortified	fortis - strong, brave
Fracture	fractus
Gravitas	gravis - serious, weighty
Immortal	immortalis
Immobile	immotus - motionless
Incognito	incognitus - unknown
Long	longus
Lubrication	lubricus - slippery
Miracle	mirus - wonderful, astonishing, strange
Misery	miser
Novice	novus - new
Nude	nudus
Optimum	optimus - very good, excellent
Perturbed	perturbatus - confused, disturbed
Proximity	proximus - next
Rapid	rapidus
Similar	similis
Situated	situs
Vivacious	vivus - alive, living

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Sources:

https://www.oed.com/?tl=true

https://www.latin-dictionary.net/