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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