You Already Know Some Latin (part 3)
- Signa
- Aug 2
- 1 min read
If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you!
This time we are going to take a look at words that have their roots in Latin verbs! As with the nouns and adjectives, some English words come from different forms on the following verbs, but to make my life easier and to make the list more manageable for you, I have only included the present active form.
English | Latin |
Accident | accidens - a chance occurrence |
Ambulance | ambulo - to walk |
Audio | audio - to hear |
Celebrate | celebro - to celebrate |
Demonstrate | monstro - I point out, show |
Dictate, dictation | dico - I say, speak, tell |
Expect | exspecto - I wait |
Factory | facio - I do, make |
Habitat | habito - I dwell, live |
Ignorant | ignoro - I do not recognise, do not know |
Intelligence | intellego - I understand, realise |
Perish | pereo - I die, perish |
Portable | porto - I carry |
Possible | possum - I am able |
Reduction | reductio - I bring back |
Remove | removeo - I move away, remove, |
Salute | saluto - I greet, welcome |
Sense | sentio - I feel, notice, perceive |
Temptation | tempto - I test, try |
Transfer | transfero - I transfer |
Video | video - I see |
Volition | volo - I wish |
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