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Jung-o, junctum, to join, enjoin; to make to join; cojoin, injunction, joint.

Just-us, just, upright, lawful: as, justify, to make just ; adjust, unjust, justly.

2. Latum, to carry, to bring: as, legislate, to pass or make laws; correlate, elation, prelative, translator.

Leg-o, legatum, to send as an ambassador, to leave by will: as, allege, to send an ambassage; collegian, legacy, relegate. Leg-o, lectum, to gather, to read, to choose: as, collect, to gather together; election, the act of choosing out; dialect, eclectic.

Lev-o, levatum, to lift up, to raise : as, elevate, to raise up ; lift; levee, relief, levity.

Lex, legis, a law, or rule: as, lawless, without law; legal, belonging to law.

Liber, free: as, deliver, to set free; liberal.

Lig-o, ligatum, to bind, to tie: as, obligatory, binding ; ligature, the thing tied.

Log-os, reason, a word, science: as, dialogue, a discourse between two; entomology, a discourse on insects; eulogist, eulogy, logic, physiology, nosology.

Long-us, long: as, oblong, longer than broad.

Loqu-or, locutus, to speak: as, eloquence, speaking out; obloquy, a speaking against; colloquy, ventriloquist.

Lud-o, lusum, to play, to deceive: as, delude, to cheat; ludicrous, exciting laughter.

§ 38. Magn-us, great: as, magnify, to make great ; magnitude, main, majesty, majority.

Male, evil, ill: as, dismal, an evil day; malepractice.

Mand-o, mandatum, to commit, to command; demand, to ask for; remand, recommend.

Man-us, the hand: as, manacle, a chain for the hand; manufacture, a thing made with hand; -manumit, to send from the hand; manuscript, mismanage.

Medi-us, middle: as, mediocrity, middle rate; mediator, one who goes between two parties; medium, dimediated.

Memor, mindful, keeping in mind: as, memorable, worthy of memory; memento, memoir, mention.

Mensur-a, a measure: as, immense, not measurable; dimension, mete, meter.

Metr-um, a measure: as, goniometor, an instrument to meas

ure angles; heliometer, an instrument to measure the sun and stars; chronometer, geometry, metrical.

Minu-o, minutum, to lessen: as, diminish, to make less; minute, small; comminute, minority, minus, minion.

Misc-eo, mixtum, to mix, to mingle: as, miscellaneous, mingled; mixtion, immix, mixable, admix.

Mitt-o, missum, to send: as, admit, to send to; dismiss, to send asunder; compromit, mission, premise, remiss, transmit. Mod-us, a measure, a manner, a direction: as, commodious, suitable; immoderate, not measured; modest, moderns, remodel. Mon-os, one, alone, solitary: as, monarch, government of one person; monopathy, solitary feeling; monograph, monotony. Mor-s, mortis, death: as, mortal, liable to death; mort, mortify, murder.

Move-o, motum, to move: as, commotion, moving together; a motion, mob, moter, promote.

Mult-us, many: as, multifid, many-cleft; multiple.

Munus, muner-is, a gift, an offer: as, munerary, relating to a gift; immunity, common, communion.

Mut-o, mutatum, to change: as, commute, to change with; mutiny, immute.

39. 1. Nasc-or, natus, to be born, to spring: as, natal, pertaining to birth; ill-nature, notion, unnative, renascent.

Nav-is, a ship: as, navigate, to pass in water in ships; naval. Nect-o, to tie, to knit: as, annex, to tie to; connex.

Nomen, nomin-is, a name: as, ignominy, against name; nomial, noun, nominative.

Non, not as, nonage, not age; nolition, nonjuring, nonplus, nonsuit.

Nosc-o, notum, to know: as, nobilitate, to make noble; agnition, cognizee, nobly, prenotion, unknow.

Not-a, a mark: as, notable, that may be marked.

Nov-us, new as, innovate, to introduce novelties; renew, to make again.

Null-us, none, no: as, nullify, to make void; nullity.

Nuncio, to bring news, to tell, to name: as, announce, to tell to; nuncio, pronounce, renunciation.

2. Ol-eo, to emit a smell, to grow: as, olfactory, belonging to smelling; abolish, to grow from, to annul; olicit, adult, obsolete.

Opt-o, to see: as, optics, the science of sight; dropsy, myope, synopsis.

Ordo, ordin-is, order, rank: as, inordinate, not according to order; ordain, disorder, ordnance.

Or-o, oratum, to speak, to beg: as, adore, to pay divine worship; oral, of the mouth; oratrix, oryfice.

Ox-s, sharp, sour: as, oxytone, an acute sound; oxygen, paroxysm, oxyd.

40. Par, par-is, équal, like, match to: as, parity, a being equal; a compeer, an equal, a companion; compare, imparity, peeress.

Par-o, paratum, to make ready, to prepare: as, repair, to restore to a sound state after decay; parade, sever, emperor. Pars, part-is, a part, a share: as, partial, of a part, or party; impart, to give, to grant, bipartile, parse, partite.

Pas, pan, pant, all, whole: as, pantheon, a temple of all the gods; panurgy, skill in all kinds of work; panoply.

Pass-us, a pace, a step: as, surpass, to pass beyond; pastime, passport, pace, passage.

Pater, patr-is, a father: as, patriot, a lover of his country; patron, parricide.

Pati-or, passus, to suffer, to endure: as, compassion, feeling with another; passable, empassion.

Pax, pac-is, peace: as, pacify, to make peace; pacate, peace. Pell-o, pulsum, to drive, to strike: as, compel, to drive together; repellent, driving back; propel, propulse, repel.

Pend-eo, pensum, to hang: as, dependent, hanging down; pensile, hanging; pendant, suspensor.

Pend-o, pensum, to weigh, to lay out, to pay: as, expend, to lay out; dispend, prepend, dispensation.

Pes, ped-is, a foot: as, pedestrian, going on foot; expediate, impede, petiole, pedestal.

Pet-o, petitum, to seek, to ask: as, compete, to seek for the same thing; petition, a seeking; repeat, repetend.

Phan-o, or phen-o, to enlighten, to appear, to show, to say: as, prophecy, a foretelling; phantom, phase.

Phil-os, a lover: as, philosophy, the love of wisdom; philology, Theophilus.

Plac-eo, to please: as, pleasant, pleasing; placid, quiet.

Ple-o, pletum, to fill: as, complete, filled, endue; expletive, replete, supply, implement.

Plic-o, plicatum, to fold, to knit: as, apply, to fold or lay to ; application, complico, pliant, reply, simplist.

Plor-o, ploratum, to cry out, to wail, to weep: as, deplore, to

mourn.

Pol-is, a city, a town: as, cosmopolite, a citizen of the world; politics, the science of government; police, polisher.

Poly, many: as, polychord, having many chords; polyonomy,

many names.

Pondus, ponder-is, weight: as, overpoise, outweigh; ponder, to weigh in the mind; pound.

Pon-o, positum, to put or place: as, opposite, placing to; compose, to place together; postpone, to put after or off.

Popul-us, the people: as, populous, full of people; public, belonging to the whole people.

Port-o, portatum, to carry or bear, to import: as, comport, to bear with; export, to carry out; report, to carry back.

Poss-e, to be able: as, impossible, that cannot be; potentate, a person possessing power, puisant.

Prehend-o, prehensum, to take, to seize: as, impregnable, that cannot be taken; apprehend, to take with the mind; imprison, apprise, prize, surprisal.

Prem-o, pressum, to press: as, compress, to press together ; imprint, to prepare; oppress, comprint.

Prim-us, first: as, principle, the first of any thing, the cause; primeval, of the first age.

Prob-o, probatum, to prove, to try: as, approve, to like, to commend; probity, goodness; probate, reproof.

Prop-e, proxim, nearest, next: as, approach, to come near to; proximal, reproach.

Pung-o, punctum, to point, or prick: as, expunge, to blot out; pointless, puncto, pungence, pounce.

Put-o, putatum, to lose, to think, to adjust accounts: as, amputate, to cut off a limb; dispute, to differ in opinion.

Pyr, pyr-os, fire: as, empyreal, formed of pure fire; pyre, pyrotic, pyrometer.

§ 41. Quadr-a, a square: as, quadrennial, comprising four years; quarter, a fourth part; quadrater.

Quaer-o, quaesitum, to ask, to seek, to obtain: as, conquer, to subdue; inquire, to ask a question; to request, to ask; perquisite, querist, request.

Quies, quiet-is, rest, ease, peace: as, disquiet, want of quiet; requiem, coy, coyly, quietus.

42. Rap-io, raptum, to snatch, to carry away quickly: as,

enrapture, to transport with pleasure; rapacious, given to plunder, seizing by force.

Rat-us, thinking, judging, fixed: as, ratify, to make valid ; rational, having reason, underrate.

Reg-o, rectum, to rule or govern: as, correct, to make right; region, a district under one ruler; regal, direct, rector, regnant, rightly.

Rog-o, rogatum, to ask, to request: as, interrogate, to question; erogate, arrogate, prorogue.

Rupt-um, to break, to burst: as, abrupt, broken off; eruption, a bursting forth; disrupt.

1. Sacer, sacri, sacred, holy, destable: as, desecrate, to divert from a sacred use; sacrilege, stealing sacred things.

Sal, salt, wit: as, saltern, a salt works; salnous.

Sal-io, saltum, to leap, to jump: as, assail, to leap upon; salient, leaping; insult, resile.

Sal-us, salutis, safety, health: as, salutary, belonging to safety; saluter, salvable.

Satis, enough, sufficient: as, satisfy, to give enough; satiate, to fill; unsated, saturating.

Scand-o, scansum, to go, to climb, to mount: as, descend, to go down; scanned, transcendant.

Sci-o, to know: as, conscious, knowing one's self; science, sciolism.

Scop-eo, to look, to observe narrowly: as, astroscopy, observation of the stars; scope, design, aim.

Scrib-o, scriptum, to write: as, ascribe, to write to; transcribe, to copy, scribble, manuscript, scrip.

Sec-o, sectum, to cut: as, dissect, to cut in pieces, insectile, of an insect; sect, saw, bisect.

Sed-eo, sessum, to sit : as, assess, to set a certain sum upon one; sedentary, belonging to setting.

Semi, half: as, semitone, half a tone; semifluid, semivowel, semipedal.

Sent-io, sensum, to feel, to think: as, consentient, agreeing in mind; nonsense, scent.

Sequ-or, secutus, to follow: as, consecutive, following in a train; pursue, to follow; sequel, sue, suited, sequent.

Sert-um, to knit, to join in discourse: as, assert, to affirm; exert, to put forth; desert, sermon.

Serv-io, servitum, to be a slave, to obey: as, servile, belonging to slavery; deserve, sergeant.

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