Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson III
VITA means life. Something is vital if it is full of life VITA means life. Something is vital if it is full of life. Vitamins keep us alive; and to revitalize a neighborhood is to fix it up and bring it back to life!
VID means look. We look at videos; evidence is brought out to look at, and we provide for the future by looking (vid) forward (pro)!
PATER means father. Paternal behavior is fatherly, a patriarch is the male head of the family, and to be an expatriate is to live outside the fatherland!
MATRI means mother. Maternal means motherly, a matriarch is a female head of the family, and matrimony is marriage!
POP means people. You are popular when people like you; the population is the people, and a populous region is full of people!
Advanced Word: Patriarch The word patriarch (PAY-tree-ark) contains the Latin stems patri (father) and arch (rule). A patriarch is a fatherly figure who rules a family. Sometimes a family has a matriarch instead of a patriarch, and in that case the family leader is a female, such as a strong grandmother.
Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson III stem meaning examples vita (life) vital, vitamin, revitalize vid (look) video, evidence, provide pater (father) paternal, patriarch, expatriate matri (mother) maternal, matriarch, matrimony pop (people) popular, populations, populous
Analogies VITAL: MORBID:: patriarch : matriarch populous : people evidence : courtroom matrimony : mother
Analogies VITAL: MORBID:: patriarch : matriarch populous : people evidence : courtroom matrimony : mother
Solve. EXPATRIATE : COUNTRY :: paternal : attitude revitalize : dilapidated abandon : ship provide : neglect
Solve. EXPATRIATE : COUNTRY :: paternal : attitude revitalize : dilapidated abandon : ship provide : neglect
Caesar’s Antonyms: Find the best opposite. REVITALIZE VITAL raze a. revived revive b. vilify improve c. vivacious review d. moribund
Caesar’s Antonyms: Find the best opposite. REVITALIZE VITAL raze a. revived revive b. vilify improve c. vivacious review d. moribund
Caesar’s Context: Find the best word to complete the sentence. Ovid fled Rome and lived as an ______ far away, never to return. exception anarchist patriarch expatriate
Caesar’s Context: Find the best word to complete the sentence. Ovid fled Rome and lived as an ______ far away, never to return. exception anarchist patriarch expatriate
The venerable Cicero was the honored ________ of his family. patriarch expatriate population advocates
The venerable Cicero was the honored ________ of his family. patriarch expatriate population advocates
Gradually, the dilapidated areas were ________ under the new policy. adapted adhered transferred revitalized
Gradually, the dilapidated areas were ________ under the new policy. adapted adhered transferred revitalized
The Grammar of Vocabulary: expatriate, a noun or a verb. In his last years, Ovid was an expatriate in Tomis. _______________________________________