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Ter-ere, tritum, to rub: contrite, detriment.

Terminus, a limit, boundary: term, determine, determination. Terra, the earth: Mediterranean (medius), subterranean, terrestrial, territory.

Terre-re, territum, to frighten: terror, terrible, terrify.

Testis, a witness: test, contest, testimony, testament.

Torque-re, tortum, to twist: contortion, torture, distort, tortuous, torment, retort.

Trad-ere, traditum, to put across, to hand over: tradition, treason,

traitor.

Trah-ere, tractum, to draw (tractare, to draw up and down, to handle): tract, attract, contract, extract, trace, retrace, entreat, portrait, train, treatment.

Trem-ere, to tremble: tremor, tremble, tremendous.

Tribu-ere, tributum, to assign: tribe, attribute, contribute, distribute. Turba, a crowd, confusion: disturb, disturbance, turbulent, turbid. Unda, a ware: abundance, undulate, abound.

Unus, one: unit, unite, unity, union, universal, uniform (forma), unanimous (animus).

Uti, usus, to use: use, utility, usage, useful, utilization, unusual, abuse.
Vad-ere (invadere, invasum), to go: invade, invasion, evasion.
Vale-re, to be strong: valour, valiant, invalid, avail, prevail, preva-
lence, value.

Veh-ere, vectum, to carry: convey, conveyance, vehement.

Velle (volo, I am willing), to be willing: volunteer, benevolent, voluntary.

Veni-re, ventum, to come: event, invent, advent, prevent, adventure, inventory, invention, venture, venturesome, convenient, revenue,

avenue.

Vert-ere, versum, to turn: convert, converse, verse, divert, inadvertent, traverse, version, vertical.

Via, a way: viaduct (ducere), obvious, previous, envoy, trivial. Vide-re, visum, to see: vision, evidence, providence, prudence, provision, providential, view, visit, survey, envy.

Vinc-ere, victum, to conquer: victim, convince.

Viv-ere, to live, and vita, life: vital, survive, revive, victuals.

Voca-re, vocatum, to call: vocal, provoke, equivocate (æquus), advocate, vowel.

Volv-ere, volutum, to roll, to fold: revolve, revolution, volume, revolt, vault.

Vove-re, votum, to vow: devote, devotion, devout, avow.

II. DERIVATIVES FROM THE GREEK.

Angelos, a messenger: angel, evangel, evangelist, evangelical.

Anthropos, a man: philanthropist.

Archein, to rule: monarch, anarchy, patriarch.

Arctos, a bear: arctic, antarctic (anti).

Ballein, to throw: parable, problem, emblem, symbol.

Bios, life: biography (graphein), autobiography (auto), amphibious

(amphi).

Chronos, time: chronic, anachronism, chronicle.

Cratos, rule: aristocracy.

Ergon, a work: energy, liturgy (leitos, public).

Ge, the earth: geography, geology.

Graphein, to write, gramma, a writing: graphic, autograph (auto), biography (bios), paragraph, grammar, photograph (phos, light). Hieros, sacred: hieroglyphic.

Hodos, a way: method, exodus, period, episode.

Legein, to speak (logos, discourse): dialect, dialogue, catalogue.
Metron, a measure: metre, barometer, thermometer, diameter.
Pathos, feeling: sympathy, antipathy, pathetic.

Phanai, to say (phemi, I say): blaspheme (blaptein, to hurt), blame, prophecy, prophesy.

Philos, a friend: philosophy (sophia, wisdom), philanthropist (anthropos).

Polis, a city: politics, polite, metropolis (meter, a mother).
Stellein, to send out: apostle, epistle.

Strophos, a turning: catastrophe.

Tropos, a turning: tropic, trophy.

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