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Chapter 33 Etymology Practice
Nomen mihi est ______________________ datum est ________I. Look
at the following list of English words which are derived from Latin
words in Chapter 33.
In the first column give the Latin word from which each word is
derived. (Hint: you may use the
same word more than once.) In the second column find the
definition of each word from the listbelow, and write it here.
Latin word Definition of English word
1. fortuitous ________________
_______________________________
2. stele ________________ _______________________________
3. proceed ________________ _______________________________
4. sanguine ________________ _______________________________
5. disgust ________________ _______________________________
6. pestilence ________________
_______________________________
7. gustatory ________________
_______________________________
8. edible ________________ _______________________________
9. complete ________________ _______________________________
10. vulnerable ________________
_______________________________
11. enumerate ________________
_______________________________
12. uvula ________________ _______________________________
13. aspersion ________________
_______________________________
14. interpret ________________
_______________________________
15. site ________________ _______________________________
16. animation ________________
_______________________________
17, lunar ________________ _______________________________
18. vestment ________________
_______________________________
19. lapidary ________________
_______________________________
20. peccary ________________ _______________________________
21. lunacy ________________ _______________________________
22. in lieu ________________ _______________________________
23. nasal ________________ _______________________________
24. et cetera ________________
_______________________________
25. rescind ________________ _______________________________
26. medic ________________ _______________________________
27. scissors ________________
_______________________________
Definitions:
*dealer in precious stones *pig-like animal *damaging remark
*pertaining to the moon
*to count off *wildly foolish act *pertaining to the nose
*explain the meaning of
*gown worn by clergy *fleshy mass in back of throat *doctor
*cutting tool
*able to be eaten *stone slab *of a red color *epidemic disease
*offend or sicken
*to go forward *happening by chance *process of imparting life
*having all parts
*susceptible to injury *related to sense of taste *location
*insanity *in place of
*unspecified things *repeal
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II. Fill in the blanks below with derivatives from part I that
complete each blank in the
story below.
AN ATYPICAL SUNDAY PICNIC IN THE PARK
Because the chicken had been sitting on the table in the sun for
several hours, my mom
said it was no longer __________________. Since I was hungry,
___________ ofeating chicken, I decided to grill a burger. While
waiting for my food in the picnic grove,
a herd of ___________________ ran by. I was in the path of 3 of
them, making me
___________________ to being run over and hurt. This was a
_______________________ incident, it certainly wasnt planned. As
I ran from these
pig-like creatures, my face was a bright red _______________
color. My mother
thought the behavior of the animals was because of the
______________ eclipse which
was occurring. I thought that idea was pure _______________, or
craziness, and told
my mom I disagreed. She scolded me for these
___________________, saying I
should never talk like that about her again.When my burger was
finally cooked, it was too large to eat, and not having a
knife,
I cut it in two with the _________________ my sister was using
to create confetti.
She was angry that it now had burger juice on it, since she
could not _____________, or
finish, her project. I saw she already had a huge pile of
confetti and told her to
________________ them to see if she had enough. While she was
counting them, the
wind blew up and some of the confetti blew in her mouth and
landed on her
_____________. We had to call a ________________ to come quickly
and see if the
confetti could be removed before she choked on it. The doctor
came to our location, or
____________, but on the way to our picnic table, he tripped on
a large_____________ that was placed there. This contained
inscriptions in honor of the local
_________________, a famous gem cutter of our town. He died when
a great
__________________, the Avian Influenza outbreak occurred in our
community. The
doctor gashed his knee and to stop the bleeding, the church
priest offered his
______________ to wrap around the wound.
Meanwhile, my sister was choking, and to get our attention began
dancing around
with spirited _________________. We ________________ to run to
her and, after
drinking copious glasses of water, she recovered. We
__________________ this as a
sign that it was time to go home before anything else happened.
I think I will
_________________ any future plans to go to that park again.
