Classical Roots: Lesson 4 Flashcards
Pais, paidos
Child, boy
Puer
A male child
Puerile
Childish, immature
Orthopedics
Branch of the medicine of treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement.
Pedagogue
A teacher
Pedant
A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding.
A scholarly show-off.
Sum, esse, fui, futurum
To be
Entity
Something that has a real or independent existence.
Nonentity
A person or thing of no importance.
Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination.
Essence
The basic element; the identifying characteristic.
A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug.
A perfume.
Morior, mori, mortuum
To die
Moribund
About to die or end.
Mortify
To shame.
To discipline oneself by denial.
Postmortem
An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy.
An analysis of something that is over.
Thanatos
Death
Euthanasia
The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing.
Nascor, nasci, natum
To be born
Innate
Possessed at birth; inborn.
Naïve
Childlike; unsophisticated.
Gullible.
Nascent
Emerging; coming into existence.
Renaissance
A rebirth; a renewal.
A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe.
