Classical Roots: Lesson 4

Question 0

Pais, paidos

Answer 0

Child, boy

Question 1

Puer

Answer 1

A male child

Question 2

Puerile

Answer 2

Childish, immature

Question 3

Orthopedics

Answer 3

Branch of the medicine of treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement.

Question 4

Pedagogue

Answer 4

A teacher

Question 5

Pedant

Answer 5

A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding.
A scholarly show-off.

Question 6

Sum, esse, fui, futurum

Answer 6

To be

Question 7

Entity

Answer 7

Something that has a real or independent existence.

Question 8

Nonentity

Answer 8

A person or thing of no importance.

Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination.

Question 9

Essence

Answer 9

The basic element; the identifying characteristic.
A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug.
A perfume.

Question 10

Morior, mori, mortuum

Answer 10

To die

Question 11

Moribund

Answer 11

About to die or end.

Question 12

Mortify

Answer 12

To shame.

To discipline oneself by denial.

Question 13

Postmortem

Answer 13

An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy.

An analysis of something that is over.

Question 14

Thanatos

Answer 14

Death

Question 15

Euthanasia

Answer 15

The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing.

Question 16

Nascor, nasci, natum

Answer 16

To be born

Question 17

Innate

Answer 17

Possessed at birth; inborn.

Question 18

Naïve

Answer 18

Childlike; unsophisticated.

Gullible.

Question 19

Nascent

Answer 19

Emerging; coming into existence.

Question 20

Renaissance

Answer 20

A rebirth; a renewal.

A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe.