Commerce Word Studies Flashcards
____ => Agriculture
Latin.
From the Latin ager, -- meaning "field" or "land", and the Latin cultura, -- meaning "cultivation", "tillage", or "care". Related words are agronomy and agrarian.
____ => Commerce
Latin.
From the Latin prefix com-, -- meaning "together", and the Latin word merx, -- meaning "goods" or "merchandise". Related words are merchant, mercantile, merchandise, meretricious, mercury, and mercy.
____ => Communism
Latin.
From the Latin communis,
– meaning “common”.
____ => Competition
Latin.
From the Latin prefix com-, -- meaning "together", and the Latin word petere, -- meaning "to seek" or "to look for", with the noun suffix -tion at the end.
____ => Economy
Greek.
From the Greek term oikonomia, -- meaning "household management, and formed from oikos, -- meaning "house", and nomos, -- meaning law. The base derived from oikos was later spelled oeco- and then eco-, related words include ecology, ecosphere, and ecosystem; also ecumenical and parochial.
____ => Inflation
Latin.
From the Latin prefix in-, -- meaning "into", the Latin verb flare, -- meaning "to blow" (the base is fla-), and the noun suffix -tion.
____ => Manage
Latin.
From the Latin word manus,
– meaning “hand”.
As in “take in hand” or “take charge of”.
Related words: mandate (an instruction placed in one’s hand), demand (ask for, require).
____ => Monopoly
Greek.
From the Greek word monos,
– meaning “alone”,
and the Greek word polein,
– meaning “to sell”.
____ => Pecuniary
Latin.
From the Latin word pecus,
– meaning “cattle”.
____ => Commodity
Latin.
From the Latin word commodum,
– meaning “convenience” or “useful thing”.
____ => Finance
Latin.
From the Latin word finis,
– meaning “end”.
____ => Fiscal
Latin.
From the Latin word fiscus,
– meaning “purse”.
____ => Money
Latin.
From the Latin word moneta,
– meaning “pertaining to Juno”.
Related word: (coining) mint.
____ => Specialize
Latin.
From the Latin word species,
– meaning “appearance”.
____ => Talent
Greek.
From the Greek word talanton,
– meaning “balance”, “weight”, or “sum of money”.
____ => Usury
Latin.
From the Latin word usura,
– with a base meaning “use”.
____ => Credit
Latin.
From the Latin verb credere,
– meaning “to believe”.
____ => Debt
Latin.
From the Latin verb debere,
– meaning “to owe”.
____ => Mutual
Latin.
From the Latin verb mutuari,
– meaning “to borrow”.
____ => Convention, conventional
Latin.
From the Latin conventio,
– meaning “coming together” or “agreement”.
____ => Emancipate
Latin.
“To take out of someone’s power”.
From the Latin manceps,
– meaning “a bidder” or “a purchaser”,
derived from manus (“hand”) and capere (“to take”).
____ => Entrepreneur
Latin.
"Businessman" or "risk-taker".
From the Latin verb prehendere,
-- meaning "to seize",
Via the French entreprise ("bold undertaking").
Related words: comprehend, apprehend.____ => Industry, industrial, industrious.
Latin.
From the Latin word industria,
– meaning “activity”.
____ => Island
Latin.
From the Latin word insula.
Related words: insulate, insulin, isle.
____ => Navigate, navy
Latin.
From the Latin word navis,
– meaning “ship”.
____ => Nausea, nautical
Greek.
From the Greek word naus,
– meaning “ship”.
____ => Negotiate
Latin.
From the Latin word negotium,
– meaning “lack of leisure”,
derived from otium (“leisure”) and the prefix -neg.
Related word: Otiose (“redundant” or “unnecessary”).
____ => Pacify, Pact
Latin.
From the Latin word pax,
– meaning “peace”.
____ => Publish, publican
Latin.
From the Latin word publicanus,
– meaning “relating to the public revenues” or “a contractor”.
Derived from populus, meaning “people”.
____ => Populace, popular
Latin.
From the Latin word populus,
– meaning “people”.
____ => Sanction
Latin.
From the Latin word sancire,
– meaning “to make sacred”, “to establish”, or “to fix unalterably”.
Related words: sacrosanct and sanctuary, sanctify and sanctimonious.
____ => Social, society
Latin.
From the Latin word socius,
– meaning “ally” or “partner”.
Related words: associate, sociology.
____ => Client, clientele
Latin.
From the Latin word cliens.
____ => Liberty
Latin.
From the Latin word libertas,
– meaning “freedom”.
____ => Manumit
Latin.
From the Latin word manumittere,
– mittere (“to send”) + manu (“from the hand”).
____ => Manufacture
Latin.
From the Latin word manus,
– meaning “hand”.
Related words: manuscript, manual, maneuver.
____ => Servant, service, servile
Latin.
From the Latin word servus,
– meaning “slave”.
____ => Ballistic, anabolic, emblem, problem
Greek.
From the Greek word ballein,
– meaning “to throw”
____ => Hydraulics
Greek.
From the Greek base hydr-, -- meaning "water", and the Greek word aulos, -- meaning "pipe". Related words: hydrogen, hydrochloride.
____ => Engine, ingenious, genius
Latin.
From the Latin word ingenium,
– meaning “cleverness”.
Related words: gene, photogenic.
____ => Machine, mechanical, mechanize
Greek via Latin.
From the Greek word mekhane via the Latin machina,
– meaning “contrivance”.
____ => Metal, metallic, metallurgy, metalloid.
Greek.
From the Greek word metallon,
– meaning “mine”.
____ => Technology, technique, technocracy, technobabble
Greek.
From the Greek word techne,
– meaning “art”, “craft”, or “skill”.
____ => Vernacular
Latin.
“Commonly spoken language”.
From the Latin word verna,
– meaning “home-bred slave”.
