Commerce Word Studies

Question 1

____ => Agriculture

Latin.

Answer 1

From the Latin ager,
-- meaning "field" or "land",
and the Latin cultura,
-- meaning "cultivation", "tillage", or "care".
Related words are agronomy and agrarian.

Question 2

____ => Commerce

Latin.

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

____ => Communism

Latin.

Answer 3

From the Latin communis,

– meaning “common”.

Question 4

____ => Competition

Latin.

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

____ => Economy

Greek.

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

____ => Inflation

Latin.

Answer 6

From the Latin prefix in-,
-- meaning "into",
the Latin verb flare,
-- meaning "to blow" (the base is fla-),
and the noun suffix -tion.

Question 7

____ => Manage

Latin.

Answer 7

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).

Question 8

____ => Monopoly

Greek.

Answer 8

From the Greek word monos,
– meaning “alone”,
and the Greek word polein,
– meaning “to sell”.

Question 9

____ => Pecuniary

Latin.

Answer 9

From the Latin word pecus,

– meaning “cattle”.

Question 10

____ => Commodity

Latin.

Answer 10

From the Latin word commodum,

– meaning “convenience” or “useful thing”.

Question 11

____ => Finance

Latin.

Answer 11

From the Latin word finis,

– meaning “end”.

Question 12

____ => Fiscal

Latin.

Answer 12

From the Latin word fiscus,

– meaning “purse”.

Question 13

____ => Money

Latin.

Answer 13

From the Latin word moneta,
– meaning “pertaining to Juno”.
Related word: (coining) mint.

Question 14

____ => Specialize

Latin.

Answer 14

From the Latin word species,

– meaning “appearance”.

Question 15

____ => Talent

Greek.

Answer 15

From the Greek word talanton,

– meaning “balance”, “weight”, or “sum of money”.

Question 16

____ => Usury

Latin.

Answer 16

From the Latin word usura,

– with a base meaning “use”.

Question 17

____ => Credit

Latin.

Answer 17

From the Latin verb credere,

– meaning “to believe”.

Question 18

____ => Debt

Latin.

Answer 18

From the Latin verb debere,

– meaning “to owe”.

Question 19

____ => Mutual

Latin.

Answer 19

From the Latin verb mutuari,

– meaning “to borrow”.

Question 20

____ => Convention, conventional

Latin.

Answer 20

From the Latin conventio,

– meaning “coming together” or “agreement”.

Question 21

____ => Emancipate

Latin.

Answer 21

“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”).

Question 22

____ => Entrepreneur

Latin.

Answer 22

"Businessman" or "risk-taker".
From the Latin verb prehendere,
-- meaning "to seize",
Via the French entreprise ("bold undertaking").
Related words: comprehend, apprehend.

Question 23

____ => Industry, industrial, industrious.

Latin.

Answer 23

From the Latin word industria,

– meaning “activity”.

Question 24

____ => Island

Latin.

Answer 24

From the Latin word insula.

Related words: insulate, insulin, isle.

Question 25

____ => Navigate, navy

Latin.

Answer 25

From the Latin word navis,

– meaning “ship”.

Question 26

____ => Nausea, nautical

Greek.

Answer 26

From the Greek word naus,

– meaning “ship”.

Question 27

____ => Negotiate

Latin.

Answer 27

From the Latin word negotium,
– meaning “lack of leisure”,
derived from otium (“leisure”) and the prefix -neg.
Related word: Otiose (“redundant” or “unnecessary”).

Question 28

____ => Pacify, Pact

Latin.

Answer 28

From the Latin word pax,

– meaning “peace”.

Question 29

____ => Publish, publican

Latin.

Answer 29

From the Latin word publicanus,
– meaning “relating to the public revenues” or “a contractor”.
Derived from populus, meaning “people”.

Question 30

____ => Populace, popular

Latin.

Answer 30

From the Latin word populus,

– meaning “people”.

Question 31

____ => Sanction

Latin.

Answer 31

From the Latin word sancire,
– meaning “to make sacred”, “to establish”, or “to fix unalterably”.
Related words: sacrosanct and sanctuary, sanctify and sanctimonious.

Question 32

____ => Social, society

Latin.

Answer 32

From the Latin word socius,
– meaning “ally” or “partner”.
Related words: associate, sociology.

Question 33

____ => Client, clientele

Latin.

Answer 33

From the Latin word cliens.

Question 34

____ => Liberty

Latin.

Answer 34

From the Latin word libertas,

– meaning “freedom”.

Question 35

____ => Manumit

Latin.

Answer 35

From the Latin word manumittere,

– mittere (“to send”) + manu (“from the hand”).

Question 36

____ => Manufacture

Latin.

Answer 36

From the Latin word manus,
– meaning “hand”.
Related words: manuscript, manual, maneuver.

Question 37

____ => Servant, service, servile

Latin.

Answer 37

From the Latin word servus,

– meaning “slave”.

Question 38

____ => Ballistic, anabolic, emblem, problem

Greek.

Answer 38

From the Greek word ballein,

– meaning “to throw”

Question 39

____ => Hydraulics

Greek.

Answer 39

From the Greek base hydr-,
-- meaning "water",
and the Greek word aulos,
-- meaning "pipe".
Related words: hydrogen, hydrochloride.

Question 40

____ => Engine, ingenious, genius

Latin.

Answer 40

From the Latin word ingenium,
– meaning “cleverness”.
Related words: gene, photogenic.

Question 41

____ => Machine, mechanical, mechanize

Greek via Latin.

Answer 41

From the Greek word mekhane via the Latin machina,

– meaning “contrivance”.

Question 42

____ => Metal, metallic, metallurgy, metalloid.

Greek.

Answer 42

From the Greek word metallon,

– meaning “mine”.

Question 43

____ => Technology, technique, technocracy, technobabble

Greek.

Answer 43

From the Greek word techne,

– meaning “art”, “craft”, or “skill”.

Question 44

____ => Vernacular

Latin.

Answer 44

“Commonly spoken language”.
From the Latin word verna,
– meaning “home-bred slave”.