PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: lessons 3+4

Question 1

mater, matris

Answer 1

mother

Question 2

matrix

Answer 2

the surroundings within which something begins or develops

Question 3

matriarchy

Answer 3

a society ruled or controlled by women

Question 4

matriculate

Answer 4

to register as a student at a college or university

Question 5

pater, patris

Answer 5

father

Question 6

patriarch3

Answer 6

• the male head of a family or tribe
• an old testament ancestor
• a founding father or wise man

Question 7

patrimony

Answer 7

a family inheritance

Question 8

patronage2

Answer 8

• support, encouragement

- business clientele, customers

Question 9

patronize2

Answer 9

• to go to regularly

- to treat someone as an inferiror

Question 10

patronymic

Answer 10

namer derived from a paternal ancestor

Question 11

frater, fratris

Answer 11

brother

Question 12

fraternal

Answer 12

pertaining to brothers, brotherly

Question 13

fraternize2

Answer 13

• to be friendly with

- to socialize with an enemy population

Question 14

avunculus, avunculi

Answer 14

uncle

Question 15

avuncular

Answer 15

like an uncle

Question 16

familia

Answer 16

family

Question 17

familial

Answer 17

having to do with the family

Question 18

uxor,uxoris

Answer 18

wife

Question 19

uxorious

Answer 19

dominated by one’s wie

Question 20

gamos

Answer 20

marriage

Question 21

bigamy

Answer 21

marriage to two mates

Question 22

monogamy

Answer 22

marriage to a single mate

Question 23

puer

Answer 23

a male child

Question 24

puerile

Answer 24

childish, immature

Question 25

pais, paidos

Answer 25

child, boy

Question 26

orthopedics

Answer 26

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

Question 27

pedagogue

Answer 27

a teacher

Question 28

pedant2

Answer 28

• person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rater than to understanding
• a scholarly show-off

Question 29

sum, esse, fui, futurum

Answer 29

to be

Question 30

entity

Answer 30

something that has a real or independent existence

Question 31

nonentity2

Answer 31

• a person or thing of no importance

- something that does not exist or exist only in the imagination

Question 32

essence3

Answer 32

• the basic element, the identifying characteristic
• a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plat or drug
• a perfume

Question 33

morior, mori, mortuum

Answer 33

to die

Question 34

moribund

Answer 34

about to die or end

Question 35

mortify2

Answer 35

• to shame

- to discipline oneself by denial

Question 36

postmortem2

Answer 36

• an examination to determine the cause of death, an autopsy

- an analysis of something that is over

Question 37

thenatos

Answer 37

death

Question 38

euthanasia

Answer 38

the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal, mercy killing

Question 39

nascor, nasci, natum

Answer 39

to be born

Question 40

innate

Answer 40

possessed at birth, inborn

Question 41

naive2

Answer 41

• childlike, unsophisticated

- gullible

Question 42

nascent

Answer 42

emergin, coming into existence

Question 43

renaissance2

Answer 43

• a rebirth, a renewal

- a revival of humanism in fourteenth century to sixteenth century europe