SAMPLE TEST: Chapters 1-3

nomen___________________________

I Singular and Plural (8):

A. Give the Latin plurals of:

  1. vertebra
  2. index
  3. species
  4. radius
  5. medium

B. Give the singulars of:

  1. data
  2. series
  3. genera

Extra: Give the plural of hiatus

Correct this: A bacteria on cats may affect humans.

II Match with a word from the same Latin base (8)

  1.     Ex x heir a. lassitude    j. eradicate
  2. ___ mood        b. morose             k. modular
  3. ___ lieu        c. mortician    l. latitudinarian
  4. ___ sewer d. civilization    m. unilateral
  5. ___ city        e. locale             n. capital
  6. ___ noun        f. radio             x. hereditary
  7. ___ radish g. terraqueous
  8. ___ dilate        h. rotunda
  9. ___ chapter i. nomenclature

III Match with the meaning of the Latin base (10):

  1. x medieval a. side l. ground
  2. __ amanuensis b. mouse m. immoral
  3. __ secular c. happy n. head
  4. __ muscle d. hand o. free
  5. __ humility e. wide p. death
  6. __ nucleus f. the times q. nut
  7. __ beatitude g. book x. age
  8. __ unilateral h. beautiful
  9. __ libertine i. appearance
  10. __ capital j. money
  11. __ specious k. falsehood

 

IV Productive words:

A. Choose 4 and give the meaning and 4 words using each (20)

  1. Example: opus, "work" > opus, opera, hors d'oeuvre, cooperate, inoperable, magnum opus
  2. __ primus
  3. __ gratia
  4. __ modus
  5. __ forma
  6. __ animus
  7. __ corpus

B. Choose 10, give meaning and two derivatives (30):

1. proprius

2. aptus

3. socius

4. satis

5. acer

6. caput

7. salus, salut-

8. verbum

9. tempus

10. bonus

11. onus

12. rota

V Choose 10, give meaning of each suffix and a word using it:

Ex. -alia "things having to do with" > regalia, mammalia

  1. -arium
  2. -lent
  3. -ine (adj.)
  4. -aceous
  5. -(i)tude
  6. -ate (noun)
  7. -cule / -cle
  8. -mony
  9. -ose
  10. -an / -ane
  11. -ule (-ula, -ulus)
  12. -ice

VI Choose two sets and tell the difference in meaning between the two words in each set.

Ex. visceral and viscid: visceral "gutsy", "emotional" and viscid "sticky"