WORDS For Week 3
| Struthionine, ostrichlike |
| glirarium, "a place to raise dormice" < Latin glis, glir- "dormouse" |
| ana, a collection , from the neuter plural of the suffix -anus "having to to with" > "things having to do with" |
| deracinate "to uproot", "to displace from one's native environment" < French, racine < Latin radix, "root" |
| *secular "worldly", "of this world [rather than the next]" < Latin, saeculum, "the age", "the times" |
| equivocate "be evasive" < Latin equi- [aequus], "equal" + vox "voice" |
| materfamilias "woman of the house" < Latin "mother of the family" |
| amanuensis "secretary" < Latin servus a manu "a slave from the hand/handwriting." That is, a slave whose job is to take dictation or copy a manuscript. |
| sanguine "cheerful", "optimistic" See humor. |
| venal "for sale" [ready to sell one's influence] < Latin venum "sale" |
| aver "to declare to be true" < Latin ad + verus ["to" + "true"] |
| antic (noun) "ludicrous activity"; (adjective) "odd" < Italian antico [of grotesque designs on certain ancient Roman artifacts] < Latin antiquus |
| trivia "crossroads", place where three roads meet and folks gather to gossip. |
| furfuraceous "made of scaly particles" [like dandruff] < Latin furfur "bran" |
| vituperate "abuse", inflict blame upon < vitium "fault" |
ullage spillage or leakage: the amount of liquid that is lost from a container in shipping or storage. < Old French ouillage < ouiller "to fill up" < ouil "eye", "bunghole" [the hole in a barrel through which liquid is poured in or out] < Latin oculus "eye"
Other words from oculus are inoculate [inoculare "engraft" < oculus "eye", "bud"] and inveigle [from ab-oculus "blind"] Also from the same root, English eye, Greek opsis > autopsy, synopsis, etc.