Popular Derivatives

Ambulance

Ambulance

from Latin ambulare, meaning "to walk"

Audition

from Latin audire, meaning "to hear"

Bonus

from Latin bonus, meaning "good"

Cognition

from Latin cognoscere, meaning "to know"

Deceive

from Latin decipere, meaning "to deceive"

Exit

from Latin exitus, meaning "a going out"

Facile

from Latin facilis, meaning "easy"

Inevitable

from Latin inevitabilis, meaning "that cannot be avoided"

Jovial

from Latin Iovialis, meaning "of or pertaining to Jupiter"

Magnify

from Latin magnificare, meaning "to make great"

Nostalgia

from Greek nostos, meaning "return home" and algos, meaning "pain"

Omniscient

from Latin omnis, meaning "all" and scire, meaning "to know"

Perceive

from Latin percipere, meaning "to take in through the senses"

Procrastinate

from Latin procrastinare, meaning "to put off until tomorrow"

Quadrant

from Latin quadrans, meaning "a fourth part"

Regal

from Latin regalis, meaning "kingly"

Spectacle

from Latin spectaculum, meaning "a public show"

Terrify

from Latin terrere, meaning "to frighten"

Unity

from Latin unitas, meaning "oneness"

Vivid

from Latin vividus, meaning "lively"

Agriculture

from the Latin ager (field) and cultura (cultivation).

Aquarium

from the Latin aqua (water) and -arium (a place for).

Portable

from the Latin portare (to carry) and -abilis (able to be).

Lunar

from the Latin luna (moon).

Octet

from the Latin octo (eight).

Biology

from the Greek bios (life) and -logy (the study of).

Aquatic

from the Latin aqua (water).

Centennial

from the Latin centum (hundred) and -ennial (year).

Dictate

from the Latin dictare (to dictate) and -ate (to make).

Magnitude

from the Latin magnus (great) and -tude (state of being).

Multilingual

from the Latin multus (many) and lingua (language).

Conjunction

from the Latin con (with) and jungere (to join) and -ion (action or process).

Pedestrian

from the Latin pedester (on foot) and -ian (belonging to).

Aqueous

from the Latin aqua (water) and -ous (having the quality of).

Fracture

from the Latin fractus (broken).

Inflection

from the Latin inflectere (to bend) and -ion (action or process).

Sedentary

from sedentarius, "sitting"): Involving much sitting; inactive.

Sorority

from soror, "sister"): A social organization for female students at a college or university.

Puerile

from puer, "boy"): Childish, immature.