CLCV 224: greek and latin terms, modern terms, and organizations and institutions

Ethnos

nation or people.

Gens (gentis)

clan or extended family.

Natio

birth group or tribe (root of “nation”).

Physis

nature.

Nomos

law or custom.

Periplus

voyage around (travel narrative).

Seisachtheia

debt relief reform by Solon.

Servus

slave.

Familia

household including enslaved people.

Manumissio

formal freeing of slaves.

Libertinus

freed person (former slave).

Latifundia

large Roman estates worked by slaves.

Agape

selfless, divine love.

Eros

passionate love.

Philia

friendship or brotherly love.

Elegy

poem of loss or reflection.

Dactylic hexameter

meter of epic poetry.

Aethiopia 

ancient term for sub-Saharan Africa; associated with wisdom and exoticism.

King Philip’s War (1675–76)

Conflict between Native Americans and colonists in New England.

Chattel slavery

Humans treated as personal property.

Middle Passage

Atlantic voyage transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Jim Crow:

Segregation laws enforcing racial discrimination.

Normal school

Institution for training teachers.

The Talented Tenth

Du Bois’s idea that the top 10% of Black Americans would lead racial uplift.

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from South to North (1916–1970).

Redlining

Denial of housing loans based on race or neighborhood.

Ku Klux Klan

White supremacist group founded in 1865.

Civil Rights Movement

1950s–60s struggle for racial equality and desegregation.

American Missionary Association

Founded schools for freed slaves post–Civil War.

Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)

Federal agency aiding formerly enslaved people.

Howard University (1867)

Major historically Black university in D.C.

Tuskegee University (1881)

Founded by Booker T. Washington; vocational education.

Atlanta University (1865)

Later part of Clark Atlanta; Du Bois taught there.