Vocab Lessons 3 and 4

MATER, MATRIS

mother

matrix

n. surroundings within which something begins

matriarchy

n. a society ruled by women

matriculate

v. to register as a student to a college or university

PATER, PATRIS

father

patriarch

n. male head of a family

patrimony

n. family inheritance

patronage

n. support; encouragement

patronize

v. to treat someone as an inferior

patronymic

n. name derived from a paternal ancestor

FRATER, FRATRIS

brother

fraternal

adj. brotherly

fraternize

v. to be friendly with/ to socialize with an enemy population

AVUNCULUS, AVUNCULI

uncle

avuncular

adj. like an uncle

FAMILIA

family

familial

adj. having to do with the family

UXOR, UXORIS

wife

uxorious

adj. dominated by one’s wife

GAMOS

marriage

bigamy

n. marriage to two mates

monogamy

n. marriage to a single mate

PUER

a male child

puerile

adj. childish; immature

PAIS, PAIDOS

child, boy

orthopedics

n. branch of medicine treating the skeletal system (bones)

pedagogue

n. a teacher

pedant

n. a scholarly show-off

SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUM

to be

entity

n. something that has a real extistence

nonentity

n. a person or thing of no importance

essence

n. the basic element; the identifying characteristic

MORIOR, MORI, MORTUUM

to die

moribund

adj. about to die

mortify

v. to shame

postmortem

n. an autopsy

THANATOS

death

NASCOR, NASCI, NATUM

to be born

innate

adj. possessed at birth

naive

adj. childlike; gullible

nascent

adj. emerging; coming into existence

renaissance

n. a rebirth; a renewal