Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson III. VITA means life. Something is vital if it is full of life. Vitamins...

Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson IIIAncient Latin Stems, Lesson III

VITA means life. Something is vital if it is full of life. Vitamins keep us alive;

and to revitalize a neighborhood is to fix it up and bring it back to life!

VID means look. We look at videos; evidence is brought out to look at, and we provide for the future by looking (vid) forward (pro)!

PATER means father. Paternal behavior is fatherly, a patriarch is the male head of the family, and to be an expatriate is to live outside the fatherland!

MATRI means mother. Maternal means motherly, a matriarch is a female head of the family, and matrimony is marriage!

POP means people. You are popular when people like you; the population is the people, and a populous region is full of people!

Advanced Word: PatriarchThe word patriarch (PAY-tree-ark) contains the Latin stems patri (father) and arch (rule). A patriarch is a fatherly figure who rules a family. Sometimes a family has a matriarch instead of a patriarch, and in that case the family leader is a female, such as a strong grandmother.

Ancient Latin Stems, Ancient Latin Stems, Lesson IIILesson III

stem meaning examplesvita (life) vital, vitamin, revitalize

vid (look) video, evidence, provide

pater (father) paternal, patriarch, expatriate

matri (mother) maternal, matriarch,matrimony

pop (people) popular, populations, populous

AnalogiesAnalogies

VITAL: MORBID::

a. patriarch : matriarch

b. populous : people

c. evidence : courtroom

d. matrimony : mother

Solve.

EXPATRIATE : COUNTRY ::

a. paternal : attitude

b. revitalize : dilapidated

c. abandon : ship

d. provide : neglect

Caesar’s Antonyms: Find the best opposite.

REVITALIZE VITALa. raze a. revivedb. revive b. vilifyc. improve c. vivaciousd. review d. moribund

Caesar’s Context: Find the best word to complete the sentence.

Ovid fled Rome and lived as an ______ far away, never to return.

a. exceptionb. anarchistc. patriarchd. expatriate

The venerable Cicero was the honored ________ of his family.

a. patriarchb. expatriatec. populationd. advocates

Gradually, the dilapidated areas were ________ under the new policy.

a. adaptedb. adheredc. transferredd. revitalized

The Grammar of Vocabulary: expatriate, a noun or a verb.

In his last years, Ovid was an expatriate in Tomis.

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