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Week 11: Aesopus.

Background | Background Quiz | Starting Assumptions | Resources | Extras
Vocabulary | Etymology | Grammar | Perseus Dictionary | Perseus Tool

Reading Overview | Reading Quiz: English
| Reading Quiz: Latin
Discussion Questions | Latin Composition | Weekly Checklist


Etymology Board

Choose four of the following words. For each word, note:

Please do not cut and paste from online dictionaries. You will certainly want to consult some dictionary (dictionary.com, yourdictionary.com, etc.), but please make sure that you write out the etymological explanation in your own words. Example:

tonsure: the way that monks and priests have their heads shaved; from Latin tondeo, tondere: to clip or shear (like sheep); the monks get their hair cut off like sheep getting shorn

When you are done, post your answers on the Etymology Discussion Board at Blackboard. You need to have posted your answers by Tuesday midnight.

aquiline
avenge
bibulous
calumny
cheese
clause
cockles
comestible
conjugal bliss
detonation
distemper
efface
eviscerate
fulgent
impugn
inoculation
insult
lupanar
mendacious
morsel
patent
pejorative
postulate
predacious
probation
querulous
rapine
recalcitrant
regurgitate
rivulet
rostrum
stultify
testament
vexation
vigilante
vindication


Modern Languages 4970 / MRS 4903: Medieval Latin. Spring 2003 Online Course at the University of Oklahoma. Visit http://www.ou.edu/online/ for more info.
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