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a strange appearance, foretelling something to come. -Demonstrate, remonstrate, remonstrance.

MORS, MORTIS, death.

Mortal, mortality.-Immortal, immortality.--Mortify,

mortification.

MOVEO, I stir, move.-MOTUS, moved.

Motion, movement.-Moment, momentum, from momentum, that which produces motion; mobile, from mobilis, capable of moving.-Commotion, emotion, promote, remove, remote.

MUSA, a song. A muse*.

Muse, museum, from museum, a place for the muses, a library, a repository of curiosities.-Musical, musician, music, from musica, the science of sounds, amuse. MUTO, I change.

Mutable, mutation, mutual, from mutuus, (two persons exchanging,) acting in return.-Commute, immutable, permutation, transmute.

N.

NAVIS, a ship.

NAVAL, nautical, from nauta, (for navita,) a sailor.-Navigate, circumnavigate.—Nausea, nauseate, from nausea, sea-sickness.

NECTO, I join.-NECTUS or NEXUS, linked. Annex, connect, connexion or connection.

The Muses were feigned by the ancient poets to be daughters of the heathen god Jupiter, and to preside over the sciences.

NOCEO, I hurt.

Noxious.-obnoxious.-Innocent, innocence.

NOVUS, new.

Novel, novice. -Innovate, renovate.

NOX, NOCTIS, night.

Nocturnal. Equinox, equinoctial.

NUBO, 1 marry.--NUPTUS, married. Nuptial, from nuptialis, belonging to marriage.-Connubial, from connubialis, belonging to wedlock.

NUMERUS, measure, quantity.

Number, numerous, numeration.-Enumerate, innumerable.-Supernumerary.

NUNCIO, I bear a message, I declare. Numerate.-Announce, denounce, enunciate, pronounce,

renounce.

0.

OLEO, I yield a smell, I grow.

ABOLISH, abolition.-Adult, adolescence, coalesce, coalition.

ORIOR, I rise.

Orient, oriental, from oriens, the place of the sun's rising, the East; origin, from origo, the place of rising. -Order.-Abortion.-Exordium.-Primordial, (formed of primus, the first, and ordior*, I begin,) existing from the beginning.-Ordain, ordination, from

*Ordior is from orior, with the insertion of d.

ordino, I put in order; ordinary, from ordinarius,
placed in order.-Extraordinary.

ORNO, I deck.

Ornament.-Adorn, suborn.

OS, ORIS, the mouth.—ORO, I use the mouth, I
speak, I pray.

Oral, oraison, oracle, orator, oration, peroration.-Adore,
adoration.-Inexorable.

P.

PAR, like.-PARO, I make like, I make ready.
PARITY.-Compare, comparison, disparity, impair, pre-
pare, repair, reparation, separate.-Impero, I order to
prepare, I command; hence emperor, (for imperator,)
the person who commands.-Imperious, imperial, im-
perative.

PARS, PARTIS, a share, portion.

Particle, for particula, a little part; particular, parti-
tion, portion, (for partio,) proportion.-Participation,
(see CAPIO.)--Impart.

PATER, PATRIS, a father.

Paternal, patrimony.-Patron, for patronus,

one who
stands in the place of a father.-Patro, I father a
work, I perform; hence perpetratc.-Patricide, (see
Серо.)

PATIOR, I suffer.-PASSUS, suffered.

Passion, compassion.-Patient, patience, (from patiens,
suffering;) impatient, impatience.-Passive.

PAX, PACIS, peace.

Pacify, pacific, pacification, (see FACIO.)

PELLO, I drive.-PULSUS, driven.

Compel, compulsion, dispel, expel, expulsion, impel, impulse, propel, propulsion, repel, repulsion. Pulso, I drive, or shake often; hence pulse, pulsation.

PENDO or PENDEO, I hang.—PENSUS, hung. Appendix, depend, impend, propensity.-Pendulum, for pendulus, something that hangs perpendicular; pendo, I hang weights, I weigh.-Depend, expend, expense, suspend, suspension.-Compendium.-Stipend.

PES, PEDIS, a foot.

Pedestrian.-Expedite, expedition, impede, impediment.

PETO, I desire, I seek, I suit.-PETITUS, desired.

Petition, for petitio, the act of seeking.-Appetite, competition, competence, impetuous, repeat.

PIUS, devout, dutiful.

Piety.-Impiety, impious, expiate.

PLANO, I make even.

Plane, plain,-Explain, explanation.

PLANTU, I set.

Plant, plantation.-Supplant, transplant.

PLAUDO, I make a noise by clapping my hands in token of applause, I praise.

Plaudit. Applaud, applause.-Plausible, from plausibilis, apparently deserving of applause, seemingly fair.

PLECTO, I twist.-PLEXUS, twisted.;

Complex, perplex, perplexity.

PLEO, I fill.—PLETUS, filled.—PLENUS, full.

Plenty, plenitude.-Complete or compleat, complement, depletion, expletive, incomplete, replete, supply, supplement.

PLICO, I fold.-PLICATUS, folded.

Apply, application, comply, complication, display, duplicate, explicit, explication, implicit, inexplicable, implicate, supplicate.-Multiply, multiplication, (see MULTUS.) Reply, supplicate.-Quadruple, (quater, four times,) quintuple, (quinque, five,) triple, (tres, three.)-Simple, for simplex, (sim for sine, without,) one without a fold; figuratively, a person without deceit.

POENA, punishment.-PUNIO, 1 chastise.

Pain, punish, impunity.-Pœnito, I feel pain, I feel sorrow, (for my fault;) hence penitent, penitence, impenitent.

PONO*, I place.-POSUI, I have placed.-POSITUS, placed.

Position, posture.-Apposition, compose, depose, deposit, deponent, dispose, predispose, exponent, expose,

* In the English dictionaries we find "Post, s. a messenger, a situation, a military station, a piece of timber, an office or employment." "Post, v. to travel with speed, to register methodically, (for example, to post a ledger,) to place, to fix." We also find "Postage, postboy, post-office, post-chaise." When readers, unacquainted with Latin, find this assemblage of words, they are at a loss to discover the connection which exists between the various definitions of Post considered as a substantive and as a verb. If they be informed that pono

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