SEQUOR, I follow.-SEQUUTUS, SECUTUS, or SECTUS, followed.

Sequel. Consequence, obsequies, obsequious, persecute, prosecute, subsequent.-Second, for secundus, (as if sequundus,) the one following the first in order.

SERO, I sow, set in order, connect; I connect words, that is, I discourse.-SERTUS, sown, or set in order.

Series. Assert, desert, desertion, dissertation, exert.—— Semen, the thing sown, seed; hence seminal, disseminate. [How does Seminary mean a school? Becanse, speaking figuratively, seeds of instruction are there sown.]

SERVO, I keep, I watch.

Serve, servant, servile.-Conserve, conservatory.-Observe, observation, preserve, reserve, reservation, subservient.

SEVERUS, harsh, rigid, severe.

"The letter b, is often changed into v*; thus severus, for seberus, which is compounded of the Greek words ricas, (sebas,) reverence, awe, and gw, (eiro,) I speak. Severus is applied adjectively, either to one that speaks with reverence, or to one whose words command reverence, which easily accounts for the verb assevero, I affirm solemnly; whence the English word asseveration.-Persevere, from persevero, I rigidly continue what I have commenced." See Salmon's Stemmata Latinitatis.

Deliver is another example, being a change from delibero, (see LIBER.) In like manner prove is changed from probo.

SIGNUM, a mark, a seal.-SIGNO, I use a seal,

I sign.

Sign, signet.-Assign, assignation, consign, design, insignia, resign, signify, (see FACIO.)

SIMILIS, like.-SIMILO, I make like.

Similar, similitude, simultaneous, simile, simulation, dissimulation. Assimilate.

SINE, without.

Sincere, for sincerus, (sine, and cera, wax.)--Sinecure. SISTO or STO*, I stand.-STETUS or STATUS, stood.

Assist, consist, consistence, consistory, desist, exist, insist, persist, resist, subsist.-Stability, instability, from stabilis, capable of standing; stall or stable, from stabulum, a place for standing.-Station, state, constant, circumstance, destine, distant, extant, instant, obstacle, obstinate, obstinacy.-Rest, for resto; superstition.-Solstice, (sol, the sun.)-Interstice, substance, substantive.

STATUO, I set, fix, appoint, decree.-STATUTUS, set.

[Statuo is changed into Stituo, and Statutus into Stitutus, when compounded.]

Statute, from statutum, a thing decreed; statue, from statua, an image fixed.-Constitute, constitution, destitute, institute, restitution, substitute.

SOCIUS, a companion.-SOCIO, I cause companions to meet.

Social, sociable, society.-Associate.

Sto may be considered as a contraction of Sisto.

SOLEO, I grow, I am wont or accustomed.-SOLITUS, grown.

Solid, from solidus, hardened by growth.-Consolidate. -Insoleo, I am unaccustomed, I feel strange, I am proud; hence insolent, insolence.

SOLVO, I loosen.—SOLUTUS, loosened.

Solve, soluble, solution.-Absolve, absolute, dissolve, dissolute, resolve, resolution.

SOLUM, that which supports or nourishes any thing.. Soil, sole.-Exile, desolate.-Solor, I support as the soil; hence solace, console, consolation, inconsolable.

SONUS, a noise.-SONO, I make a noise. Sound, sonorous, consonant, dissonant, dissonance, resound.

SPARGO, I sprinkle, I spread.-SPARSUS,

sprinkled.

[Spargo is changed into Spergo, and Sparsus into Spersus, when compounded.]

Asperse, aspersion, disperse, dispersion.

SPECIO or SPECTO, I see, I view.-SPECTUS,

seen.

[Specio is changed into Spicio, when compounded.] Species, appearance to the senses, any visible or sensible represention; hence it may mean, a single order of beings, a class in nature, as "we are no less animals though of a different species."-Specific, specify, (see FACIO.)-Specimen, a part of any thing shown to enable us to judge of the rest.-Specious, pleasing to the view, apparently right though not actually so, "as he employed many specious arguments."-Spectacle, any thing perceived by the sight,

or exhibited to view as eminently remarkable. Spectacles, are glasses employed to assist the sight; spectator, one who sees; spectre, something made preternaturally visible; speculate, to take a view of any thing in the mind; speculation, mental view, or a mental scheme not reduced to practice.-Aspect, circumspect, conspicuous, despise, expect, inspect, prospect, respect, suspect.

SPIRO, I breathe.

Spirit, spiritual.-Aspire, conspire, conspiracy, expire, inspire, perspire, respire, transpire.

SPONDEO, I promise, betroth.-SPONSUS, pro

mised.

Sponsor, one who makes a promise for another, one who answers for a child at the time of baptism, a godfather.-Spouse, from sponsus, a man betrothed.Despond, response, correspond.-Spontaneous, from spons, spontis, one who promises willingly.

STINO, I fix.

Destine, destination, predestination, obstinate.

STRUES, a pile.-STRUO, I form a pile, I build. STRUCTUS, piled.

Structure. Construct, construe, destroy, instruct, instrument, obstruct. Superstructure.-Industry, industrious, from industrius, one who is ever active in building up, or doing something.

SUM, 1 am.-ESSE, to be.-ENS, ENTIS, being.-FUTURUS, about to be.

Entity, a real being. Non-entity, (non, not,) a thing not

existing. Absent, absence.-Interest.-present, presence, represent, representation.-Potent, for potens, (potes, able, ens, being,) being able, powerful.-Essence. Future, futurity.

SUMO, I take.-SUMPTUS, taken.

Sumptuous, from sumptuosus, taken to excess, costly, expensive. Assume, consume, consumption, presume, presumptuous, resume.

T.

TANGO, I touch.-TACTUS, touched. [Tango is changed into Tingo, when compounded.] CONTACT, Contiguous, contingent: contagion, from contages, the touch of a disease.-Contaminate, from contagmen, an impure touch; integer, integral, entire, from integer, untouched, undiminished; integrity, from integritas, soundness or purity of manners, as being untouched or unstained.

TENDO, I stretch, bend, direct.-TENSUS or TENTUS, bent.

Tend, tension.-Attend, attention, contend, contention, distend, distention, extend, extention, intend, intention, pretend, pretension, portend.

TENEO, I hold.-TENTUS, held.

[Teneo is changed into Tineo, when compounded.] Tenacious, tenacity.-Tenant, one who holds of another; tenement, any thing held by a tenant; tenure, the act of holding; tenet, a principle which one holds.Tenor or tenour, denotes continuity of state, as "the