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Latin & Greek Roots
Unit 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| joc (jocus) | joke |
| jocose | cheerful; merry |
| jocular | characterized by joking |
| fest, fet (festus) | festive |
| festoon | to drape or adorn festively |
| fete | to honor with a banquet or feast |
| bacch | from the Roman god of celebration (Bacchus) |
| bacchic | of or related to a wild celebration |
| bacchanal | a drunken party or celebration |
| plaint (plangere, planctus) | to lament |
| plaintive | sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness |
| plaint | a lament or complaint |
| eleg (elegos) | song of lament |
| elegy | a song or poem memorializing something or someone |
| elegiac | mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful |