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Latin & Greek Roots
Unit 5
Term | Definition |
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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 |