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Caesar’s English II: Vocabulary From Latin
Lesson V
Review Words from Caesar’s English I
1. loco – place (locomotion, location, dislocate)
6. circum – around (circus, circumpolar)
2. sur – over (surface, surrealist, surfeit)
7. mal – bad (malcontent, malign, malapropism)
3. alter – other (alteration, alternative, altruism)
8. post – after (postgraduate, posterior, postlude)
4. contra – against (contradiction, contrast, contrary)
9. equi – equal (equation, equinox, equitable)
5. stell – star (stellar, constellation, interstellar)
10. ante – before (antedate, ante meridian)
LOCO means place. Locomotives move (mot) from place to place; a location is a place, and to dislocate
something is to put it out of place.
SUR means over. The surface of the sea is over the rest; a surrealist is an artist who depicts things beyond
ordinary reality; and a surfeit is an excess.
ALTER means other. An alteration is to make something other than what it was; an alternative is another
option, and altruism is thinking of others.
CONTRA means against. To contradict someone is to speak against what they have said; a contrast is a
difference between two things, and to be contrary is to go against what is desired of you by others.
STELL means star. The stellar surface is the surface of the star; a constellation is a group of stars, and
interstellar space, is the deep space between the stars.
Advanced Word: Altruism
The word altruism (AL-troo-izm) contains the Latin stems alter (other) and ism (doctrine). Altruism is the
opposite of selfishness and geocentricism; it is the ability to do things that are selfless, or of a genuine
concern for others, or for the common good.
Caesar’s Usage: Vocabulary can be altered in order to use them as different parts of speech.
Noun
Altruism
Surfeit
Surrealist
Dislocation
Malapropism
Circumlocution
Adjective
Altruistic
Surfeited
Surreal
Dislocated
Equitable
Verb
-Surfeit
Circumlocutory
Circumlocute
Adverb
Altruistically
Surreally
Dislocated
Equitably
Pick one example from each column above, and write a good sentence using it.