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Latin Words In English Disguise

Created by chrissie_26

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Latin Words In English Disguise game quiz
"Whether we like it or not , the English language still has a lot of its roots in good old Latin. Even our videoclips are from Latin.(Video= I see.) In this quizz the hints work like this: V(3)O = V+3letters+O = VIDEO."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. If you feel pain in your loins ( Lt. lumbi), you may suffer from L(5)O =?
    Answer: (One Word)


2. At the entrance of the throat there is a little grapelike thing ( grape= Lt.uva),which doctors and linguists would call the U(3)A =?
    Answer: (One Word)


3. People from the city ( Lt.urbs) were considered to be more polite, more U(4)E than those from the countryside. =?
    Answer: (One Word)


4. If you are a lil dizzy, and you feel as if you were going to be turned over ( Lt.vertere),you are probably having a bout of V(5)O =?
    Answer: (One Word)


5. People who want to come together( Lt. convenire) to live as a religious community, will have to join or found a C(5)T =?
    Answer: (One Word)


6. When the waves( Lt.unda) come flowing in, you may soon get an I(8)N =?
    Answer: (One Word)


7. If they think ( Lt.putare) you are the begetter,they will call you the P(6)E father.=?
    Answer: (One Word)


8. Pasta that looks like little worms ( Lt.vermes), was called V(8)I by the Italians and is referred to with that word in English too. =?
    Answer: (One Word)


9. If you produce a lot of off-spring (Lt. proles),you are P(6)C =?
    Answer: (One Word)


10. Even the oil (Lt.oleum) that gushed from rocks (Lt. petrus ;Greek petros ) got a name that smells of Latin: P(4)L =?
    Answer: (One Word)


11. People who have a small (Lt.pusillus) soul (Lt. animus), might be called P(11)S =?
    Answer: (One Word)


12. An old (Lt.vetus) habit can be called an I(8)E one. =?
    Answer: (One Word)


13. And an old (Lt.vetus) soldier is of course a V(5)N =?
    Answer: (One Word)


14. Some mammals give birth (Lt.parere)to their offspring via the production of eggs (Lt.ovum).They are called O(7)S =?
    Answer: (One Word)


15. If you feel pain in your breast (Lt. pectus) , you can say you have P(6)L complaints. =?
    Answer: (One Word)


16. When you like to be with the rest of the group, with the flock (Lt. grex) you are G(8)S =?
    Answer: (One Word)


17. A female voice that is higher(Lt. supra) than most,is called a S(5)O =?
    Answer: (One Word)


18. A person who does not want to be mainstream and kind of sit (Lt.sedere) away (Lt.dis) from the others, would in the Soviet Union have been called a D(7)T =?
    Answer: (One Word)


19. A fruit that is full of juice (Lt. sugus) is S(7)T =?
    Answer: (One Word)


20. A plant that smells like hay ( Lt.fenum) and is Greek (Lt.graecum)in origin, became popular in some styles of cookery and is , in English ,called F(7)K =?
    Answer: (One Word)

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