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Swinton, William, 1833-1892

"New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words"

n. _pes'tis_, pest, plague).
LAT: ab'lative (literally, carrying away; the sixth case of Latin nouns);
collate' (-ion); dilate' (-ory); elate'; ob'late, _flattened at the poles_;
obla'tion, _an offering_; prel'ate; prel'acy; pro'late, _elongated at the
poles_; relate' (-ion, -ive); correla'tion; correl'ative; super'lative;
translate' (-ion); delay' (= dis + lat, through old Fr. verb _delayer_, to
put off).

72. FERVE'RE: fer'veo, _to boil_; Fermen'tum, _leaven_.
FERV: -ent, -ency, -id, -or; effervesce', _to bubble or froth up_;
efferves'cence.
FERMENT: fer'ment, -ation.

73. FES'TUS, _joyful, merry_.
FEST: -al, -ival, -ive, -ivity; feast (Old Fr. _feste_, a joyous meal);
fete (modern Fr. equivalent of _feast_), _a festival_; festoon (Fr. n.
_feston_, originally an ornament for a festival).

74. FID'ERE: fi'do, _to trust_; Fi'des, _faith_; Fide'lis, _trusty_.
FID: confide' (-ant, -ence, -ent, -ential); dif'fidence; dif'fident;
per'fidy (per = through and hence _away from_ good faith); perfid'ious.
FIDEL: fidel'ity; in'fidel; infidel'ity.
Fe'alty (Old Fr. n. _fealte_ = Lat. _fidel'itas_), _loy'alty_; fidu'cial
(Lat. n. _fidu'cia_, trust); fidu'ciary; affi'ance, _to pledge faith_, _to
betroth_; affida'vit (Low Lat., signifying, literally, he made oath), _a
declaration on oath_; defy' (Fr. v. _defier_, originally, to dissolve the
bond of allegiance; hence, to disown, to challenge, to brave).

75. FI'GERE: fi'go, fix'um, _to join, fix, pierce_.


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