_civitas_, a state or community.
CIV'ILIZED: Lat. _civilis_, pertaining to an organized community.
CLI'MATE: Gr. _klima, klimatos_, slope, the supposed slope of the earth
from the Equator to the poles.
COAST: Old Fr. _coste_ (New Fr. _cote_), from Lat. _costa_, rib, side.
CON'FLUENCE: Lat. _con_, together, and _fluere_, to flow.
CON'TINENT: Lat. _con_, together, and _tenere_, to hold.
CON'TOUR: Lat. _con_, together, and _tornus_, a lathe.
COUN'TY: Fr. _comte_, from Lat. _comitatus_, governed by a count.
DEGREE': Lat. _de_, and _gradus_, a step
DIAM'ETER: Gr. _dia_, through, and _metron_, measure.
EQUA'TOR: Lat. _equus_, equal.
ES'TUARY: Lat. _aestuare_, to boil up, or be furious, the reference being to
the commotion made by the meeting of a river-current and the tide.
FRIG'ID: Lat. _frigidus_, from _frigere_, to be cold.
GEOG'RAPHY: Gr. _ge_, the earth, and _graphe_, a description.
GLOBE: Lat. _globus_, a round body.
GULF: Fr. _golfe_, from Gr. _kolpos_, bosom, bay.
HAR'BOR: Anglo-Saxon, _hereberga_, from _beorgan_, to shelter.
HEM'ISPHERE: Gr. _hemi_, half, and _sphaira_, sphere.
HORI'ZON: Gr. _horizein_, to bound.
IN'DIAN (ocean): India.
ISTH'MUS: Gr. _isthmos_, a neck.
LAKE: Lat. _lacus_, a lake.
LAT'ITUDE: Lat. _latitudo_, from _latus_, broad.
LON'GITUDE: Lat. _longitudo_, from _longus_, long.
MERID'IAN: Lat. _meridies_ (= _medius_, middle, and _dies_, day), noon.
METROP'OLIS: Gr. _meter_, mother, and _polis_, city.
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