MUL'TIPLE, Lat. _multiplex_, from _multus_, much, and _plicare_, to fold.
MUL'TIPLY, MULTIPLICATION, etc. See _multiple_.
NAUGHT, Anglo-Sax. _nawhit_, from _ne_, not, and _awiht_ or _auht_, aught,
anything.
NOTA'TION, Lat. _notatio_, from _notare_, to mark (_nota_, a mark).
NUMERA'TION, Lat. _numeratio_, from _numerus_, a number.
QUO'TIENT, Lat. _quoties_, how often, how many times, from _quot_, how
many.
SUBTRACTION, Lat. _subtractio_, from _sub_ and _trahere_, to draw from
under.
U'NIT, Lat. _unus_, one.
ZE'RO, Arabic _cifrun_, empty, cipher.
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NOTES.
[1] To teachers who are unacquainted with the original _Word-Analysis_, the
following extract from the Preface to that work may not be out of place:--
"The treatment of the Latin derivatives in Part II. presents a new and
important feature, to wit: the systematic analysis of the structure and
organism of derivative words, together with the statement of their primary
meaning in such form that the pupil inevitably perceives its relation with
the root, and in fact _makes_ its primary meaning by the very process of
analyzing the word into its primitive and its modifying prefix or suffix.
It presents, also, a marked improvement in the method of approaching the
definition,--a method by which the definition is seen to _grow out of_ the
primary meaning, and by which the analytic faculty of the pupil is
exercised in tracing the transition from the primary meaning to the
secondary and figurative meanings,--thus converting what is ordinarily a
matter of rote into an agreeable exercise of the thinking faculty.
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