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levi-fidus (Urns, light, fides, faith) of little faith 

 per-dius (per, through, dies, day) throughout the day 

 ex-spes (ex, out of, spes, hope) hopeless 



II. If the last term is an adjective, it will not be changed, though 



noun suffixes may be added to it, thus making a sub- 

 stantive. 



igni-potens (ignis, fire, potcus, powerful) potent in fire 

 aequi-par (aequus, even, par, equal) perfectly equal 

 semi-sepultus (semi, half, sepultus, buried) half buried 

 anim-aequus (animus, mind, aequus, even) not easily moved 

 albo-gilvus (albus, white, gilvus, pale-yellow) whitish yellow 

 longi-vivax (longus, long, vivax, tenacious of life) long- 

 lived 



III. If the last term is a verbal stem, the compound may be a 



noun of the first or third declension, or an adjective of 



three terminations or one termination. 

 limi-cola (limus, mud, colo, dwell) a mud-dweller 

 lapi-cida (lapis, lapidis, stone, caedo, cut) a stone-cutter 

 tubi-cen (tuba, trumpet, cano, sing) a trumpeter 

 man-ceps (manus, hand, capio, take) purchaser 

 frugi-legus (frux, frugis, fruit, lego, collect) fruit-gathering 

 herbi-gradus (herba, grass, gradior, go) going in the grass 

 multi-fidus (multus, many, findo, cleave) many-cleft 

 gemmi-fer (gemma, bud, fero, bear) bearing buds 

 spini-ger (spina, thorn, gero, bear) thorn-bearing 



THE CONNECTIVE 



The connecting vowel, -'-, has been so extended in Latin that 

 the language practically knows no other connective. An -o- has 

 found its way into some words after the analogy of Greek com- 

 pounds, but these, as well as those in which the connecting vowel 

 is -M-, are so rare that all connectives other than -i- may be 

 entirely disregarded. 



THE FIRST TERM 



The first term of the compound in Latin may be a nominal 

 stem (noun or adjective), an indeclinable (adverb, preposition, 



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