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medi-terraneus(medius, stem medio-, middle, + 



terra, land) , between lands ; 

 heredi-peta(heredium, legacy,-\-pet-ere, hunt), 



legacy -hit nter ; 

 offici-perda (officium, office, perd-ere, lose), 



labor-losing. 



The same analogy has forced itself through in the case of 

 consonant stems as well, so that a connecting vowel -2- is 

 inserted between the consonant stem and the second mem- 

 ber: 1 e. g. 



part-i-ceps (pars, stem part-, fart, + cap-ere, 



take), sharing; 

 dent-i-f rangibulus (dens, stem dent-, tooth, -j- 



frang-ere, break), tooth-breaking; 

 soror-i-cida (soror, stem soror-, sister, -\- c a e d- 



ere, kill), sister-slayer ; 

 fratr-i-cida (frater, stem fratr-, brother, -f- c a e d- 



ere, kill), brother-slayer. 



The treatment of the first member is the same for both 

 nouns and adjectives. 



The final member of a Latin substantivwm composition 

 may be a substantive (noun, adjective, participle) or a verb, 

 and the whole will appear, according to the will of the 

 coiner, as noun or adjective; its form will be decided by 



1 Rarely, instead of adding -i-, the consonant stem loses its consonant: e. g. 

 iu-dex, (ius, stem iur-, taw, + dic-ere, speak); but it seemed unnatural 

 and so a iur-i-dic-us was made according to rule, with the same mean- 

 ing; in the same way lapi-cida (lapis, stem lapid-, stone, -f-caed-ere, 

 cut) was also followed in due time by the normal lapid-i-cida, stone-cutter. 

 The forms with the connecting vowel -i- are by far the most numerous; 

 they are the only ones that we may take as our models, for, analogous forms 

 though they are, they represent the only method of formation in use in class- 

 ical times. The older method, of which only a few specimens are left, was 

 simply to prefix the stem of the first member to the second and leave the con- 

 sonant to take care of itself: e. g. 



sol-stitium (sol), solstice ; 



mus-cipula (mus), mouse-trap; 



nomen-clator (nomen), name-caller. 



