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109 Cards in this Set

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Polis

City state

Rex

King

Senate

Council of old men

Urbs

City

Civis

Citizen

Municipium

A town

Abduct

To carry off

Alias

An assumed name

Alibi

Plea that one was elsewhere

Assault

A leap upon/at

Culpable

Deserving of blame, guilty

Exonerate

To declare free of blame

Extortion

To ontain money but threat or force

Penitentiary

Prison

Incarcerate

To imprison

Amicus curiae

Friend of the court

Bona fide

In good faith

Mala fide

In bad faith

Caveat emptor

Let the buyer bewars

Caveat scriptor

Let the signer beware

Compos mentis

Of sound mind

Habeas corpus

Have the body, protection of civil liberty

Pro bono

For the public good

Qui facit per alium facit per se

One who does something through another does it by himself

Sic semper tyrannis

Virginia motto, means thus always to tyrants

Esto perpetua

Idaho motto, let it be forever

Eureka

California motto, I have found it!

Ipsi dixit

Literally means he himself said, today means an unsupported assertion, usually by a person of authority

Ipso facto

Literally means by the fact/facts itself, today means pretty much the same thijg

Bona fide

Literally means in good faith, today it means genuine, real, undertaken in good faith

Ad hominem

Literally means to the man, today means directed against a person

Ad rem

Literally means to the matter, today means pertinent, to the point

Ov/ovi

Egg

Aster

Star

Gastero/gastro

Stomach

Larynx/laryng/laryngo

The larynx

Tom

Cut

Psycho

Soul, mind

oste

bone

my

muscle/mouse

lymph

spring water

card/cardio

heart

cyst/cysto

bladder

metro/meter

measure

ot/oto

ear

media

middle

rhin/rhino

nose

rrhea

flow/discharge

logo

word

entero

intestine

acid

sharp

alti

high

apert

opening

arid

dry

compet

striving

confid

trust

conscript

enroll/enlist

correct

rule/guide

eras

rub out

ferv

heat/flow

fus

melt/flow

grati

thanks

humid

etw

invent

come upon/find

invest

to put on clothes

liberal

generous

magni

big/large

object

to throw against

pall

pale

sculpt

carve

sequ

follow

stup

be motionless

asin

donkey

audi

hear

can

dog

flex

bend

frag

break

gel

frost/ice

glor

fame

infant

can't speak

juven

young

leon

lion

morb

sick

naviga

sail (a boat)

pecuni

money

sen

old

ven

vein

verb

word

vir

man/male

y

act of

oid

similar to

itis

inflammation

sis

condition or abnormal condition

oma

an abnormal swelling; a tumor

ize

makes a verb of nouns and adjectvies

graph/gram

write

ence

quality, state, condition

ion

action, condition caused by an action

ity

condition, state

or

agent, doer

or

condition

tude

condition, state

ure

action or result of action

ble

having capacity, capability

id

in the condition of

ile

having capability or capacity

ine

having the nature of

ose/ous

full of

neologisms

the coining/minting of new words/phrases