FUNDAMENTAL WORDS OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, ADAPTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE STUDENT BY MEANS OF DERIVATIONS AND DERIVATIVES, PASSAGES FROM THE CLASSICAL WRITERS, AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS. BY F. VALPY, M. A. TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER, AVE MARIA LANE. 1826. ΤΟ R. VALPY, D.D. F. A.S. WHO THROUGH A LONG AND USEFUL LIFE HAS ASSIDUOUSLY AND SUCCESSFULLY LABORED TO SIMPLIFY THE ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL KNOWLEGE, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF ESTEEM AND AFFECTION, BY THE AUTHOR. SHORTLY WILL BE PUBLISHED, THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE, AS FAR AS IT IS DERIVED EITHER FROM ITSELF Intended chiefly for the higher classes of Grammar Schools. BY F. VALPY, M. A. TRIN. COLL. CAMB. (A Specimen of the Work is here subjoined.) Sabbatum, a sabbath: ráß βατον Sabulum, gravelly soil: for satibulum fr. sero, satum, as Sto, Statum, Stabulum. ARENA is thin and barren; SABULUM is more thick and moist, and is more fit for producing seed,'' F. That is, it is more fit for SOWING. Or sabulum is a diminutive of sabus for samus fr. ψάμος, ψάμμος, sand Saburra, sand for ballast: fr. sabulum. Some trace it to Celt. sabr Saccharum, sugar: cáxxagov Sacerdos, a priest fr. sacer. Compare Dulcedo, Viridis, Pallidus. Or fr. sacra do Sacrilegus, sacrilegious: qui sacra legit. Vel quæ sublegi tacitus tibi carmina nuper,' Virg. Sæculum, an age: for secuculum or seququlum fr. sequor, from one age following or succeeding another. Or a diminutive of sacum fr. aiwv, (an age) I 2 wh. aum, aCum, (as σréos, speCus), sacum (as pw, Sero) Sæpe, often: fr. sæpes or sepes, a hedge. A rustic word of ancient date; for, as (sæpes) a hedge is thick, they expressed OFTEN by sæpe, thickly,' S. Sapes: See Sepes *Savus, cruel: 'for scavus,' V. F. Scavus is, untoward, perverse; was savus primarily applied to one of untoward, peevish, angry, harsh temper? From σeuw, I am furious,' A. Saga, a wise woman, witch; sagax, quick-scented; applied to the mind, sagacious: from sagio, (wh. præsagio,) I have keen perception or discernment Sagena, a fishing net: σayŋŋ Sagina, meat for cramming animals: fr. σαγῶ, f. 2. οἱ σάττω, I cram, stuff Sagitta, a dart: fr. axiory, pointed, fr. axilw. Acista, acitta, (as TT for loτıç) sacitta (as eg, Sero), sagitta. V. compares Segesta fr. 'Axéστu Sagmen, vervain, herba pura: for sagimen fr. ayios, pure 'Est arena hinc inde jacta sparsaque et quasi SEMINATA,' V. 2 Comp. avum fr. alwv. |