Wigtil's "Latin via Caesar"

C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico

Word List, Book One, Paragraph One


Here is a list of the vocabulary in BG I.I, showing vocabulary meaning and the relationship(s) to English vocabulary for each item. Note that the term "derivative" specifies a word originally in Latin and later taken into English from Latin or one of the languages directly descended from Latin, like French or Spanish; such vocabulary elements might be called "children" of Latin words. Note, too, that the term "cognate" means a word that comes to English from Indo-European (the hypothesized language ancestral to most European-originating languages) via the Germanic side of the ancestry of English and showing strong relationships to Latin vocabulary, but not itself drawn from Latin or its descendant languages; words of this sort might be termed "cousins" to Latin vocabulary, since they share a common parentage.
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diuidere
Approximate meaningDivide, separate.
Etymology/sourceIndo-European hypothetical root weidh-, and Latin prefix dis- of uncertain origin.
Derivatives/English childrenDivide, divisive, division, dividend, divisor.
Cognates/English cousinsWidow.
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est
Approximate meaningIs.
Etymology/sourceIndo-European hypothetical form esti.
Derivatives/English children[The abbreviation] "i.e." (id est), essence, essential, quintessence, quintessential.
Cognates/English cousinsIs, are.
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Gallia
Approximate meaningGaul [roughly the area of modern France].
Etymology/sourcePresumably from same root that Celtae and Galatia (both of them Celtic names) are drawn from.
Derivatives/English childrenGaul; de Gaulle; Gallic; Gaulois.
Cognates/English cousins[unknown].
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in
Approximate meaningIn, into, on.
Etymology/sourcePresumably from same root that Celtae and Galatia (both of them Celtic names) are drawn from.
Derivatives/English childrenGaul; de Gaulle; Gallic; Gaulois.
Cognates/English cousins[unknown].
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omnis
Approximate meaningAll, entire.
Etymology/sourceIndo-European hypothetical root op-.
Derivatives/English childrenOmnipotent, omniscient, omnirange, omnibus, bus.
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pars
Approximate meaningPart, section, side.
Etymology/sourceIndo-European hypothetical root ??? lkhjjkh lkjh lkjh lkhlkjh lkjhlkjh lkjhlkjh lkjhlkjhlk jhlkjhlkjhlkjhlkjh lkjh lkjhlkjh lkhj lkjh lkjhlkhjlkjh lkhjlkhj lhj .
Derivatives/English childrenPart, partial, compartment, impart, depart.
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