Word-Building2023

Excerpt from Word-Building: Fifty Lessons, Combining Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, Into About Fifty-Five Hundred Common Derivative Words in English; With a Brief History of the English Language One of the cogent reasons for studying Latin is, that it helps the student to a knowledge of the Latin derivatives in English. But one does not study Latin solely or chie y to learn its connection with English. The study of Latin in college is always with other aims. We hazard nothing in saying that one utterly ignorant of Latin and Greek would. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."