matter of detail in connection with the Latin and Greek derivatives,
the author wishes to call special attention: the Latin and the Greek roots
are, as key-words, given in this book in the form of the _present
infinitive_,--the present indicative and the supine being, of course,
added. For this there is one sufficient justification, to wit: that the
present infinitive is the form in which a Latin or a Greek root is always
given in Webster and other received lexicographic authorities. It is a
curious fact, that, in all the school etymologies, the present indicative
should have been given as the root, and is explicable only from the
accident that it is the key-form in the Latin dictionaries. The change into
conformity with our English dictionaries needs no defense, and will
probably hereafter be imitated by all authors of school etymologies.

In this compilation the author has followed, in the main, the last edition
of Webster's Unabridged, the etymologies in which carry the authoritative
sanction of Dr. Mahn; but reference has constantly been had to the works of
Wedgwood, Latham, and Haldeman, as also to the "English Etymology" of Dr.
James Douglass, to whom the author is specially indebted in the Greek and
Anglo-Saxon sections.

W.S.

NEW YORK, 1879.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

INTRODUCTION. PAGE

I. ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY 1
II. ETYMOLOGICAL CLASSES OF WORDS 5
III. PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES 5
IV. RULES OF SPELLING USED IN FORMING DERIVATIVE WORDS 6

PART II.

THE LATIN ELEMENT.
I. LATIN PREFIXES 9
II. LATIN SUFFIXES 12
III. DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATIN DERIVATIVES 21
LATIN ROOTS AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES 23
DIVISION I. METHOD OF STUDY 23
DIVISION II. ABBREVIATED LATIN DERIVATIVES 50

PART III.

THE GREEK ELEMENT.

I. GREEK PREFIXES 105
II. GREEK ALPHABET 106
GREEK ROOTS AND ENGLISH DERIVATIVES 107
DIVISION I. PRINCIPAL GREEK ROOTS 107
DIVISION II. ADDITIONAL G