Latin Recommended Basic Vocabulary


Nouns and Related Words: People

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People
English Latin
young man adulescens, adulescent-
common people, lowest class of free men in Rome plebs
chief princeps, princip-
servant minister, ministr-
senate senatus
origin, beginning principium
give birth pario, peperi, partus
heir heres, hered-
obey, appear pareo, parui, paritus
son filius
clan, breed, class gens gent-
boy puer
old man senex, sen-
mother mater, matr-
human humanus
brother frater fratr-
comrade, companion comes, comit-
people populus
girl puella
father pater, patr-
prepare paro, paravi, paratus
violence, force vis, vir-
woman mulier
mistress domina
disturb, throw into confusion, rout turbo, turbavi, turbatus
mob, throng, tumult turba
nephew, descendant nepos, nepot-
poor man, pauper pauper
woman, female femina
foreigner, barbarian barbarus
fatherland patria
race, birth, kind genus, gener-
virgin, maiden virgo, virgin-
offspring proles
parent parens, parent-
ally, friend socius
family familia
the crowd, common herd vulgus
courage virtus virtut-
stranger, guest hospes, hospit-
publish, announce, make public vulgo, vulgavi, vulgatus
old age senectus, senectut-
neighbor vicinus
son-in-law gener
daughter filia
sister soror
master dominus
give birth to gigno, genui, genitus
servant, slave famulus
man as opp. to woman vir
man as opp. to animal homo, homin-



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