CIT"Y: Fr. _cite_, from Lat. _civitas_, a state or community.
CIV"ILIZED: Lat. _civilis_, pertaining to an organized community.
CLI"MATE: Gr. _klima, klimatos_, slope, the supposed slope of the earth from the Equator to the poles.
COAST: Old Fr. _coste_ (New Fr. _cote_), from Lat. _costa_, rib, side.
CON"FLUENCE: Lat. _con_, together, and _fluere_, to flow.
CON"TINENT: Lat. _con_, together, and _tenere_, to hold.
CON"TOUR: Lat. _con_, together, and _tornus_, a lathe.
COUN"TY: Fr. _comte_, from Lat. _comitatus_, governed by a count.
DEGREE": Lat. _de_, and _gradus_, a step
DIAM"ETER: Gr. _dia_, through, and _metron_, measure.
EQUA"TOR: Lat. _equus_, equal.
ES"TUARY: Lat. _aestuare_, to boil up, or be furious, the reference being to the commotion made by the meeting of a river-current and the tide.
FRIG"ID: Lat. _frigidus_, from _frigere_, to be cold.
GEOG"RAPHY: Gr. _ge_, the earth, and _graphe_, a description.
GLOBE: Lat. _globus_, a round body.
GULF: Fr. _golfe_, from Gr. _kolpos_, bosom, bay.
HAR"BOR: Anglo-Saxon, _hereberga_, from _beorgan_, to shelter.
HEM"ISPHERE: Gr. _hemi_, half, and _sphaira_, sphere.
HORI"ZON: Gr. _horizein_, to bound.
IN"DIAN (ocean): India.
ISTH"MUS: Gr. _isthmos_, a neck.
LAKE: Lat. _lacus_, a lake.
LAT"ITUDE: Lat. _lat.i.tudo_, from _latus_, broad.
LON"GITUDE: Lat. _longitudo_, from _longus_, long.
MERID"IAN: Lat. _meridies_ (= _medius_, middle, and _dies_, day), noon.
METROP"OLIS: Gr. _meter_, mother, and _polis_, city.
MON"ARCHY: Gr. _monarches_, from _monos_, alone, and _archein_, to rule.
MOUN"TAIN: Fr. _montagne_, from Lat. _mons_, _montis_, a mountain.
OB"LATE: Lat. _oblatus_ (_ob_ and past part. of _ferre_, to bring), brought forward.
O"CEAN: Gr. _okea.n.u.s_, from _okus_, rapid, and _nacin_, to flow.
PACIF"IC: Lat. _pacificus_, from _pax_, _pacis_, peace, and _facere_, to make.
PAR"ALLEL: Gr. _para_, beside, and _allelon_, of one another.
PENIN"SULA: Lat. _penes_, almost, and _insula_, island.
PHYS"ICAL: Gr. _physis_ (_phusis_), nature.
PLAIN: Lat. _pla.n.u.s_, flat.
PLANE: Lat. _pla.n.u.s_, flat.
POLE: Gr. _polos_, a pivot.
POLIT"ICAL: Gr. _polis_, a city or state.
PROM"ONTORY: Lat. _pro_, before, and _mons_, _montis_, a mountain.
RELIEF": Fr. _relever_, from Lat. _relevare_, to raise.
REPUB"LIC: Lat. _res_, an affair, and _publica_, public: that is, a _commonwealth_.
RIV"ER: Fr. _riviere_, from Lat. _ripa_, a sh.o.r.e or bank.
SAV"AGE: Fr. _sauvage_, from Lat. _silva_, a wood.
SEA: Anglo-Saxon, _sae_, the sea.
SOCI"ETY: Lat. _societas_, from _socius_, a companion.
2.--TERMS IN GRAMMAR.
AD"JECTIVE, Lat. _adjectivus_, from _ad_ and _jacere_, to add to: _a word joined to a noun or p.r.o.noun to limit or describe its meaning_.
AD"JUNCT, Lat. _adjunctus_, from _ad_ and _jungere_, to join to: _a modifier or subordinate element of a sentence_.
AD"VERB, Lat. _adverbium_, from _ad_, to, and _verb.u.m_, word, verb: _a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb_.
a.n.a.l"YSIS, Gr. _a.n.a.lusis_, from _ana_ and _luein_, to unloose, to resolve into its elements: _the separation of a sentence into its const.i.tuent elements_.