CLAS 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sug, Quintilis, Horace
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Assimilation- changing a word root to make it easier to pronounce next to another letter. Toward | similar | verbal and nominal suffixes. Last letter of prefix changes to match next letter corrode (con-rode) Last letter of prefix changes to an "easier" letter. An extra letter is added at the end. Opposite meanings ("to toward near" vs "away from, from" Protip: ab- may lose its "b," but its "b" never assimilates to other consonants. Only the "d" in ad- can do that. Il | leg | al = in | leg | al. Illuminate : to shed light into / in. Il | lumin | ate = in | lumin | ate. In addition to its spatial meaning (under, up from under"), sub- can also mean "slightly, not fully" Be careful: numerical roots are often used imprecisely: cardinal where you would expect ordinal and vice versa. Note: numerical prefixes can denote integers (whole numbers) as well as fractions.
