Flashcards: Latin Derivatives


sententious

 

1) expressing much in a few words; 2) speaking or writing as if one were a judge deciding a case; 3) full of or fond of using maxims or proverbs

 

ired of his "words of wisdom," she called him "a sententious old coot" and left the room.

 

Related English word: sententiousness

 

Latin root words: sententiosus, sententiosa, sententiosum - meaningful; pithy; sententia, sententiae, f. - feeling, opinion, motto

 

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