Word origins

• quint-Five.
• QuintilisThe month of the ancient Roman calendar which became July, the fifth month when the year began with March and the seventh after it began with January.
• quintuplexSynonym of quintuple in its various senses.
• quod nonSomething that is not true.
• radiculeA radicle.
• rastrumA five-pointed writing implement used to draw parallel lines of a staff in sheet music.
• ratiunculeA ratio very close to unity.
• rectrixA governess; a rectoress.
• redemptrixA female redeemer.
• regeneratrixA female regenerator.
• regius professorA professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron.
• relatrixA female relator.
• reptationA creeping movement.
• responsorA receiver used in conjunction with an interrogator to receive and interpret signals from a transponder.
• retiariusA gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
• rex iustusA righteous king, whose power is regarded as stemming from his piety etc.
• rictusA bird’s gaping mouth.
• rotulaThe patella; the kneecap.
• RutuliAn ancient tribe who inhabited a region in Latium, modern-day Italy, whose capital was Ardea.
• saburraFoul granular matter deposited in the alimentary canal by the decomposition of food
• saeculumAny of a sequence of ages (periods of time) such that each age ends with the death of the last person remaining alive since its beginning, and the end of an age marks the beginning of the next.
• Salve ReginaA hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.
• sculptrixA woman who sculpts; a female sculptor; a sculptress.
• secernTo separate or set apart (someone or something from other persons or things).
• sectantOne of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes.
• secular clergyOne of two branches of the clergy, composed of deacons and priests who are not monastics and do not belong to religious orders.
• sellaryA male prostitute.
• senariusA verse having six metric feet.
• senatrixA female senator (a female member of a senate)
• sentineA place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
• septem-Seven.
• septenariusA verse having seven metrical feet.
• septupleSeven times as much; sevenfold.
• sequaniumAn early name for the element neptunium, based on a discredited claim of discovery.
• servitrixA female servitor.
• sic proUsed to note an error in text as quoted and to supply the supposed intended meaning
• sidero-Related to stars or constellations.
• significatrixA female significator.
• singultusA fit of gasping or convulsive breathing.
• sola ecclesiaThe doctrine that the Church, and not Scripture alone, is the ultimate source of authority for Christian doctrine.
• sophisticSynonym of sophistical, of or related to the ancient Sophists, characterized by fallacious reasoning.
• sororialSynonym of sororal (“of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters”).
• spectatrixA female spectator.
• speculatrixA female speculator.
• spiritus lenisSynonym of smooth breathing.
• squalidityThe quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
• stare decisisThe principle of following judicial precedent.
• status quo ante bellumA situation as it existed prior to the war (often implying the withdrawal of enemy troops and the restoration of pre-war leadership, so that no side gains or loses any rights or territory as a result of the war).
• stimulatrixA female who stimulates.
• stranguriousOf or pertaining to strangury.
• stricto sensuNarrowly: in the narrow sense (of a polysemic word with narrow and broad senses).
• stultiloquenceSilly talk; babble.
• substantSomething that subsists.
• sudariumA napkin or handkerchief.
• suffragoThe joint between the tibia and tarsus, such as the hock of a horse's hind leg or the heel of a bird.
• suillineOf or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
• summum bonumThe greatest good; the ultimate importance; the singular end which human beings ought to pursue.
• super-located above; (anatomy) superior in position
• superpartientBeing or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.
• supra-Above, over, on top; (anatomy, medicine) superior
• suspirationThe act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained).
• suspiriousSuspiring; sighing.
• sybariticOf or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent.
• synonymiaThe use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
• TaprobanaSri Lanka.
• temerariousCharacterized by temerity; recklessly daring or bold.
• temulenceDrunkenness; intoxication.
• temulencySynonym of temulence.
• tenebrescenceReversible photochromism; the ability of a material to change colour when exposed to sunlight.
• tenebricoseFull of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.
• terebrantOf an insect: that bores holes; specifically, of the suborder Terebrantia of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.
• terra firmaContinental land, as distinguished from islands.
• tessellatetessellated
• testatrixA female testator.
• thyrsusA staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
• TironianOf or pertaining to Marcus Tullius Tiro (died circa 4 BCE), scribe of Cicero and inventor of an early shorthand.
• topothesiaThe description of an imaginable or nonexistent place.
• trabeculaA small supporting beam.
• tractatrixA female shampooer.
• tria nominaThe three names borne by free male Roman citizens, consisting of the praenomen, nomen, and cognomen.
• triumviralOf or belonging to the triumviri or the triumvirate.
• -trixFound on the end of words, chiefly female agent nouns.
• tumultusA commotion.
• tunica intimaThe innermost layer of an artery or vein, made up of one layer of endothelial cells and supported by an internal elastic lamina.
• turribrachycephalyThe condition of having a high, prominent forehead.
• tutrixA female tutor (teacher).
• unguiculusA diminutive claw or similar appendage at the end of an insect's foot.
• usurpatrixA female usurper.
• vaginulaA little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
• valetudeA state of health; especially that of good health.
• vaticinatrixA female vaticinator or prophet.
• vectureThe act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
• vellusThe stipe of certain fungi.
• venatioThe hunting and slaying of wild animals as a form of entertainment in Ancient Roman amphitheaters.
• verecundmodest
• verificateSynonym of verify.
• versificatrixA female poet.
• vesaniaMadness, insanity, mental derangement.
• vesicaA bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
• vestigiumA vestige.