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L'ANGLAIS et les préfixes des nombres
Mais plus éloignés du Latin que les français,
les Anglo-saxons sont moins familiers avec ceux-ci.
Ce sont des textes qui s'appuient
sur les racines grecques et latines pour étoffer la palette du vocabulaire
anglais. Exemple: sedeo, être assis a donné sedentary,
sediment, sedate, sedative, recede, supersede …
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0,001 |
mill |
a thousandth
part of a dollar |
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0,001 |
millimetre |
one thousandth of a
meter |
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0,01 |
centimetre |
one hundredth
of a meter |
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percent |
means one out of
every hundred (prononcez quelque chose comme: "pe sainte" et non père san) |
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0,125 |
octoroon |
person with one
eighth Negro blood |
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0,5 |
half-live |
Interval of time
required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay (change
spontaneously into other nuclear species by emitting particles and energy),
or the time required for the number of disintegrations per second of a
radioactive material to decrease by one-half. |
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hemi- |
half as in
hemisphere |
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semi- |
means one half as in: semiannual semiaquatic semiarid semiautomatic
semiautonomous semicentennial semicircle
semicircular semicolon semicomplete semiconscious semicylindrical
semiformal semiherbaceous semilethal semiliterate semilunar
Half-moon shaped; crescentic. semimetamorphosis
semimicro semiopaque semioviparous semipermeable semiplume semirigid semiskilled semiterrestrial
semitone semitransparent semitropical semiyearly |
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semiannual |
to receive semiannual payments
means be paid every sixth months |
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semibreve |
a note, semibreve = ronde, ancient français: semi-brève. |
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semicolon |
punctuation mark |
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semi-final |
a match just before
the final |
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semiquaver |
a note (quaver = croche) |
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semitone |
half a tone in
music |
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annual |
a yearbook for example |
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annuity |
a yearly sum |
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unilateral |
unilateral involves only one
side |
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sesqui- |
the Latin prefix means one and a
half |
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sequialteral |
One and a half times as great
as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one |
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sesquiduplicate |
Having the ratio of two and a
half to one, or of five to two. |
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sesquihora |
In medicine, every one and a
half hours |
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sesquipedalian |
a sesquipedalian word is 1 ½
feet long sesquipedalian language uses
long and obscure words Is sesquipedalian itself a
sesquipedalian word? |
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hippopoto- monstro- sesquipedalian |
a very, very long word |
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2 |
bi- |
"twoness"
is indicated by bi- |
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biannual |
a biannual publication comes
out two
times (twice) a year (see biennial) |
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bicuspid |
a bicuspid has two points |
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bicycle |
a bicycle has two wheels |
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biennial |
means occurring once every two
years (see biannual) |
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bifocal |
with two focuses |
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bigamy |
marriage to two wives, husbands |
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bikini |
brief two-piece swimming
costume for women |
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bilateral |
bilateral is two-sided or
involves two sides |
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bilingual |
who speaks two language with
the same fluency |
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bimonthly |
is ambiguous in sense, meaning either twice a month or
every two months; they are best avoided. Same for biweekly, biyearly |
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bimonthly |
every two months |
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binary |
consisting of two |
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binoculars |
instrument with separate
eyepiece for each eye |
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biped |
a biped has two feet; human
beings are bipeds |
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biplane |
an aeroplane with two sets of
wings, one above the other |
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bisect |
to cut into two (usually equal)
parts |
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bivalve |
as oysters and clams |
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duo |
a group of two |
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duplicate |
repeated two times |
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trilingual |
who speaks three language with
the same fluency |
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twin |
two children of the same
mother, born from a single pregnancy |
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3 |
a three-sided geometric figure |
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trifocal |
with three focuses |
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trio |
a group of three |
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triple |
to multiply by three; three
times as big … |
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tripled |
folded into three layers |
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triplet |
is one of three infants of a single birth three children born from the
same pregnancy |
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triplicate |
repeated three times |
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tripod |
a stand with three feet, three
legs you can place a astronomer's telescope
securely on a tripod |
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trisect |
to cut into three (usually
equal) parts |
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4 |
quad quadrangle |
a four-side open space
surrounded by buildings |
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quadr- |
"fourness"
is indicated by quadr- |
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quadraphonic |
a quadraphonic system transmits
sound through four
loudspeakers |
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quadrennial |
means occurring every four
years USA president election is a
quadrennial event |
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a four-sided geometric figure
such as a square or rectangle |
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quadruped |
an elephant is a quadruped;
most mammals are quadrupeds |
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quadruple |
to quadruple something is to
multiply it by four |
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quadrupled |
folded into four layers |
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quadruplet |
is one of four offspring of a single
birth |
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quadruplicate |
repeated four times |
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quartet |
a group of four |
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pentagon |
geometric figure with five
angles (grec gonia,
angle), or five sides (see all x-gones) |
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Pentagon |
building that houses of the US
Department of Defence |
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pentathlon |
competition: swimming,
cross-country, riding and running, fencing and pistol-shooting |
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quintet |
a group of five |
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quintuplicate |
repeated five times |
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6 |
hexagon |
geometric figure with six
angles |
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sextet |
a group of six (also sestet
in music) |
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sextuplicate |
repeated six times |
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7 |
heptagon |
geometric figure with seven
angles |
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September |
seventh month in the early
Roman calendar |
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septuplicate |
repeated seven times |
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8 |
octagon |
geometric figure with eight
angles |
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octave |
a series of eight notes |
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octet |
eight musicians; lines in a
poem; bits in data processing |
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October |
eight month in the early Roman
calendar |
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octopus |
sea-creature with eight
tentacles |
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octosyllable |
a word or a line with eight
syllables |
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octuplicate |
repeated eight times |
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10 |
decade |
period of ten years (attention: décennie en français) |
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decagon |
geometric figure with ten
angles |
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Decalogue |
another word for Ten
Commandments |
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Decameron |
novel by Boccacio
told by Florentines whiling away ten days during aplague |
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December |
tenth month in the early Roman
calendar |
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decimal |
numbered by tens |
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deni- |
ten folds |
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fornightly |
twice a month or every two
weeks |
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50 |
semicentennial |
50th
anniversary |
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70 |
septuagenarian |
who have lived seven decades,
who have passed the age of seventy |
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80 |
octogenarian |
who have lived eight decades,
who have passed the age of eighty |
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90 |
nonagenarian |
who have lived nine decades, who
have passed the age of ninety |
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100 |
cent |
a hundredth part of a dollar |
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centenarian |
who have lived hundred years |
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centennial centenary |
100th
anniversary; this year , our city celebrates its centennial |
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centipede |
a wormlike creature, but 100
feet is outrageously exaggerated a pair of legs on each body segment
(see millipede) |
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century |
100 years |
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150 |
sesquicentennial sesquicentenary |
150th
anniversary; a period of 150 years or occurring every 150 years |
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200 |
bicentennial bicentenary |
200th
anniversary |
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300 |
tricentennial tercentennial |
300th
anniversary |
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1000 |
millennium |
a period of 1000 years combines mille, meaning
thousand, with enn-, from Latin annus,
year when the millennium comes is an
expression meaning when all will be peace and happiness it looks as if the millennium
will never come |
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1000 |
millipede |
a wormlike creature, but 1 000
feet is outrageously exaggerated two pair of legs on each body
segment (see centipede) |
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1500 |
sesquimellesimus |
1500 th |
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last |
penultimate |
the last but one |
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infinite |
chronic |
time and time again |
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infinite |
perennial |
something that persists through
many years starvation is still perennial in
India poverty continues to be a
perennial problem in the world |
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infinite |
perennially |
wife to her husband: why are you perennially angry? |
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