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189 iterate The Latin adverb iterum means again. From the fourth principal part of the related verb itero, iterare, iteravi, iteratus meaning to do a second time, to repeat, comes the English verb iterate. -ive The Latin suffix -ivus (or -tivus) was added to verb stems to produce verbal adjectives “expressing the action of the verb as a quality or tendency” (Allen and Greenough, §251, p. 152). Such is the origin of the endings -ive and -tive in English. Thus, dissipative means tending to dissipate. -ize The Greek ending -…zein was added to a noun stem to produce a corresponding denominative verb. This ending became-ize when the word was taken over into the English language or when an English word was coined on this model. J j The Latin J, j came in late as a fancy I, i to be used for beauty’s sake when the i was a consonant or, in Italian, when the i ended a word, particularly if it was preceded by another i. Jacobian The Seventy transliterated the Hebrew proper name ET \ into Greek by 'I£kwboj, which in turn was transliterated into Latin by Iacobus or Jacobus. It corresponds to the English Jacob or James. The adjective Jacobian refers to the mathematician Jacobi (1804–1851). join The English verb is formed from the Latin verb iungo, iungere, iunxi, iunctus, to join. joint This is the corruption of the Latin past participle iunctus or junctus, joined, from the verb iungo, to join. ...

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