Vocab

1. Cognate:

• Someone who is related to you by blood.


• Adjective.
  
• Related, affiliated, generic.
  

(my family and I)

• Those people are my cognate, that is my cousin Jake and his sister Alyssa.


• Etymology: Latin cognatus, from co- + gnatus, natus, past participle of nasci to be born; akin to Latin gignere to beget -- more at kin.

2. Derivative

• It comes from something else, it is not original.


• Noun.


• Acquired, ancenstral, caused.


• 

• Matt is a derivative of Matthew.


• Derivative is also known to be a type of math equation.

3. Dimiutive

• Something that is small in size.


• Adjective.


• Little, midget, mini.


• 

• All the guys loved Carrie, she was very diminutive, short and petite.


• Etymology: Middle English diminutif, from Medieval Latin diminutivum, alteration of Late Latin deminutivum, from neuter of deminutivus, adjective, from deminutus, past participle of deminuere

4. Inflection

• To change the pitch of your voice.


• Noun.


• Articulation, change, emphasis.


• 

• When Alex scared Kara, she made an inflection to her voice by screaming at the top of her lungs.


• In the terminology of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arranged in declensions or inflections.

5. Orthography

• Correct spelling.


• Noun.


• Spelling, punctuation, grammar.


• 

• Emily needed her paper edited, so I went through and marked all the orthography that needed to be done.
• Orthography originated between 1425 and 1475.