Derivative Trees

Did you know over sixty percent of our English words are derived from Latin? Each week every Latin student is assigned a Latin root or word, and has to find English words that derived from the Latin root, define the word, and give examples. Every year the fifth through eighth students participate in a Derivative Tree Poster Contest. The derivative trees illustrate the importance of root meanings. The objective is to learn the meanings of the root to broaden vocabulary, and to understand or be able to 'figure out' the meaning of large/longer words. Example: the Latin root -vid/ -vis means 'to see' and we get the English words vision, visible, invisible, television, visit, video, evidence, etc.