Mateospdf: Etimologias Grecolatinas Agustin

The Foundations of Spanish: Agustín Mateos Muñoz and "Etimologías Grecolatinas"

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2. Use Companion Study Guides

• Part One: Latin Etymology – Focuses on suffixation, prefixation, and composition. Includes tables of Latin declensions applied to Spanish derivatives (e.g., ager, agri → agrícola, agricultura).
• Part Two: Greek Etymology – Introduces Hellenic prefixes (anti-, peri-, meta-), suffixes (-logo, -metro, -filo), and the formation of scientific terms.

• Declensions and Stems: Unlike many modern books that skip grammar, Mateos introduces the concept of Latin declensions to explain how the stem of a word (e.g., leg- from lex, legis for law) generates Spanish words like legal, legislador, and ilegal.
• Verbal Roots: Extensive sections are dedicated to Latin verbs: facere (to do/make), dicere (to say), scribere (to write), and videre (to see). Each verb generates a family of dozens of Spanish derivatives.

1. Wiktionary's Latin Frequency List – 500 most common Latin roots.
2. The Greek Language Portal (greek-language.gr) – Lists of Greek combining forms.
3. Real Academia Española (RAE) Database – Etymology for any Spanish word (etimología section in DLE).