In Latin, most words for jobs end in -ER or -OR ("arbiter", "creditor"). Words ending in -UM make their plurals with -A ("stadium", "stadia"); words ending in -A make the plurals with -AE ("formula", "formulae"); words ending in -US make their plurals with -I ("fungus", "fungi"); words ending in -IX or -EX make their plurals with -ES or -CES ("matrix", "matrices").
Thare are too many borrowed words from Latin to include all of them here. They can be grouped into several types:
Business and Commercial ("creditor", "agenda"), political ("agitator"), legal ("alibi"), mathematical ("apex"), signs of the Zodiac ("Scorpio", "Virgo"), place names ("Britain", "Germany"), names of months ("March", "September"), non-metric units of length ("mile", "inch"), biological ("species").
There are many other words.
| Word | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| advert | One of many business and commercial words from Latin. | |
| agenda | ||
| agitator | One of many political words from Latin. | |
| album | ||
| alias | One of several policing words from Latin | |
| alibi | elsewhere | |
| animal | ||
| apex | One of many mathematical words from Latin. | |
| aquarium | ||
| Aquarius | water bearer | One of many Zodiac signs from Latin. |
| arbiter | ||
| Aries | ram | Zodiac sign. |
| August | Named after Augustus Caesar. One of several months from Latin. | |
| autumn | ||
| axis | ||
| Britain | Island off the European coast. | |
| calendar | proclamation | Dates were proclaimed by the priests. |
| Cancer | crab | Zodiac sign. |
| Capricornus | horned goat | Zodiac sign. |
| captor | ||
| cardinal | ||
| circus | ||
| creator | ||
| creditor | ||
| curator | ||
| curriculum | ||
| cursor | ||
| Cyprus | copper | Island in Mediterranian. The root word is 'Cuprum'. |
| data | Plural of 'datum'. | |
| December | tenth month | |
| discus | ||
| doctor | ||
| educator | ||
| equinox | equal night | |
| February | From a Roman winter festival. | |
| focus | ||
| formula | ||
| forum | ||
| France | European country name of a tribe. | |
| fungus | ||
| Gemini | twins | Zodiac sign. |
| genius | ||
| Germany | European country named after a tribe. | |
| Greece | European country. | |
| habitat | One of several biological words from Latin. | |
| igneous | ||
| ignoramus | we do not know | |
| inch | ||
| index | ||
| inertia | One of several physics words from Latin. | |
| inferior | ||
| innuendo | ||
| interior | ||
| joke | word play | |
| July | Month named after Julius Caesar. | |
| June | Month named after Juno. | |
| junior | ||
| Jupiter | from 'Zeu-Pater', Father Zeus | Fifth planet. One of several planets from Latin. |
| Leo | lion | Zodiac sign. |
| liberator | ||
| Libra | balance | Zodiac sign. |
| London | City in England. | |
| March | from Mars | Third month. |
| Mars | Fourth planet. | |
| matrix | ||
| maximum | ||
| May | Fifth month. | |
| medium | The plural is 'media'. | |
| memorandum | Often shortened to 'memo'. | |
| Mercury | First planet. Also a liquid metal. | |
| merit | ||
| mile | thousand (paces) | Unit of length (= 1.609 km). |
| minimum | ||
| miracle | wonder | |
| momentum | ||
| monitor | ||
| moratorium | delay | |
| motor | ||
| nebula | cloud | Used for a cloud of interstellar gas. |
| nectar | ||
| Neptune | Eighth planet. | |
| nimbus | rain | A type of cloud. |
| November | ninth month | |
| nubile | take a husband | |
| nucleus | ||
| obese | ||
| occult | hidden | |
| October | eighth month | |
| omen | ||
| onus | burden | |
| orbit | ||
| pantomime | ||
| parent | ||
| pastor | ||
| peninsula | ||
| penis | tail | Male sexual organ. |
| picture | ||
| pirate | ||
| Pisces | fish | Zodiac sign. |
| premium | ||
| prohibit | ||
| pronoun | ||
| quadrant | ||
| quarantine | forty days | |
| quota | ||
| rabid | to be mad | |
| radius | ||
| recipe | receive | |
| referendum | ||
| refrigerate | cause to become cold | |
| reign | ||
| relegate | send into exile | |
| religion | ||
| republic | ||
| respect | ||
| rostrum | ||
| rota | wheel | |
| rude | rough | |
| Sagittarius | archer | Zodiac sign. |
| saliva | ||
| salubrious | health | |
| sandal | ||
| sartorial | patched | |
| satellite | attendant | |
| scale | ladder | |
| Scorpius | scorpion | Known as 'Scorpio' in astrology. |
| segment | ||
| senior | ||
| September | seventh month | |
| series | ||
| silence | ||
| sinister | left | The left hand was considered evil. |
| Spain | The Roman name of the region. | |
| species | ||
| spectator | ||
| spectrum | ||
| stadium | ||
| stet | let it stand | Printing instruction to ignore deletions. |
| stimulus | ||
| street | paved road | |
| study | ||
| stupid | ||
| suburb | below the city | |
| superior | ||
| table | plank | |
| tacit | silent | |
| tandem | ||
| tavern | ||
| terminus | ||
| torpedo | stiff | |
| transport | carry across | |
| triangle | ||
| trident | three teeth | |
| ulterior | ||
| uniform | ||
| vacuum | ||
| vagina | sheath | Female sexual organ. |
| valour | worth | The same root as 'value'. |
| vehicle | ||
| ventriloquist | belly speak | |
| Venus | Second planet. | |
| versus | towards | |
| veto | I forbid | |
| via | road | |
| victim | ||
| victor | ||
| villa | ||
| violator | ||
| Virgo | virgin | Zodiac sign. |
| virile | from 'vir', man |
