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Both words are built on a Latin root candere meaning “to shine” or “to be white” or “to glow.

两个单词都基于一个拉丁词词根candere，意思是“发光”，“白色”，“发热”。

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They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral.

他们又学了拉丁词根later(意思是“边”)，并且组成了英语单词bilateral(双边的)和quadrilateral(四边的)。

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Yet the words fiction and figure come from the same Latin root.

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Umpteen words combine a Latin root with the Greek ending -ist.

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Brithenig is an answer to the question of what English might have sounded like as a Romance language, if vulgar Latin had taken root on the British Isles.

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