106. LE'GERE: le'go, lec'tum, to gather, to read.

leg: le'gend (originally, stories of saints to be read—legen'da—in church); leg'endary; leg'ible; le'gion (originally, a body of troops gathered or levied—le'gio); el'egance; el'egant; sac'rilege (originally, the gathering or stealing of something sacred—sa'crum).

lig: dil'igent (originally, esteeming highly; hence, assiduous): el'igible; intel'ligible; intel'ligence; intel'ligent; neg'ligent (literally, not—neg = nec = not—picking up).

lect: lect'ure (-er); collect' (-ion, -ive, -or); recollect' (-ion); eclec'tic (Greek ec = ex); elect' (-ion, -or, -oral); in'tellect; neglect'; predilec'tion, a liking for; select' (-ion); les'son (Fr. n. leçon = Lat. lec'tio, a reading).

107. LEVA'RE: le'vo, leva'tum, to raise; Le'vis, easily raised, light; French Lever, to rise or raise.

lev: lev'ity; levita'tion; alle'viate (-ion); el'evate (-ion); rel'evant, literally, raising up: hence, pertinent, applicable; rel'evancy; irrel'evant.

lever: leav'en (Fr. levain, yeast); Levant', literally, the place of the rising sun—the countries near the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea; lev'ee; le'ver (-age); lev'y.

LEX. (See [page 43.])

108. LI'BER, free.

liber: -al, -ality, -alize, -ate, -ator, -ty.