english words from the latin word pono?

Answer 1

Oppose, opponent, opposition, etc.
Depose, deponent, deposition, etc.
Propose, proponent and derivatives
Dispose and derivatives
Indispose too
Prepose, and , of coure, preposition
Propose, proposal, etc.
Compose, composer, composition, compost, etc.
Post - not for fences, but like 'Post No Bills'
Interpose, etc
Repose, etc.
Pose, posture
Impose, etc.
Superimpose too
Suppose, etc
Impose, etc.

And many more - pono, ponere, posivi, postus was the source of hundreds of English words. Almost every possible Latin preposition was used with the root.

Answer 2

position
deposit (from compound depono)
posit (this is an actual word, without the prefix)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=posit

pono ponere posui positum....to lay, put, place, set; to put in place, settle

Sorry, I can't think of any more right now. Most of our English derivatives would probably be based off of the 4th principle part (positum).


Well, dollhaus got me on this one for sure! I didn't list any words that had pose in them because I thought they might be based off of a different verb (pausare).

From dictionary.com:
pose: ... Origin: 1325–75; (v.) ME posen < MF poser < LL pausāre to stop, cease, rest, deriv. of L pausa pause; F poser has taken over the basic sense of L pōnere “to put, place” and represents it in F borrowings of its prefixed derivatives (see compose, depose, etc.), prob. reinforced by the accidental resemblance of poser to positum, ptp. of pōnere

But a lot of those words are from pono. If you look them up at dictionary.com it will tell you what Latin word they are derived from if you are not sure.