Besides nouns and adjectives, there are employed in the directions for the pharmacist and for the label a few special words that should be known. They are:

1. Verbs - adde (add), bulliat, bulliant (let it or them boil), cola (strain), coletur (let it be strained), detur, dentur (let it or them be given), divide (divide), extende supra (spread upon), fiat, fiant (let it be, let them be), filtra (filter), misce (mix), mitte (send), pone (place), signa (write), solve (dissolve), tere (rub in a mortar; triturate).

2. Adverbs - bene (well), statim (immediately; at once).

3. Prepositions - (a) ad (for; up to), ante (before), in (into), supra (upon), post (after), govern the accusative. After a transitive verb in governs the accusative and expresses the English into, as "divide in capsulas" (divide into capsules). After an intransitive verb, in takes the ablative, and is equivalent to the English in, as "in aqua" (in water).

(b) cum (with), pro (for; according to), sine (without), in (in), govern the ablative.

(c) Ana (each of; of each) governs the genitive. 4. Conjunctions - aut (or), et (and), vel (or).