I'm not going to do your homework for you, but I cannot believe you cannot come up with more than E Pluribus Unum.
Ever looked at a calendar and wonder why the months are named like they are? Like October? November? December?
Ever wonder why the planets are named like they are? Like Saturn? Mars? Mercury?
My suggestion.......get a GOOD dictionary that shows the root derivation of the word.
OK.....here's a hint.....October is from LATIN for eight......octo. This word, octo, also gives rise to all sorts of words revolving around the number eight, like octet, octave, etc.
November is from LATIN origin of novem or nine. (November was originally the ninth month before Julius and Augustus Caesar named months for themselves....July, August sound familiar?)
Mars was the Roman God of War. Mars is a LATIN word.
Mercury, another Roman God, derived its name from a LATIN word mercurius.
Another word, mercy, derives from the LATIN word merces meaning reward back then.
Just because it doesn't look like E Pluribus Unum doesn't mean it's not Latin. And you have to remember a lot of languages developed from Latin, like Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
We use a lot of Latin and Latin-derived words in English, just like we adopt for use a lot of other languages' words. English, unlike a lot of other languages, easily and readily assimilates words from a multitude of languages for use in our own.
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