Dear friends,
It would be useful if PNG students and teachers learned the derivation of words based on Latin and Greek roots. Combine these with an understanding of prefixes and suffixes and there is access for all to hundreds of words.
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Let us explore a selection of Latin and Greek roots. We have a new way of looking at English. There are not just thousands of words. There are dozens of word groupings.
It would be good if the roots of words were returned to the class room.
Students would enter a new world of language.
Latin Greek
Every day Official & scientific
words words
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Ago (actus) – I do.
agent, act, actor, react, reagent, agile, action, interact,
interaction,
Ameas (amat) – Love, happy
amorous, amicable, amamas (tok pisin), amour (French)
amo (Italian), amiable.
Arche – rule
Monarchy, oligarchy, anarchy
Aster – a star
Aster daisy ( flower looks like a star), asteroid,
astronomy, astrology, asterisk, astronaut
Aves –the birds
Aviation, aviary, aviator
Baros – weight
Barometer, barometric,
Biblos – a book
Bible, bibliography, bibliotheque (French)
Cado ( cassus) – I fall
accident, cadence, cascade, decay, decadent, decadence.
occasion,
Capio (captus) – I take
Capture, captive, captivate, escape, captivity
Caput – the head.
Cap, captain (English), Kapitano (Italian), Kapitain (Spanish) capital,
caption, decapitate, recapitulate.
Cedo (cessus) - I go
Proceed, procession, recede, recession, concede, concession
intercede, intercession, cede, cession, precede, precedent.
Centum – a hundred
Century, cent, centurion, centavo (Spanish), centenary,
centenarian
Claudo (claussus) - I shut
Exclude, exclusion, include, inclusion, clause, cloister,
recluse,
Cor – the heart
Cordial, core, Coeur (French), courage, courageous, courtesy,
Sacre Coeur ( French Catholic) Cor blimey ( English slang)
Corpus – the body
Corporal, corpse, corpulent, corporation. Corps,
(Italian) , incorporate
Culpare – guilty
Culpable, Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa ( Latin Catholic)
Curro (cursus) – I run
Current, incur, incursion, recur, recurrent, course, cursory, cursive
discourse, cursor
Decim – ten
Decimal, decimate, decade, December (Julian calendar)
Demos – the people
Democracy, democratic
Dens (dentis) – a tooth
Dentine, dentist, dental, denture, indent, indentation
Dico ( dictus) – I say
Predict, prediction, indict, indictment, diction, indicate,
indication, dicta-phone, dictionary,
Duco (ductus) – I lead
Duct, viaduct, oviduct, conduct, conductor, conduction
Duce ( Italian), reduce, reduction, deduce, deduction,
produce, product, production, introduce, introduction.
Eo – I go
Exit, exeunt (Shakespeare)
Facio ( factus) – I make
Factory, manufacture, facile, faction,
Fero ( latus) - I bear
Refer, transfer, confer, reference, conference, relate,
translate, translation, collate
Finis – the end
Finish, pinis (tok pisin), finite, infinite, final, finality,
finissimo (Italian), finale, refine, refinery, finery
Flecto (flectus) I bend
Flexible, inflexible, reflect, reflection, deflect, deflection.
flex, inflexion. Reflex
Fluo – I flow
Fluid, fluent, fluency, influence, affluent, effluent
Fort (fortus) – strong
Fort, fortitude, fortissimo ( Italian), Codral Forte,
comfort, comfortable.
Frango ( fractus) – I break
Fragile, fraction, fracture, fragment, fractious,
Fundo (fundus) – I pour
Fund, funnel, profound, refund
Ge –the earth
Geology, geography, geophysical,
Gradior (gressus) – a slope
Grade, gradual, gradient, gradually, degrade,
progress,
Grapho – I write
Photograph, telegraph, graph, graphite, graphic,
Homeo – the same
Homo sapiens, homophobia, homosexual, homogeneous
Jacio (jectus) – I throw
Inject, injection, project, projection, projector, reject, rejection
eject, ejection, ejaculate, deject, conjecture, interject, interjection
Judes – a judge
Judiciary, judge, judicial, judgment
Jungo (jungtus) – I join
Junction, juncture, adjunct, injunction, conjunction
Legis – law
Legal, illegal, legislate, legislation, legislature
Lego (lectus) - I gather
Lecture, college, religion, lecturn, collect, collection
Logos – a study or discourse
Biology, astrology, geology, anthropology, anthology,
monologue, catalogue, dialogue, epilogue
Luna – the moon
Lunar, la lune (French), lunatic (people believed to go
mad a the full moon)
Manus – the hand
Manual, manuscript, manage, management
Mater – a mother
Maternal, matron, ma’am, mama,
Metron – a measure
Meter, barometer, anemometer, thermometer,
Mitto (missus) –I send
Emit, emission, transmit, transmission, promise, commit, admit,
committee, commission, admission, permit, permission
Moveo – I move
Nascor (nativitis) - I am born
Native, national, international, nativity, felice nativitat (Spanish)
Pars (partus) – a part
Part, particle, particular, partition, participate, apartment, compartment,
repartee, separate, separation, impart
Pater – a father
Papa, paternal, patron, pastor,
Pathos – feeling
Pathos, pathetic, sympathy, apathy, empathy, antipathy
Pax – peace
Peace, compassion,
Pendeo (pendus) – I hang down
Pendant, pensive, penis, pendulum, suspend, penchant
Pes (pedus) – a foot
Pedal, pedestrian, pedometer
Phonos – sound
Telephone, phonetics, phone,
Phos – light
Photograph, phosphorus, photosynthesis, photogenic
Pleo – I fill
Complement, implement, implementation, supplement
Plico – I fold
Application, apply, reply, imply
Port, report, transport, transportation, import, importation,
export, exportation, deport, deportation, deportee, important.
Premo (pressus) – I press
Press, pressure, express, depress, impresario (Italian) supreme,
impress, impression, compression
Primus – first
Prime, primary, primeval, primitive, imprimateur
Rex (regis) – a rule
Regal, vice-regal, tyrannosaurus rex
Polis – a city
Police, metropolis, metropolitan,
Pono (possus) - I place
Postpone, opponent, expose, impose, repose, depose, deposit,
composite, composition, position, expose
Sacre – holy
Sacred, sacristy, Sacred Coeur ( Catholic French)
Scando (scandus) – I climb
Ascend, ascent, descend, descent, scandal
Skopeo - I view
Telescope, periscope, microscope, scope,
Secto (cidus)_ - I cut or kill
Dissect, dissection, bisect, intersect, intersection, suicide,
genocide, insecticide, spermacide, resection, section, sector,
sect, insect
Scribo ( scriptus) – I write
Describe, description, inscribe, inscription, conscription, scribe
scripture, scribble, prescribe, prescription, script
Specio (spectus) I see
Special, specialty, inspect, inspection, respect, spectacles, species,
introspect, introspection
Tango (tangus) - I touch
Tangible, intangible, tactile, tact, tactless
Tenio (tendus) – I hold
Tender, tendon, extend, intend, intention, contend, contention,
pretend, pretension, portend, tension, extension
Terra – the earth
Terrestrial, terra firma, inter, interred, interment, extra- terrestrial,
Therme – heat
Thermal, thermometer, hypothermia, thermostat
Traho (tractus) – I draw
Tractor, traction, contract, extract, retract, contraction, retraction,
detract, detraction, distract, distraction
Video (vissus) – I see
Video player, DVD, vision, visible, invisible, revise, advice,
advise,
Venio – I come
Venture, convene, convention, invent, convent, veni-vidi-vinci
(I came- I saw- I conquered), prevent.
Verto (versus) – I turn
Revert, reverse, inverse, converse, convert, conversion, versus
Vinco -_I conquer
Convince, vanquish, invincible, HMS Invincible.
Volvo (volvus) – I roll
Revolve, revolver, Volvo car, involve, revolution, convolution,
convolvulus (flower)
Zoon – an animal
Zoo, zoology, zooplankton, zoological, spermatozoa, protozoan
If you are interested in words, please keep these on your computer and run your eye down the list from time to time. I learned these words from Grades 7-12 from 1958 to 1963. I will never forget.
Regards,
Bruce Copeland BA BEdSt
I agree whole heartedly...
ReplyDeleteLingua speciem involutam praebet, sed sat cito eam comprehendes. Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant