For example, the word introspection comes from the prefix intro (meaning inward) and the root spect (meaning to look). We can’t literally translate the word to inward look, but we can get the gist of the real meaning, which is an examination of thoughts and feelings....
切莫乱背单词:英语的偏旁部首在拉丁语 有一本名叫《The Greek & Latin root of English(英语的拉丁语和希腊语根源)》的书至少已经出到第6版。 这本书介绍了一个重要的常识:现代英语60%以上的单词有拉丁语和希腊语根源。在科技上,90%以上的单词源自拉丁语和希...
specto, spectare, spectavi, spectatum - to look at, see (verb): spectator, spectacle speculum, speculi, n. - mirror (noun): speculum, specular spero, sperare, speravi, speratum - to hope for, hope (verb): despair spiritus, spiritus, m. - breath, spirit, soul (noun): spirit, asp...
This fusion of root meaning and markers produces very compact sentence elements. For example, amō,“I love,” is produced from a semantic element, ama-,“love,” to which -ō, a first person singular marker, is suffixed.The grammatical function can be changed by changing the markers: the...
Prefix + root Pro- (forward or forth) + duce (lead) = produce ("bring forth") Root + suffix Wonder + -full = wonderful Through changing pronunciation Breakfast, cupboard, extraordinary Through changing spelling Alone is from 'all one'. Felt was once used to strain liquid, so the piece ...
The homonym meaning ‘broth, soup’ is related to Sanskrit yū́ṣ and maybe Greek ζύμη (Proto-Indo-European *i(e/o)uH-s-‘broth, soup’); the other derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h 2 oi-u‘vital force’ > *h 2 ieu-os/es (de Vaan 2008: 316). While ...
to escape who I was and where I was; to be someone else, somewhere else. Many people fall into drugs or alcohol out of similar drives. I never went to those places, but I fell to many other sins during this time. The chief among them, though — the root of everything else — was...
So far,however, fewscholarshaveremarkedthatin themid-secondcentury Ro mewascelebratedby thefamousGreekrhetoricianandsophistAeliusAristeidesas themotherof citizensall over theworld–an ideathatalreadyfindsits rootsin laterepublicandebatesaboutcitizenship,andthatbecameofficiallya tangiblerealitywithCaracalla’sconst...