(14c.), from Latinpaedagogus, from Greekpaidagōgos"slave who escorts boys to school and generally supervises them," later "a teacher or trainer of boys," frompais(genitivepaidos) "child" (seepedo-) +agōgos"leader," fromagein"to lead" (from PIE root*ag-"to drive, draw out or ...
Advertisements: Use the search bar to look for terms in all glossaries, dictionaries, articles and other resources simultaneously This is a list ofLatin words with derivatives in English(and other modern languages). Note that ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u a...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
Greek and Latin Root Words for Biology The key to learning biological terms is in learning the origins of those words which is usually Greek or Latin. The following list was obtained from: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/zool250/Roots/RootsMain.htm A a(n)- without ab- away ...
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id, ide- a thing connected with or belonging to- fluid, fluoride, bromide ile- relating to, suited for, capable of- juvenile, senile, purile, missile ine- nature of- feminine, genuine, medicine ion, sion, tion- act, result, or state of- cancellation, contagion, infection, crenellation ...
This older, astrological sense ofdisasterbecomes easier to understand when we study its Latinroot word,astrum, which also appears in our modern "star" wordastronomy. With the negative Latinprefixdis-("apart") added toastrum("star"), the word (in Latin, Old Italian, and Middle French) convey...
Vulpeculais a diminutive of Latinvulpes,fox, and believed to be from Greekalopex, Aeolian Greekfalopex, whencevalopes,volpes,vulpes[Valpy,Greek…, p.18], and comes from the Indo-European root *wlpé‘Fox’. Derivatives:vulpine, from Latinvulpes,alopecia(loss of hair, baldness, literally ‘fox...
In the Greek Septuagint Bible, the tetragrammaton is Kurios and in the Latin Vulgate it's Dominus “No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle” —from the movie Life of Brian The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel, professor at Harvard University. Geographical...
And in the case of today’s words, it started with Latinmenda‘fault, defect’. That headed in three different directions. It added the suffix-icus‘pertaining to’ to givemendicus, literally ‘having fault’ or ‘faultlike’ but used to mean ‘needy, indigent, beggarly’. That has comes...