week 4 quiz material

combining forms: bases

• Greek: ‘o’

• Latin: ‘i’

know the rules for when to include or exclude a connecting vowel

• Always include connecting vowel except when the next base begins with a vowel or ‘h’

• ex: philanthropy, unanimous

words to know (bases and morphemes)

• in google slide

paraphernalia

• originally: property that married woman owned; dowry

• now: stuff for particular activity, equipment, accessories

robots

• originally: from czech, from play, robota: forced labor

• now: robots that do tasks for us

cynic

• originally: comes from greek meaning dog, from Diogenes

• now: 2 meanings, cynic: person believing ppl motivated by selfish reasons, Cynic: greek philosopher who believes in virtue is the only good

cynosure

• originally: french, dog’s tail

• now: 1. Guide, 2. An object of everyone’s gaze

calculate

• originally: latin, from calx meaning little stone or pebble

• now: to determine amount mathematically

man

madness

ochlo

crowd

ophio

snake

ornitho

bird

phago

eat/eating

pyro

fire

theo

god/divine being

patri

father

matri

mother

arch

rule

mono

only, single

philo/phile

love

phobo/phobe

fear

Anglo

English

biblio

book

anthropo

human being

sopho

wisdom, wise

Helleno

Greek

hydro

water

dynamo

power

acro

height

crac

power

dermato

skin

entomo

insect

etymo

true sense of a word

graph

write, writing

helio

sun