Ch 2. Greek and Latin Chemical Terminology

hedr/o

side

mer/o

-mer

-mere

part, partial

goni/o

gon/o

-gon

angle

erg/o

-urgy

work

pyr/o

fire, fever

hygr/o

moister, wet, humidity

therm/o

-therm

heat, temperature

calor/o

cal/o

heat, calorie

stoichi/o

element

psychr/o

cold

xer/o

dry

ge/o

earth, land

aer/o

air

top/o

-tope

place

trop/o

-trope

turn, change

cis/o

-cide

cut, kill

trans-

across, through

cis-

on this side

sesqui-

one and a half

is/o

equal

hom/o

same

heter/o

different from, other

enanti/o

opposite

all/o

different, other, foreign

neutr/o

neither, neutral

electr/o

electricity

hod/o

od/o

-ode

road, path, traveling

mol/o

molecul/o

mass, mole

molecule

osm/o

impulse, push, osmosis

val/o

strength

stere/o

solid, three-dimensional