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CC 303: Latin and Greek Elements in English

Greek Lesson XI

ANDR- man male
androgenic [a hormone that develops and maintains masculine characteristics], philander [to engage in love affairs frivolously or casually], android (-oid similar to), androgynous, Andrew "manly"

KINE-, CINE- to move
cinema, kinetic, kinesics, kinesiology

GEN(E)- kind, race [root was subsumed into Latin w/o change. cp. GEN- (GENER-) race, kind, to give birth to, produce... & cp. GK GEN(E)- to produce in GL VII]
genealogy, genocide, genotype,

GYN(E)-, GYN(A)EC- woman, female
gynarchy, gynecology, misogynist, androgynous, geniatrics, gynephobia, & various terms from science

IDI- one's own, peculiar
idiot (a pvt. person, incapable/unwilling to hold public office), idiosyncrasy, idiom, idiomatic, idiolect, idiot savant

LITH-, LITE- stone
lithograph, phonolite, lithoid, lithophyte, coprolite, paleolithic, neolithic, nephrolith (nephro kidney)

MIS- hatred
misanthrope, misogynist, misaner/misandry, misogamy, misopedist (children), misocainea (new ideas), misology (argument, reasoning or enlightenment), misosophy (wisdom)

PHE(M)-, PHA- to speak
prophet, aphasia

SCHIZ-, SCHIS- to split
schizophrenia, schism,

STERE- solid, three-dimensional
stereograph, stereopticon (a magic lantern, esp. one made double so as to produce dissolving views), steroid, stereophonic, stereotype, cholesterol

TYP- stamp, model
typographical, typical, stereotype, atypical, prototype, typify, type, archetype.

Greek Lesson XII

AUT- self
automobile, automatic, autarchy, autarky (arkein to achieve, suffice), authentic (hent?), autopsy, autodidact, autcrat, autocracy, autohypnosis, autonomous, autonomy

GASTR- stomach
gastric, gastrointestinal,

HELI- sun
helium, helianthus (anthos flower), heliocentric, heliolatry, heliotrope, Heliopolis, Helios (sun god)

IDE- thought, idea, form or notion as opposed to reality (GK idein to see < IE weid to see, know)
ideographic, ideological, ideologue, ideology, idyll [contrast IDI- one's own]

MANC-, MANT- to divine by means of
bibliomancy, pyromancy, mantic, necromancy

NECR- the dead, corpse, dead tissue
necrosis (-osis condition), necropolis, necropsy, necrolatry, necrology (a list of those who have died w/in a certain period), necromancy, necrophagia, necrophilia, necrophobia, necrotomy, nectar (that which overcomes death)

PAL(A)E- old
paleontology (a branch of geology that deals w/ prehistoric forms of life through the study of plant and animal fossils), paleography, paleethnology, paleoanthropology, Paleocene (cen recent), paleolilth (a Pleistocene stone tool), Paleozoic, paleozoology (zo animal)

PSEUD- false
pseudoscientific, pseudointellectual, pseudonym, pseudopodium

PSYCH- mind
psychology, psychosis, psychiatrist, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, psychopath, psychosomatic, psychotherapy

TROP- to turn, manner, way
tropic, phototropic, trope, tropism (in biology the responsive growth or movement of an organism tward or away from an external stimulus), entropy (a measure of the capacity of a system to undergo spontaneous change/or designates a thermodynamic measure of the amount of energy unavailable for useful work in a system undergoing change), heliotrope