Word Roots:Classics 30

Wednesday,August 25, 2010:

Unit 7 Anders Celsius

Today’s Goals

• To explain quiz for Thursday• To go over Material from Unit 7• To review grammar from last several

days• To go over transliteration from Greek to

English

Tomorrow’s Quiz• Know the answers to the questions and exercises from Unit 6

and 7.• Be able to answer questions about Greek words with omicron-

iota or alpha-iota that have “e” in modern English.• Be able to do exercises like those on Week 4 Worksheet 1.

– Half the questions will be drawn directly from worksheet.– Half will be variants on those questions.

• Know the morphemes that make up the Bonus Biological terms back through last Thursday.

Last Week’s Quiz:“aenigma” vs. “enigma”

Why are both “aenigma” and “enigma” correct spellings?

Unit 7 Prefixes

• {ec}

Unit 7 Bases

• {ov/ovi}• {aster}• {gaster/gastro}• {larynx/laryng/laryngo}• {tom}• {neuro}• {psycho}• {sclero}

• {oste}• {my}• {lymph}• {card/cardio}• {cyst/cysto}• {metro/meter}• {ot/oto}• {media}• {rhin/rhino}

Unit 7 Bases

• {ceros}• {rrhea}• {logo}• {entero}• {acid}• {alti}• {apert}• {arid} • {compet}

• {confid}• {conscript}• {correct}• {eras}• {ferv}• {fus}• {grati}• {humid}• {invent}

Unit 7 Bases

• {invest}• {liberal}• {magni}• {object}• {pall}• {sculpt}• {sequ}• {stup}

• {asin}• {audi}• {can}• {flex}• {frag}• {gel}• {glor}• {infant}

Unit 7 Bases

• {juven}• {leon}• {morb}• {naviga}• {pecuni}

• {sen}• {ven}• {verb}• {vir}

Unit 7 Suffixes

• {ion} • {y}• {oid}• {itis}• {sis}• {oma}• {ize}• {ence}

• {ity}• {or}• {or} • {tude}• {ure}• {ness}• {ble}• {id}

Unit 7 Suffixes

• {ile}• {ine}• {ose/ous}

Bonus Biology Term I• chlorophyll

– Greek {chloro} = green– Greek {phyll(on)} = leaf– Chlorophyll is a green-colored chemical that exists in several variants in

plant leaves. • Compare:

– chlorine ({-ine} = [basic, fundamental, essential, or important] chemical substance; here, {-ine} is the ending given to the halogen elements: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine*) (chlorine, in pure form, is a green gas.)

– phyllo (from modern Greek), a dough in very thin leaves used to make baklava

– megaphyll and microphyll*But not “unumseptimium,” which was just made in January of 2010,ought to be the next halogen, and currently bears a temporary name.

Bonus Biology Term II• haplont

– Greek {hapl(o)} = single, simple– {ont} = “being” – an organism that has only a single (haploid) set of

chromosomes in its somatic (body) cells as opposed to one with a double (diploid) set.

• Compare:– diplont, {dipl(o)} = double.– ontology (the study of being [What does in mean to

say “John is an an employee of UC Davis”?])

End

Pygmies and cranes locked in mortal battle.