Transcript Greek and Latin Roots

Greek and Latin Roots
Origins
Many words come from Greek and Latin
Means: under
It was a submarine attack!
Ex: submarine, subsoil, subway, subhuman, substandard
Means: to empty
Fire alarms forced staff to
evacuate the building.
Ex: evacuate, vacation, vacuum cleaner, vacant.
Means: to honor
We celebrate with a glass
of champagne..
Ex: celebrity, celebration.
Means: to look, see
“The church spire is
visible from miles away.”
visible, revise, supervise, visit, vision.
Means: “a living being”
1. An organism of the kingdom
Animalia, distinguished from
plants by certain characteristics.
2. A living organism that is
distinguished from plants by
independent movement and
responsive sense organs.
Means: people
The earthquake
killed 30,000 people.
population, populous, popular
Means: fall
Means: word, speech
catalog, prologue, dialogue, logogram
(symbol representing a word), zoology.
Means: feeling, suffering
sympathy, antipathy, apathy, telepathy.
Means: to see, to watch
telescope, microscope, kaleidoscope, periscope, stethoscope.
Means: sound
phonograph, phonetic, symphony, homophone, telephone