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edimoligy
edimaliligy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trophos | to turn |
| metron | messure |
| photos | light |
| graph | to write |
| tele | to write from a far distance |
| philia | lov,frienship |
| phobos | Fear |
| agriphobia | fear of open spaces |
| cLoStRaPhObIa | fear of kristen |
| Syn | with together |
| synphany | to feel with someone |
| symphony | sounds that go together |
| synthesis | putting together |
| synthetic | material made by putting chemicals together |
| photosynthesis | processes by which light |
| synonym | 2 words with same meaning |
| synagogue | place to bring people together |
| syncranize | to do at the same time |
| phonograph | writing with sound |
| telegram | sound from far away |
| phonogram | writing sound |
| euphony | good or pleasant sound |
| symphony | sound that goes together |
| megaphone | device to make sound BIG |
| microscope | device to record small sounds |
| profess | admit that one is an expert |
| professional | one who claims to be an expert |
| problem | anything thrown |
| probosics | trunk or shout |
| prologue | beginning |
| proclaim | annonce |
| proceed | move foward |
| pronoun | word that stands for a noun |
| nominate | suggest someone's name |
| nomination | act of naming |
| nominal | in name only |
| nomenclature | system of names |
| non de plum | pen name for an author |
| denomation | name of classes |
| denomitor | the bottom half of a fraction |
| prea | before in front of |
| predict | say before hand, foretell |
| preamble | that which goes before |
| precaution | being on guard before hand |
| precursor | one who runs ahead |
| prefer | carry to a forward position or rank |
| pregnant | condition before birth |
| prejudice | make judgment before hand |
| ad | to, toward, near, next to |
| adequate | even with or equal to |
| adjective | word 'thrown at' a noun to modify it |
| adhere | stick to |
| admire | look at with wonder |
| admonish | give warning to |
| admit | send to |
| advertise | turn people to what you are ofering |
| jacio jactum | throw |
| eject | throw out |
| interject | throw out |
| object | throw against |
| objection | argument ' throw against' |
| project | throw forward |
| projectile | a thing thrown forward |
| reject | throw back |
| Pono Postum | lay put |
| pose | position or atitude |
| post | fixed or established place |
| postage | payment for message sent |
| posision | establish place |
| deposit | lay away |
| repose | lie back |
| depose | put down |
| impose | to put upon |
| companant | put tegether |
| CUM | with together |
| cooparate | born together |
| cognate | born togrther |
| collaborate | work with |
| collect | gather together |
| combat | fight with |
| commorate | remember something together |
| community | community which builds together |
| content | held together |
| confession | made together |
| Caput, Capitis | head |
| caput | "of with his head" |
| capital | top of a column; head, chief or foundation money |
| capilism | system where the " head money" makes money |
| capitulate | put heading on chapters or division in a piece of writing |
| recapitate | to list again the " headings" in a piece of writing |
| cabbage | vegetables "head" |
| digitus | finger, toe, inch |
| digit | finger, numeral's from 0 to 9, unit of measure the width of of a finger (3/4 if an inch). |
| digital computer | a computer which uses numeral's to mean whole numbers and decimal fraction. |
| digitilis | the 'foxglove' plant from which heart medicine is made. |
| prestidigitation | a fast fingered or sleight of hand performance of magic or of card tricks |
| pas pendis | foot |
| pedistal | foot of column |
| pedistian | walker on foot |
| pedal | foot lever |
| peddle | house to house salesman |
| pedicap | bycicle tax |
| pedicure | care for the feet |
| pedigree | genolgy charts |
| pedometer | messures distance walked |
| pawn | foot soldiar |
| mahnoos | hand |
| manufacter | make by hand |
| manifest | to hit by hand |
| manicoti | sleeve like pasta |
| manuscript | writing writer by hand |
| manumit | to send forth or release by ones hand (grasp) |
| brahkeyoom | arm |
| brace | 2 of a kind |
| embrace | to take one into each arm |
| braclet | ornemant for arm of rist |
| brachiat | to swing by arm by pole or tree branch |
| brachiopod | 2 shelled creature with 2 arms inside with which to bring in food |
| bracero | spanidh word for day laborer( with 2 strong arms) |
| Unus | one |
| unit | one part of a season or of a whole |
| union | act of making one of many |
| E pluabris unum | motto of USA one out of many states together as one |
| united | together as one |
| universe | star galaxy which turns as one entry |
| university | many coleges joined together to function as one body |
| unicorn | mythical horse with one horn on its head |
| dens dentis | tooth |
| dent | thooth like notch locking ears etc a small depression |
| dentis | tooth doctor |
| dentate | having a toothed edge |
| dental | pertaining to teeth |
| denture | set of teeth |
| dentifrice | tooth paste |
| dentition | developing of teeth teething |
| dentiform | shaped like tooth |
| indent | set a line of print in from the marigin |
| dandelion | plant called tooth of the lion with dentate leaves |
| corpus coporis | body |
| corporeal | pertaining to the body |
| Quinque | five |
| quinqunial | five year period or celabration |
| quenjnarian | a person in his fiftys |
| quinquesable | several lengths taken together to make sound or a five syllable |
| Vulcanus | Vulcan- Roman God of fire |
| volcano | a crack in the earth pouring hot magma and hot gases |
| volcanic | like pertaining to volcanos |
| vulcanize | to treat rubber with heat and sulpher to make stronger and more durable |
| vulcanite | hard rubber treated with heat and sulpher |
| vulcanolagy | the study of volcanos |
| ignis | fire |
| igneous | pertaining to fire |
| ignite | to set on fire |
| ignition | act of fyring up or straing an engine setting anything on fire |
| pyro | fire |
| pyrotechnics | fireworks |
| pyrotechnician | one who is skilled with fireworks |
| pyre | huge bonfire for burning bodies at ancient funarals |
| empyrean | home of the fiery sun |
| pyrometer | instament to measure very hot tempuras |
| solar | pertaining to the sun |
| sol | sun |
| solar system | the sun with objects which revolve around it |
| solaster | a starfish with more than 5 rays; a sun starfish |
| parasol | a light potable sun shade |
| solctice | stopping or standing still of the sun |
| Old Sol | folk name for the sun |
| Helios | sun god; also called Apollo or Phaethon |
| heliotrope | plant which turns toward to the sun |
| helium | light gas used in balloons |
| perihelion | closest point to the sun |
| aphelion | farthest point from the sun |
| heliscope | telescope for looking at the sun |
| heliometer | instrument for measuring the diameter of the sun |
| luna | moon |
| lunar | of pertaining to the moon |
| lunatic | mad; affected by the moon |
| lunacy | madness caused by the moon; monstruck |
| Clare De Lune | moon light |
| lunambilis | one who is sleep walking is supposed caused by the moon |
| lunaurium | instrument showing the phases and motions of the moon |
| interlunar | time between old and new moon when the moon is invisable |
| lunation | 29.5 days- a lunar month or time from new moon to the next new moon |
| petros | rock,stone |
| petrifacation | process into making stone |
| peter | name which means reliable like a rock |
| petrolium | oil from rocks |
| petroglph | rock carving |
| petrograph | writing about rocks |
| petrous | hard, stone like,rocky |
| lithos | stone |
| lithograph | picture drawn on stone so the stone can draw a picture |
| monalith | lone stone |
| megalith | large stone |
| lithology | study of rocks or stone |
| lithosphere | the rocky crust of the earth |
| lithic | made of or pertaining to stone |
| eolithic | earliest stone age |
| peoleolithic | ancient stone age after the eolithic period |
| heolithic | new or late stone age |
| astro | star |
| aster | star shaped flower |
| asteriod | in the form of a star |
| astrology | star sailer |
| disaster | separated from the good |
| astral | pertaing or study the stars |
| astrodome | covered stadium for looking at stars |
| dendro | tree |
| ronododendrom | evergreen shrub with large flowers |
| lepidodendrom | exctinct tree |
| dendrophile | lover of trees |
| dendrometer | instrument for measuring trees |
| dendrolite | petrified trees |
| dendripform | having the shape of a tree |
| Magnoos | big large good |
| magnify | make larger |
| magnifier | that which makes greater |
| magnitude | greatness |
| magnate | person of great rank or influence |
| magnificent | great in deed or charctel, lavish |
| magnimous | great in mind; above what is low, mean or ungenerous |
| matrdiach | a woman who rules the famaly |
| maternal | motherly |
| material grandparents | parents of ones mother |
| matrix | the ground from which or idea spring |
| matriculate | have ones name enterd on the list |
| matrimony | state from which motherhood developes |
| phatair | father |
| patriotism | love for the fatherland |
| patriach | chief father of the family |
| patrician | nobly born person deceded of the founding fathers of rome |
| patrimony | comdition or estate inherited from ones fathers |
| patrons | one who acts like a father towerd another |
| patronymic | a father name inhabeted and given to his children |
| megas | great large big |
| megaphone | A device for making large sounds |
| megalith | huge rock |
| megalomania | crazy person with delusion of graduer or greatness |
| megalophonous | having a big or lound sound or voice |
| maga | in the metric system, a million times |
| magameter | a million meters |
| mega tons | a million tons |
| urbs urbis | city |
| urban | pertaining to the city |
| suburb | outlying part of a city smaller town near |
| sububanite | one who lives in the suburb |
| itnerurban | between citys |
| urbane | polite |
| urbanity | civility |
| urbanites | those who live in the citY |
| PATHOS | feeling,suffering |
| pathos | device to call pity |
| pathetic | marked by surrfering |
| pathology | study of suffering |
| pathometer | measeres feeling |
| apathy | not feeling |
| antipathy | feeling agaist |
| sympathy | to feel what another feels |
| telapathy | know how someone feels |
| autos | self |
| autograph | writing name of oneself |
| automobile | self moving |
| autobiography | story of oneself |
| autocrat | power in one person |
| autonomy | being a law to oneself |
| autodiamic | suppling in one power |
| automamatic | a machine that has its own thoughts |
| acting | self reggulatig |
| geo | earth |
| geography | draw the earth |
| geographer | one who makes maps and writes about the earth |
| geology | study of the earth and its formations |
| geologyst | one who studies the formation of the earth |
| ammo ammatoom | love |
| amater | lover |
| amiable | kinly |
| terra | land |
| territoy | land under control |
| terrace | raised platform |
| tera cotta | cooked earth |
| tarrium | garden in small glass container |
| terrestrial | pertaining to earth |
| trans | across over through |
| transport | carry across |
| transaction | trade exgange |
| trans script | speech put in to writting |
| transfer | carry across |
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