The Greek and Latin Roots of EnglishRowman & Littlefield, 2008 - 303 pàgines Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent. Through the study of The Greek & Latin Roots of English, students can expand their knowledge of English vocabulary and also come to understand the ways in which the history of the English language have shaped our perceptions of the world around us. The approach of this new fourth edition of The Greek & Latin Roots of English is thematic: vocabulary is organized into various topics, including politics and government, psychology, medicine and the biological sciences, literature, ancient culture, and religion and philosophy. Cumulative chapter exercises on tear-out pages reinforce both vocabulary already learned and analytical skills developed in previous lessons. This text will help students begin to learn not only vocabulary, but also the pleasures (and pitfalls) of language study. |
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A POLYGLOT STEW | vii |
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR DINNER? | viii |
LANGUAGE and HISTORY | xi |
LANGUAGE FAMILIES | xii |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLISH | 3 |
AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 9 |
AND WHAT IS MORE | 11 |
EXERCISES | 15 |
THEORY AND PRACTICE | 134 |
SOCIOLOGY | 135 |
ECONOMICS | 136 |
EXERCISES | 141 |
HUMAN BIOLOGY and MEDICINE I | 149 |
THE HUMAN BODY | 150 |
MEDICAL SPECIALTIES | 151 |
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION | 153 |
HOW LATIN WORKS | 19 |
LATIN NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES | 21 |
FINDING THE STEM OF A LATIN NOUN OR ADJECTIVE | 23 |
CONJUGATIONS | 24 |
EXERCISES | 29 |
LATIN INTO ENGLISH | 37 |
FORMING NEW WORDS | 38 |
II NOUNFORMING SUFFIXES WITH LATIN NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES | 39 |
III DIMINUTIVEFORMING SUFFIXES WITH LATIN NOUNS | 40 |
IV NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES FORMED FROM LATIN VERBS | 41 |
V VERBAL SUFFIXES | 44 |
VI VERBAL LEARNED BORROWINGS | 45 |
EXERCISES | 47 |
HOW GREEK WORKS | 55 |
RULES FOR TRANSLITERATING GREEK WORDS INTO ENGLISH | 57 |
COGNATES | 59 |
EXERCISES | 61 |
GREEK INTO ENGLISH | 65 |
GREEK SUFFIXES | 66 |
III LEARNED BORROWINGS | 68 |
EXERCISES | 71 |
LATIN and GREEK PREFIXES | 75 |
I LATIN PREPOSITIONS | 76 |
II GREEK PREPOSITIONS | 78 |
III PREFIXES DERIVED FROM GREEK AND LATIN ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS | 79 |
EXERCISES | 83 |
LATIN and GREEK NUMBERS | 91 |
COUNTDOWN | 92 |
GREEK NUMBERS | 93 |
EXERCISES | 97 |
GOVERNMENT and POLITICS | 101 |
GREEK POLITICS | 102 |
ROMAN POLITICS | 103 |
ROMAN ECONOMICS | 107 |
THE LAW | 108 |
WAR AND PEACE | 110 |
EXERCISES | 113 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 119 |
MODERN THEORIES OF PSYCHOLOGY | 120 |
ANCIENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY | 121 |
LOVE AND MARRIAGE | 122 |
STATES OF FEELING | 123 |
THE FOUR HUMORS | 125 |
SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN MIND | 126 |
EXERCISES | 129 |
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | 133 |
TO SLEEP PERCHANCE TO DREAM | 155 |
EXERCISES | 159 |
HUMAN BIOLOGY and MEDICINE II | 167 |
THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM | 168 |
THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM | 169 |
THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM | 171 |
MORE USEFUL BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS | 173 |
EXERCISES | 175 |
SCIENCE and MATHEMATICS | 179 |
ASTRONOMY | 180 |
THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES | 182 |
CHEMISTRY | 187 |
PHYSICS | 191 |
GEOLOGY | 194 |
GEOGRAPHY | 195 |
MATHEMATICS | 197 |
CYBERNETICS | 199 |
EXERCISES | 203 |
ITS an ACADEMIC QUESTION | 211 |
GREEK AND ROMAN EDUCATION | 212 |
BOOKS AND LIBRARIES | 216 |
EXERCISES | 219 |
THE CLASSICAL INFLUENCE | 225 |
THE FINE ARTS | 226 |
CITY PLANNING | 227 |
GOING PLACES | 229 |
THE MUSES | 231 |
MUSIC | 232 |
ATHLETICS COMPETITION AND EXCELLENCE | 234 |
SOME NEW BEGINNINGS | 237 |
EXERCISES | 239 |
MYTH RELIGION and PHILOSOPHY | 245 |
GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION AND MYTH | 246 |
THE CALENDAR | 248 |
TROY | 254 |
ANCIENT PEOPLES AND PLACES | 256 |
PHILOSOPHY | 258 |
THE LANGUAGE OF CHRISTIANITY | 260 |
EXERCISES | 263 |
LINGUA LATINA ETIAM VIVIT The Latin Language Still Lives | 269 |
EXERCISES | 275 |
Greek Vocabulary | 279 |
Latin Vocabulary | 287 |
About the Author | 297 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
adjective adverbs American English ancient Greek Anglo-Saxon Asclepius Athens behavior blank body branch called century B.C.E. check your unabridged classical compounds conjugation Current English usage current meaning declension denoting deponent verb describe Dionysus English compound English derivative form English language English vocabulary English word Exercises feminae fifth-century B.C.E. following words French Germanic goddess gods grammatically correct Greek and Latin Greek and Roman Greek or Latin Greek word Heracles human Hygieia ichthys individual Indo-European Italian italicized word jejunum Latin noun Latin phrase Latin roots Latin verb Latin word English Latin-based learned borrowing linguistic Literal meaning Current live meaning Current English meaning Current usage meanings and current Middle English modern noun or adjective nouns and adjectives Odysseus Original meaning pejorative Perfect stem person political prefix Present stem Romance languages Rome sentence is grammatically suffix transliterated unabridged dictionary word English meaning Zeus
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