Origins – More about life
Latin vita, life, is the origins of: 1.Vital – essential to life; of crucial importance – a vital matter; also…
Latin vita, life, is the origins of: 1.Vital – essential to life; of crucial importance – a vital matter; also…
People tend to think that un- is solely a negative prefix. It is, of course, often used as such. And…
Theos, God, is also found in: 1.Monotheism – belief in one God. (Monos, one, plus theos, God.) 2.Polytheism – belief…
The basic meaning of per- is ‘through’. If you perambulate the grounds of a stately home, you walk around or…
Jean Martinet was the Inspector-General of Infantry during the reign of King Louis XIV and a stricter, more fanatic drillmaster…
This prefix has two distinct meanings. First, it can mean ‘with’ or ‘together’, as in combine, compatriot, coexist, and cohere.…
The root fero is found also in somniferous, carrying, hearing, or bringing sleep. So a somniferous lecture is so dull…
The ad- prefix is primarily a Latin preposition meaning ‘to, near, at’; it is distantly related to the English word…