Latin Influences On Old English
From the Anglo-Saxon period down to the 17th and 18th centuries, Latin, as well as being the language of church…
From the Anglo-Saxon period down to the 17th and 18th centuries, Latin, as well as being the language of church…
The great changes in the world over the last century or so have brought a further flood of new words…
Flies, bees, beetles, wasps, and other insects are segmented creatures – head, thorax, and abdomen. Where these parts join, there…
We know that a geriatrician specializes in the medical care of the elderly. The Greek word geras, old age, has…
The tendencies established during the Renaissance continued throughout the 18th century – the period of the ‘Enlightenment’. The works of…
The optometrist, by etymology, measures vision – the term is built on opsis, optikos, view, vision, plus metron, measurement. Metron…
A neurosis is not a form of mental unbalance. A full-blown mental disorder is called a psychosis, a word built…
Misanthrope, misogynist, and misogamist are built on the Greek root misein, to hate. The misanthrope hates mankind (Greek anthropos, mankind);…