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Etymologizing - "-icon/icon-"

Etymologizing - "-icon/icon-"

Published 3 years, 8 months ago
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Shout out to a loyal listener for emailing me and asking to go over this root word!

We have a lot of modern pop-culture words that have also came from this root...

emot + icon;

re + pl + icon/ica;

lex + icon;

orth + icon;

silica dioxide;

silicon;

silicon(e);

icono + graphy;

icono + clast;

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