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Latin on the Period Table - From Na to Hg to Ag and all other non-intuitive elements in-between!

Sodium = natrium, natri(n.)

Potassium = kalium, kalii(n.)

Iron = Ferrus, ferri(m.)

gold = aurum, auri(n.)

Tin = stannum, stanni(n.)

Lead = plumbum, p…

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Etymologizing Pathos as both the prefix "patho-" and the suffix "-pathy"

pathos;

pathetic;

path + ology;

patho + meter;

a + pathy;

anti +pathy;

sym + pathy;

tele + pathy;

patho + genic;

patho + phobia;

patho + mania;

em + …

3 years, 5 months ago

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Etymologizing Mathematical Terms - From Trigonometry to Geometry to Sine/Cosine/Tangent

Trigonometry

from Modern Latin trigonometria (Barthelemi Pitiscus, 1595), from Greek trigonon "triangle" from tri- "three"+ gōnia "angle, corner" …

3 years, 5 months ago

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Etymologizing a TON of everyday words - From connected to conjugate to decline to nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative!

Con + tempor + ary - “with” + “tempor, temporis”

“With the times”

Google: refers to one who lives at the same time as another

(Contemporaneous)

Co…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Discussing Derivatives of Random Latin and Greek Roots (Pt. 1)

Discussing Derivatives of Random Latin and Greek Roots (Pt. 1)

3 years, 6 months ago

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Muscular and Cell Etymology

Here are some guided questions to ask yourself as we move through this lesson! It's good stuff I promise...

Within the word Sarcopenia, the root wo…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Etymologizing a couple of sentences and then discussing Biological terms in regards to Longevity (Telomere, mitosis, chondrosarcoma, mitochondria, etc.)

There was an unexpected reward when the vaccine turned out to be polyvalent and worked against several diseases. POLY-. Is that a prefix? No, it’s a …

3 years, 6 months ago

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Etymologizing words in sentences

quadraphonic;

pyroconductivity;

pseudandry;

supererogatory;

metempsychosis;

reincarnation;

hypercorrections.

3 years, 6 months ago

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Medical suffixes and etymologizing (fancy-dancy) words in sentences

The first one, -itis, meaning “an inflammation of, an inflammatory disease of.”  In a medical context, that suffix has adopted the specialized sense …

3 years, 6 months ago

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Etymologizing - LATIN AND GREEK WITHIN ANATOMY AND THE HUMAN BODY

ANATOMY

LATISSIMUS DORSI

QUADRICEPS FEMORIS

BICEPS BRACHII

TRICEPS BRACHII

“ANTE” IS A PREPOSITION IN LATIN THAT MEANS:

“BEFORE” “IN FRONT OF”

“P…

3 years, 7 months ago

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