Latin and Greek Root Words

1. Latin and Greek Root Words

2. Basic Terms • root form: inspector, thermal • base word: unlikely • prefix: re-, un-, dis- • suffix: -able, -ive, -ly • derivation-a word formed from an existing word, root, or affix: electric, electricity(pronounced: “der-uh-vey-sh uhn”) }affixes:to add on

3. Derivation means drawing off water from a main stream From Latin de: down from, away from+ rivus: brook, stream English words may be derived or drawn off of mainstream Greek or Latin roots. Roots may not be spelled the same way all the time.

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5. Look Inside—Look Outside • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis • Look inside the word for known word parts: prefixes, roots or combining forms, suffixes. • Use the analogy strategy—“I don’t know this word, but I know pneumonia and I know volcano, so by analogy, this word might have something to do with lungs and heat.” • Look outside the word at context clues, visuals • The coal miners, coughing and wheezing, suffered from pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Susan Ebbers 2005 19

6. Look Inside—Look Outside • pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis • Look inside the word for known word parts: prefixes, roots or combining forms, suffixes. • Use the analogy strategy—“I don’t know this word, but I know pneumonia and I know volcano, so by analogy, this word might have something to do with lungs and heat.” • Look outside the word at context clues, visuals • The coal miners, coughing and wheezing, suffered from pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Susan Ebbers 2005 19

7. photos Draw a green border around the word on this card. Green stands for a Greek root word.

8. photos Definition: light Examples: photograph, photosynthesis

9. Greek and Latin Roots ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES photos light photosynthesis

10. graph

11. graph Definition: to write or draw Examples: autograph, hologram

12. Greek and Latin Roots ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES light photosynthesis photos graph to write or draw autograph

13. photograph polygraph mimeograph phonograph telegraph paragraph photographer cartographer geographer cryptographer autobiographer xylographer paleographer biographer graphite grapheme graphologist graphic graphically grammar school grammar books rules of grammar grammatical grammatically ungrammatical ungrammatically grammatology graph grammar gram gram, graph to write, written Greek telegram mammogram histogram anagram cryptogram monogram electrocardiogram Susan Ebbers 2005 18

14. tele

15. tele Definition: far away, distant Examples: telephone, telescope

16. Greek and Latin Roots ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES light photosynthesis photos graph to write or draw autograph tele far away. telephone

17. metron

18. metron Definition: measure Examples: thermometer, meter stick, geometry

19. Greek and Latin Roots ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES photos light photosynthesis graph to write or draw autograph tele far away or distant telephone metron measure thermometer

20. phobos

21. phobos Definition: unusual fear Examples: claustrophobia: fear of closed places acrophobia: fear of heights arachnophobia: fear of spiders myctophobia: fear of darkness suriphobia- fear of micetestophobia- fear of taking tests

22. Greek and Latin Roots ROOT MEANING EXAMPLES photos light graph to write or draw tele far away or distant metron measure phobos unusual fear

23. Draw a word tree. Select a root. Grow words. Write words that contain your root on the branches of the tree. Include definitions. television: box to see distant things telethon: long fundraising event telephone: sound from far away telekinesis: making things move from a distance telescope: device for seeing distant objects Write the root word on the bottom near the roots of the tree.

24. 1. extra2. geo3. human4. aqua5. sphere6. terra7. spec