Bruce’s Etymology Calendar
August 2016
Sunday
Please review these word
origins with your child each
night, so that they will be
able to define words with
these word parts in them.
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“geo”
“-ful”
“photo”
“bene”
Greek root that means Suffix that means full of Greek root that means Latin root that means
earth
good
Example: colorful= full of
light
Example:
color
Example:
geography= to write
Example: photograph= benevolent= good
about the earth
to write with light
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“pre”
“dict”
Prefix that means before Latin root that means to
say
Example:
Example:
prewash= to wash
predict =to say before
before
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“bio”
Greek root that means
life
Example:
biography= to write
about someone’s life
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“-less”
School Dance
Suffix that means
3:30 – without
5:30
Example:
fearless= without fear
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“graph”
Greek root that means to
write
Example:
autograph= to write
yourself
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“multi”
Latin root that means
many
Example:
multicultural= many
cultures
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“-ly”
“-en”
“-tion”
“-rupt”
“-struct”
Suffix that means
Suffix that means made Suffix that means the act Latin root that means to Latin root that means to
characteristic of
of
or process of
break
build or arrange Example:
Example:
Example:
Example:
Example:
instruct= to build
quickly=the characteristic of
attraction= the act or bankrupt= to break the
knowledge
wooden= made of wood
being quick
process of attracting
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“bio”
Greek root that means
life Examples: biology=
the study of life
“baro”
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“ab”
Greek root that means pressure Greek root that means away
Example:
from
Barometer= a weather
Example:
instrument used to measure the
Abolish
weight of the air or atmospheric
To do away with; destroy
pressure
completely
bank
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