Tag Archives: foreign languages/linguistics

That last post took a while to assemble, so let me quickly offer this worksheet on the Greek root melan/o; it means black. You find this root at the basis of a lot of words, many of them with negative denotative or connotative meanings melancholy comes to mind), which gives one pause, I should think, to consider the origins of racism.

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OK, let’s begin the week with this worksheet on the Greek roots gyn/o, gyne, and gynec/o. If you know the words gynecologist (or perhaps an even more timely word, misogynist), then you know that these roots mean “woman” and “female.”

Once again, any student with an eye on a career on healthcare will need to know this root and the many medical words that spring from it.

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