Terminology (Biology/Language)
This post is about bases, prefixes, and suffixes. With the knowledge of this you can dissect words and figure out a rough meaning of the word without a dictionary. Of course there will be many posts like this to further your knowledge of these bases, prefixes and suffixes.
Hepatitis
Hepat/itis
Hepat = liver
Itis= inflammation of
*Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver.
* denotes the definition of the word
Rhinorrhea
Rhin/o/rrhea
Rhin = nose
Rrhea = discharge
O is just a separator of words.
*Simply put a runny nose
Diarrhea
Dia/rrhea
Dia- through
Rrhea- discharge
*This does not need a definition
Amphibious
Amphi/bi/ous
Amphi- both/ on both sides
Bi-life
Ous- full of
*relating to or adapted for both land and water
Android
Andr/oid
Andr- man
Oid- having the shape of/ like
*An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human. (This definition was taken from google. Note how it is technically wrong. Andr means man not human so it would be a robot designed to act and look like a human man! )
Misogynist
Mis/o/gyn/ist
Mis- hate
Gyn – woman/ female
Ist- one who
*one who hates women
Anthropomorphic
Anthrop/o/morph/ic
Anthrop – man (more like as in human being)
Morph- form
Ic- pertaining to
*having human characteristic even though it is not human.
With this knowledge can you dissect these words? (One these words may be technically ”made up”)
Misanthropist
Rhinitis
Gynoid
Questions? Comments? Snide remarks?
