#word roots

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Word Roots

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Character Combinations

[theyuniversity]

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[savetheplanarians]

Compiled from the Greek, Latin, and other languages, with special reference to biological terms and scientific names

I HAVE FOUND THE GREATEST PDF OF ALL TIME

Literally every word for which I’ve ever had to look up the etymology, the root is in here.  I found it while trying to figure out what Physaloptera and physaliferous cells had in common (’bladder’, apparently, is what they have in common), and I will never be sad again.

[cherrylimepine]

the word vacation is related to vacate and vacant?? I put that together in the shower and it felt like big news

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

I have absolutely zero feelings regarding prescriptivism and I would never tweet about them I promise

[realityisatoe]

Does anyone know if the colour “cyan” got it’s name from cyanide or if they have any shared roots?

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

A brief etymology of “butter”.

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