Etymology

What is Etymology?

• The study of birds

• The study of nature and history of animals

• The study of agricultural soils

• The study of the origin and history of words

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is the meaning of ped/pod?

• place

• foot

• free

• move

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is the meaning of the Latin root mort-

• death

• good

• middle

• awesome

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Which Latin prefix means MANY?

• intra-

• extra-

• multi-

• mal-

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is the definition of the Latin root word multi- (multiply, multiple, multimedia)?

• two

• perform

• many

• bad

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is a suffix?

• A part of a word

• The beginning part of a word that tells you something about the meaning

• The ending part of the word that tells you something about the meaning

• The definition of a word

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

-al is a

• root

• prefix

• suffix

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

When my hamster died, I wrote a poem to _____ him and then we buried him in the backyard.

• geology

• memorialize

• anthropology

• conscience

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

This word means to do or create something that causes people to remember an important person, event or thing.

• Remember

• memoir

• memoralize

• memento

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

-ive is a suffix meaning...

• "causing, tending to do something"

• "act of, state of, process of"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A