Origin – Cutting In And Out
Flies, bees, beetles, wasps, and other insects are segmented creatures – head, thorax, and abdomen. Where these parts join, there…
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Origins – Aging And The Old
We know that a geriatrician specializes in the medical care of the elderly. The Greek word geras, old age, has…
The Root Of English – The Enlightenment
The tendencies established during the Renaissance continued throughout the 18th century – the period of the ‘Enlightenment’. The works of…
Origins – Measurement
The optometrist, by etymology, measures vision – the term is built on opsis, optikos, view, vision, plus metron, measurement. Metron…
Origins – The Mind
A neurosis is not a form of mental unbalance. A full-blown mental disorder is called a psychosis, a word built…
Origins Love, Hate, And Marriage
Misanthrope, misogynist, and misogamist are built on the Greek root misein, to hate. The misanthrope hates mankind (Greek anthropos, mankind);…
Origins – Living Alone and Liking It
Ascetic is from the Greek word asketes, monk or hermit. A monk lives a lonely life – not for him…
Origins – The Heart
Cardiologist combines Greek kardia, heart, and logos, science. The speciality is cardiology, the adjective cardiological. So a cardiac condition refers…