Explore Personal Relationships: Lessons from Latin and Greek Roots
Uncover the essence of personal relationships with Latin and Greek roots in this educational exploration. Learn about puerile behavior, orthopedics, pedagogue teachings, pedantic tendencies, entities, nonentities, and essence.
Explore Personal Relationships: Lessons from Latin and Greek Roots
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Lesson 4 Part 1 Personal Relationships
PUER Latin “a male child”
PUERILE (pyoo-ree-ill) (pue-ri-le), adjective Definition: childish, immature “The student who would not stop making noises in class was very puerile and belonged in second grade, not tenth.
PAIS, PAIDOS Greek “child” “boy”
ORTHOPEDICS (or-tho-pee-dix) (or-tho-pe-dics), noun Definition: branch of medicine that treats disorders of the skeletal system and the tissues related to movement Forms: orthopedic, adjective orthopedist, noun “After breaking my arm, the orthopedics specialist had to reset my bone.”
PEDAGOGUE (pehd-ah-goguh) (ped-a-gogue), noun Definition: a teacher Forms: pedagogic, adjective pedagogical, adjective pedagogy, noun “Failure is the best pedagogue a person can learn from.”
PEDANT (pehd-ant) (ped-ant), noun Definition: person who pays more attention to learning the rules than understanding them a scholarly show-off Forms: pedantic, adjective pedantry, noun “That kid is such a pedant-he only memorizes the information for tests.”
SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUM Latin “to be”
ENTITY (ehn-tih-tee) (en-ti-ty), noun Definition: something that has a real or independent existence--can exist by itself and doesn’t have to be tangible.” “Sometimes spirits are called an entity because they are real even though humans cannot touch them.”
NONENTITY (non-ehn-tih-tee) (non-en-ti-ty), noun Definition: a person or something of no importance something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination “We all thought she was a nonentity to the team until she scored a 3 pt. shot.” “Some people believe that ghosts are a nonentity.”
ESSENCE (eh-sense) (ess-ence), noun Definition: identifying characteristic a substance in concentrated form from a plant or drug, OR a perfume “The essence of Michael Jackson is talent.” “The aloe vera leaf is the essence of aloe that we use in lotions.” “The essence on that lady was too much.”