-nym or -onym comes from Ancient Greek text and essentially means "name"
A suffix derived from the Greek "pathos" meaning "suffering or disease" that serves as a suffix in many terms including myopathy (muscle disease).
The prefix "glu" comes from the Greek words γλυκύς (glukus), meaning "sweet".
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Psychoses. This is the type of Greek root for a word that ends in -is, such as analysis/analyses.
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No the word "democrat" is not a suffix."Demo-" is a Greek word meaning "people"."-crat" is also a Greek word meaning "to rule" or "ruler".
The suffix of "epidermis" is "-dermis," which means "skin" in Greek.
The practice of acronyms was almost non existent before the 20th Century. There could be some connection with the Greek word 'akros' meaning 'end' and 'onym' meaning 'name'. Thus a combination of words of Greek origin
The suffix of "pantomime" is -mime, which is derived from the Greek word "mimos" meaning "imitator."
The word "homonym" is of Greek origin, coming from the words "homo-" meaning "same" and "-onym" meaning "name." It refers to words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Some words that contain the root word "onym" are synonym (meaning a word with a similar meaning), antonym (meaning a word with the opposite meaning), and homonym (meaning a word that sounds the same but has a different meaning).
-nym or -onym comes from Ancient Greek text and essentially means "name"
A suffix derived from the Greek "pathos" meaning "suffering or disease" that serves as a suffix in many terms including myopathy (muscle disease).
The prefix "glu" comes from the Greek words γλυκύς (glukus), meaning "sweet".
"Syn" means together or with, while "onym" means name or word. So when combined, "synonym" refers to words that have a similar meaning, and "antonym" refers to words that have opposite meanings.
The suffix of the word swelling is ing. This suffix is a noun and means activity, or result of an activity.