Latin or greek roots and what they mean.?

Question

I need an english word but has a latin or greek root. Please say what the latin/greek root means and maybe even put it in a simple sentence :P

Also dont make the word hard or complicated just a word that a kid can understand besides survive and vivid

Answer 1

arma - Latin: defensive weapons - armor. The soldier wears armor.
vita - Latin: life - vitamin. Oranges contain vitamin C.
graph - Greek: write - biography - I read a biography of George Washington.
bio - Greek: life- biology. My sister studied biology in high school.

If you look up common words in a dictionary, you can see where the roots are from and what the roots mean.

Answer 2

In latin it should be PAX RE: What is a Greek/Latin root/word meaning PEACE? What is a Greek/Latin root/word meaning PEACE or a synonym for peace?

Answer 3

Two fairly simple English words with Latin/Greek origins are:

ALPHABETOS (like al-fuh-bee-toes)--Greek
ALPHABETUM (like al-fuh-bee-tum)---Latin
(the letters of any language arranged in the order fixed by custom. The word comes from the first 2 Greek letters--alpha and beta)

Dictionary--comes from the Latin "dictio"---or dic-tee-oh---meaning "word". This is a listing of all the words of a language in alphabetical order with information about the word, such as where it came from, its place of origin, pronunciation, etc.

Answer 4

Literature comes from the Latin root "liter" meaning "letter"

Dynamite comes from the Greek root "dynam" meaning "power" or "force"

Answer 5

Alphabet - Alpha beta; the first two letters in the Greek alphabet- translated simply to A and B.

Answer 6

television:tele comes from the ancient Greek word tile which means far away-in a long distance