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Understanding Scientific Terminology Greek and Latin Roots of Scientific Terms.

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Understanding Scientific Terms, Greek and Latin word roots for scientists

About this book

Contents

• Lesson 0 - Why bother learning Greek and Latin words?
• Lesson 1 - Roots, prefixes, and suffixes
• Lesson 2 - Common roots in science
• Lesson 3 - Common prefixes
• Lesson 4 - Numbers
• Lesson 5 - Colors
• Lesson 6 - The Body - part 1
• Lesson 7 - The Body - part 2
• Lesson 8 - Special suffixes

Courses

This book is used as a textbook in this Wikiversity course.

References

• Latin
• Greek, Ancient
• Greek, Modern
• Brunner, Theodore F. and Luci Berkowitz. 1967. The elements of Scientific and Specialized Terminology. Burgess Publishing Company. Minneapolis, MI. SBN 8087-0235- 1
• Simpson, D. P., M.A. 1968 . Cassell's Latin Dictionary. Macmillan Publishing Company. New York NY. ISBN 0-02-522570-7
• Various Authors. 2000. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. ISBN 0-618-08230-1