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Aulos, a pipe; hydraulics.

Autos, one's self; autocrat, -maton, -graph.

Ballo, to cast; Bolē, a casting;

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bolt, emblem, hyperbole, parable, | Diskos, a round plate, a quoit; problem, symbol. Bapto, to dip, sprinkle; baptism. Baros, weight; barometer, barytes, barytone.

Biblos, inner bark of the papyrus,
a book; Bible, bibliop'olist.
Bios, life; biography.
Bosko, to feed; proboscis.
Botăne, an herb; botany, -ist.
Bruo, to grow; embryo.
Byssos, bottom; abyss.

Chalyps, steel; chalyb'eate.
Charasso, to carve; Character, a
mark; characteristic.
Charis, charitos, love, thanks; cha-
rity, eucharist.

Cheir, the hand; chirographer, chirurgeon, (cont. surgeon). Chimaira, a fictitious monster, a wild fancy; chimerical. Chole, bile, anger; choler, melancholy.

Choreo, to go, retire; anchorite. Christos, anointed; Christ the anointed, christen. Chroma, colour; achromatic. Chronos, time; chronology, chronom'eter, anachronism. Chrysos, gold; chrysalis, solite.

chry

Daimon, an evil spirit; demo niac, pandemonium. Daktylos, a finger; dactyl. Damao, to subdue; adamantine, di'amond.

Deka, ten; decade, decagon, decalogue, Decap'olis. Demos, the people; democracy, endemic, epidemic. Dendron, a tree; dendrology, rhododendron.

Despotēs, a master; despotic. Deuteros, second; Deuteronomy. Didasko, to teach; didactic.

Dogma, opinion, tenet; dogmatic. Doxa, opinion, glory; doxology, heterodox, ortho-, para-. Dromos, a race-course; hippodrome, dromedary.

Drus, the oak; druid, dryad, hama-. Dynamis, force, power; dynamics. Dynastes, a soverign; dynasty.

Ecclesia, the church; ecclesiastical, Ecclesiastes.

Echeo, to sound; echo, catechise, catechu'men.

Eidos, a form, figure; idol, ideal, spheroid, kaleidoscope.

Eikon, an image; iconoclast.
Eiron, a dissembler; ironical.
Elao, to drive; elasticity.
Electron, amber; electricity.
Emeo, to vomit; emet'ic.

Epos, a word; epic, orthoepy.
Erēmos, a desert; eremite, hermit.
Ergon, a work; energy, metallurgy,
George.

Ethnos, a nation; ethnography, heathen.

Ethos, custom, manner; ethics. Etymos, true; etymon, etymology. Eu, well; eulogy, phony, -charist, evangelist.

Exo, out; Exōthen, from abroad; exot'ic.

Gala, galaktos, milk; galaxy. Gameo, to marry; bigʻamy, cryptog'amous, amalgamate. Gaster, the stomach; gastric, -onomy.

Ge, the earth; geography, -ology,

-ometry, George, ap'ogee. Genea, a generation, birth; genealogy, Genesis, heterogeneous, homo-, hydrogen, cosmog'ony. Ginosko, to know; prognostic, physiognomy.

Glossa or Glotta, the tongue; glos. | Idios, peculiar; idiom, -syn'crasy, sary, epiglottis, polyglot.

idiot.

Kaio, kauso, to burn; caustic, holocaust.

Glypho, to engrave; hieroglyphics. Isos, equal; isos'celes, isothermal, Gonia, a corner, angle; diagonal, -chronous. dec'agon, trigonometry. Gramma, a writing, letter; grammar, diagram, programme, telegram. Grapho, to write; graphic, autograph, biography, paragraph. Gymnos, naked; gymnastics, -a'sium.

Gynē, a woman; monogyn ́ia, misogynist.

Gyros, a circle; gyration, circum-.

Haima, blood; hemorrhage. Harmonia, agreement, musical concord; harmonious, in-. Hebdomas, a week; hebdom'adal. Hecaton, a hundred; hec'atomb. Hedra, a chair, assembly; cathedral, san'hedrim.

Helios, the sun; heliotrope, aphe'-
lion, peri-, Heliopolis.

Heměra, a day; ephemeral.
Hepta, seven; heptarchy.

Kakos, bad; cacoe'thes.
Kalos, beautiful; caligraphy, ka-
leidoscope.

Kalypto, to conceal; apocalypse.
Kanon, a rule; canon, -ical.
Kardia, the heart; pericardium.
Karpos, fruit, the wrist; pericarp,
metacarp.

Katharos, pure; cathartic.
Kenos, empty; cenotaph.
Kephale, the head; cephalic,
hydrocephalus.

Keras, a horn; ceras'tes,mono'ceros,
rhino..

Klazo, to break; iconoclast.
Klimax, a ladder; climax.
Kome, hair; comet.
Komos, a jovial meeting; comic,
comedy.

Heteros, another; het'erodox, ge- Koneo, to serve; deacon, arch-, sub-.

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Kopto, to cut; coppice, apoc'ope,

syn-.

Kosmos, order, the world; cosmetic,

cosmogony, -graphy, microcosm. Kranion, the skull; craniology, pericranium.

Krasis, temperament; idiosyn’crasy.
Kratos, power, rule; aristocracy,
demo-, theo., strato-.

Kritēs, a judge; critic, hypocrisy.
Krypto, to hide; crypt, cryptog'o-

mous, -graphy, apocrypha. Kurios, a lord; church, kirk. Kyclos, a circle; cycle, cyclopædia, en-, cy'cloid.

Kylindros, a roller; cylinder. -rical.
Kyön, kynos, a dog; cyn'ic, cy'-

nosure.

Labo, to take; astrolabe, syllable.
Laos, the people; la'ity, layman,
Archelaus.

Lego, lexo, to say; prolegom'ena,
dialect, lexicon, lexicog'rapher,
eclectic..

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Martyr, a witness; martyrdom.

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Mathēma, learning; mathematics, Pais, paidos, a boy; pedagogue,

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Meteōra, luminous bodies in the sky; meteor, mete'orous. Mēter, a mother; metropolis. Metron, a measure; meter, metre, barometer, chronometer, geometry, symmetry.

Mikros, small; microscope. Mimos, an imitator, buffoon; mimic, pantomime.

Misos, hatred; misanthropy. Mnēmē, remembrance; mnemonics, am'nesty.

Monos, alone; monk, monastery,
monarch, monody, monopoly,
monotony.
Morphe, shape; amorphous, meta-
morphose.

Myrias, ten thousand; myriad.
Mythos, a fable; myth, -ology.

Naus, a ship; nau'machy, nautical,
nau'sea, Argonaut.
Neos, new; neophyte, Naples.
Nesos, an island; Polynesia.
Nomos, a law; anomalous,

-baptist.

| Paideia, instruction; encyclopaedia. Pan, all; panace'a, pandect, panthe'on.

Pateo, to walk; peripatetic, patrol'. Pathos, feeling; pathetic, apathy, anti-, sym-.

Pente, five; pentateuch, -gon. Petalon, a leaf; pet'al, apet'alous. Phago, to eat; sarcophagus. Phaino, to shine; Phainomai, to

appear; sycophant, phenomenon, phantom, fancy.

Pharmakon, a drug; pharmacy, pharmacopæ ́ia.

Phemi, to speak; blaspheme, emphasis, euphemism.

Phero, to carry; metaphor, periph'

ery.

Philos, one who loves; philosophy,

-logy, -math, Philadelphia. Phobos, fear; hydrophobia. Phone, voice, sound; phonic, cacoph'ony, eu-, sym-.

Phos, photos, light; phosphorus, photog'raphy.

Phrasis, a saying; phraseology, paraphrase, periph ́rasis.

Phren, the mind; phrenology, frantic. anti-Phthongos, a sound; diphthong.

Physis, nature; physics, meta-.
Phyton, a plant; phytology, zoo-
phyte.

Planao, to wander; planet, -ary,
-arium.

Plasso, to form in clay; plastic,
plaster, cataplasm.
Pneuma, air, spirit; pneumatics,
peripneu'mony.
Polemos,war;pol'emarch, polem'ics.
Poleo, to sell; pharmacopolist,
monopoly.

Polis, a city; police', politics,
necropolis, Adrianople, Constan-
tin-.

Polys, many; polygon, -pus, pol'y-
theism.

Poros, a passage; porous, Bosphorus,
emporium.

Potamos, a river; Mesopotamia.
Pous, podos, a foot; antip'odes,
polypus.

Presbys, an elder; presbyterianism.
Protos, first; protocol, -type.
Pseudos, false; pseudo-prophet.
Psyche, the soul; psychology,
metem'psychosis.
Pyr, fire; pyre, pyramid,
technics, pyri'tes.

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Stoa, a porch; stoic, -ism.
Strategos, the leader of an army ;
strategy, stratagem.
Strophe, a turning; strophe, an-
tis'trophe.

Syle, plunder, prey; asylum.

Taphos, a tomb; epitaph, ceno..
Tasso, taxo, to arrange; tactics,
syntax.

Tautos, the same; tautology.
Techne, art; technical, polytechnic.
Tēlē, afar off; telegraph.
pyro-Thanatos, death; euthanasia.
Theatron, a place for seeing; thea-
tre, amphi-.
Theos, God; theology, apothe'osis,
atheist, Theophilus, Timothy.
Therme, heat; thermometer,
thermop'ylae.

Rheo, to flow; rhetoric, rheum,

catarrh, diarrhoea, hemorrhage.
Rhin, the nose; rhinoceros.
Rhythmos, harmony; rhythm,
rhyme.

Rhodon, a rose; rhododendron,
Rhoda.

Sarx, flesh; Sark'azo, I tear off the
flesh; sarcasm, sarcophagy.
Schema, a plan; scheme, -er.
Schizo, to split; schism, -atic.
Sepo, to rot; antiseptic.
Sitos, meat; parasite.
Skandalon, a stumbling block, of-
fence; scandal, -ous.
Skeptomai, to consider, doubt;
scepticism.

Skopeo, to view; scope, telescope,
episcopacy, bishop.
Sophia, wisdom; sophist, -ism.
Spao, to draw; spasmi, -odic.

Thesauros, a store laid up; treasure.
Timao, to fear; Timotheus.
Tome, a cutting, division; atom,
epitome.

Topos, a place; topography, Utopia.
Trophe, nourishment; atrophy.
Tropos, a turning, change; tropic,
heliotrope.

Typos, an impression; type, typo-
graphy.

Tyrannos, a ruler; tyr'anny, ty'-

rant.

Zelos, ardour; zeal, -ous, -ot.
Zoon, an animal; zodiac, zoology.

* Zeno, founder of the stoic philosophy,
taught in a porch at Athens.

FRENCH ROOTS,

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ENGLISH DERIVATIVES.

Abandonner (ah-bang-don-nay), to | Bois (b-wah), a wood; ambush, forsake; abandon, -ment.

hautboy, (ho'boy).

-ancy.

Brouiller (broo-ee-yay), to mix, confound; broil, embroil, dis-.

Abreger (ah-brai' -zhay), to shorten; Briller(bree'-yay),to shine; brilliant, abridge, -er, -ment. Aigre (aygr), keen, sour; eager, -ness, vinegar, aigrette, e'griot. Aise (ayze), comfort, joy; ease, -y, -ness, disease, uneasy. Aller (al'-lay), to go; alley. Allier (ah-lyay), to ally, mix; ally', alliance, alloy'.

Amateur (ah-ma-teur'), one fond of any science.

Ancien (ang-syaing), old; ancient, -ly.

Arriere (ah-ryayre), behind; rear, arrear, rearward.

Assassin (ah-sah'-saing), a secret murderer; assassin, ate, -ation. Attacher(at tah'-shay),to tie, fasten; attach, -ment, tache, tack. Avant (ah-vawn'), before; van, -guard, courier, advance, -ment, advantage, dis-, vantage-ground.

Barque (bark), a ship; bark, em

bark, disembark. Barre (bar), bar, bolt; barrier, -ricade, -rester, debar, embarrass. Battre (batr), to strike; batter. Beau (bo), fair, handsome; beau,

-ish, beau-monde, beauty, -ify. Belle (bell), fair, handsome; belle, belles lettres.

Benir (bai neer'), to bless; benison. Billet (be'-yay), a ticket, small note; bill, billet, billet-doux, (bil-le-doo). Blanc (blawng), white, pure; blank, carte-blanche, blanch, blench, bleach, blanket.

Caisse (kayss), a box, ready-money; case, -ment, cash, -ier, cask,

-et.

Canaille (kah-nah'-yay), the rabble, mob.

Chef, (shef), the head; chief, kerchief, achieve.

Chercher (shair'-shay), to seek;

search, research, unsearchable. Cheval (sh'-val), a horse; chivalry,

-rous.

Cheveu (sh'-veu'), the hair; dishevel.

Courber (koor'-bai), to bend; curb, uncurbed.

Coutume (koo-too-m), way, habit; costume'. Couvrir (koo-vreer'), to cover; discover, y, -able, recover, curtain, curfew, (couvre-feu).

Dame (dam), a lady; dame, dam, damsel, madam, (cont. malam), beldam. Devoir, (d'-vwar), duty; devoir, endeavour.

Dieu, God; adieu. Dompter (dong'-tay), to overcome; daunt, -less.

Drap (drah), cloth; drape, draper, drab. Droit (dr-wah), right, straight; adroit, -ly, -ness.

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