Through the text "Structure and formation of words”, you could learn a little more about the elements that make up the words that make up our lexicon (vocabulary that we have on a daily basis to establish communication in general). Thus, he found that each piece, grammatically called a morpheme, joins the root, forming a new word, which is why we know so many, isn't it true?
Well, what perhaps I did not know yet concerns the origin of certain words that, although so used in everyday life, they present themselves to us as unknown as far as the roots are concerned, because as you know, many of them originated from other languages, especially the language greek and the language latin. So, given that reason, how about we get to know some examples, huh? In addition to expanding our competence with regard to the aspects that constitute the language we speak, we also become wiser about what every user should always be aware of. So let's get to what interests us? So, look at some examples:
Hybridisms result from the joining of elements belonging to other languages
Alkaloid – Alkali (Arabic) + oid (Greek)
Alcoholometer - Alcohol (Arabic) + subway (Greek)
Autoclave - Self (Greek) + key (Latin)
Bicycle - Bi (latin) + cycle (Greek) + ok (-ette, French)
Bureaucracy - buro (French) + cracia (Greek)
Intravenous – Endo (Greek) + venous (Latin)
Hyperacidity – Hyper (Greek) + acidity (Portuguese)
Monoculture - Mono (Greek) + Culture (Latin)
Psychomotor - psycho (Greek) + motor (Latin)
Romanist - Roman (latin) + -hey (Greek)
Sociology - Partner (latin) + -logy (Greek)
Zincography - Zinc (German) + spelling (Greek)
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
