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GREEK WORD PARTS. GRADE 5 SPELLING WORDS. BACKGROUND INFORMATION. The English language comes from many other languages. Most of the words are borrowed from words in other countries. This week’s Spelling words are from Greece. They are prefixes and suffixes that you use almost everyday.
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GREEK WORDPARTS GRADE 5 SPELLING WORDS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION • The English language comes from many other languages. Most of the words are borrowed from words in other countries. • This week’s Spelling words are from Greece. • They are prefixes and suffixes that you use almost everyday. • Some of these words can be used without being a prefix or a suffix.
Greece is located on the southern part of Europe, just above the Mediterranean Sea.
Greek parts to look at • Phone • Graph • Micro • Tele • Scope
1. -phone • From the Greek word “phōnē”. • Means “voice or sound”. • Sometimes can mean “speech”. • Often used as a suffix but can be a prefix also.
Words with phone • Telephone- an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device. • Microphone-an instrument capable of transforming sound waves into changes in electric currents or voltage, used in recording or transmitting sound. • Saxophone- a musical wind instrument consisting of a conical, usually brass tube with keys or valves and a mouthpiece with one reed. Named after its inventor Antoine Sax. • Xylophone-musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden (xylo) bars, usually sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.
Words with phone • Symphony-harmony of sounds, as in an orchestra. • Megaphone – a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bull horn. • Phonetic - pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols, agreeing with pronunciation.
2. -graph • Comes from the Greek word “graphos”. • Means “something is written or drawn”. • Often used as a suffix. • Sometimes used as word all by itself.
Words with graph • Photograph – writing created by light (in simple terms, a picture). • Biography – writing about a person’s life written by someone else. • Autobiography - a history of a person's life written or told by that person. • Bibliography - a list of source materials that are used in writing a paper or essay. • Paragraph - a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
3. micro- • Comes from the Greek word “mīkrŏs”. • Means “small” or “enlarge”. • Often used as a prefix. • Can be confused with “macro”, which means the opposite.
Words with micro • Microphone-an instrument capable of transforming sound waves into changes in electric currents or voltage, used in recording or transmitting sound. • Microscope - an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye. • Microbe - a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium. • Microwave - an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
4. tele • Comes from the Greek word “tele”. • Means “far or at a distance, distant”. • Can be spelled “tel-”, “teleo-”, “telo-”.
Words with tele • Television-the broadcasting of a still or moving image via radiowaves to receivers that project a view of the image on a picture tube. • Telepathy-communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception. • Telecommute-working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment. • Telephone-an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
Words with tele • Telegraph -an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
Bonus: scope • Comes from the Greek word “skopos”. • Means “to watch”. • Often used as a suffix. • Also used as a word all by itself.
Words with scope • Horoscope – a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc. “Horo” means hour. • Microscope – an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye. • Telescope – an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer.
What’s the point? • Knowing words parts helps you become a better reader. • Knowing a word’s origin (where the word is from) helps you spell them correctly. • Knowing word parts helps you use context clues better. • The more words you know and understand, the more you understand when you read. • Study your spelling words!!!!!!!
