Greek and Latin in Scientific Terminology, Lecture 12
 Andrew Dunning
 27 November 2014

Final Exam
Wednesday, 17 Dec.
•	Cumulative: all Greek and Latin vocabulary is fair game, weighted equally.
•	Will also include Greek transliteration (i.e. rewriting words in the Greek alphabet into Roman characters, as in the first test).
Structure
•	Six sections.
•	Out of a total 250 marks.
I. Analyse
•	Historical and grammatical questions based on the lectures and readings: multiple choice.
•	10 marks
II. Transliterate
•	Rewrite the Greek words using the Roman alphabet.
•	Example: ἕλιξ
–	Answer: helix.
•	21 marks
III. Define
•	Provide a definition for Greek and Latin stems.
•	Example: TELE- (answer: afar)
•	50 Greek; 50 Latin
•	100 marks
IV. Read
•	Identify ten words from Latin or Greek in a following passage, breaking them down into their constituent parts and providing the definition of each stem.
•	Example answer: at/tent/ion/al: ‘to’ + ‘to hold’ + ‘state of’ + ‘pertaining to’.
•	20 marks
V. Dissect
•	Analyse the following words, dividing each word into its Latin and Greek elements and giving the meaning of each
•	Example: popular (2 marks).
–	Answer: popul/ar: ‘people’ + ‘having the character of’.
•	58 marks
VI. Translate
•	Form a complete English word from the Latin or Greek roots corresponding to the definitions provided.
•	Example: ‘before’, ‘in front of’ + ‘back’ + ‘pertaining to’, ‘like’, ‘belonging to’, ‘having the character of’ (Latin, 3 marks)
–	Answer: ante/dors/al.
•	41 marks
Counting in Latin
SEMI-
•	‘half’, ‘partly’
•	SEMI-LUN-ate, half-moon-shaped; SEMI-CAUD-ate, with a rudimentary tail
UN-
•	‘one’ (unus)
•	UN-ique; UN-iform; UN-ANIM-ity; UNI-FOLI-ate, with one leaf; UNI-PAR-ous, producing one offspring at a birth; UNI-STRATE, having only one layer
PRIM-
•	‘first’ (primus)
•	PRIM-ary; PRIM-ates, the highest order of the vertebrate class Mammalia, including man, apes, monkeys and lemurs; PRIMI-PAR-ous, pertaining to a woman bearing or giving birth to her first child
SESQUI-
•	‘one-and-a-half times’
•	SESQUI-CENT-ENNI-ial; SEQUI-CHLOR-ide, a compound of chlorine and another element containing three parts of chlorine and two of the other element; SESQUI-OX-ide
DU-
•	‘two’ (duo)
•	DU-et; DU-al; DU-PLIC-ate; DU-PLICI-DENT, with two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw;
BI-, BIN-
•	‘two’, ‘twice’
•	BI-NATE, growing in pairs; BI-FID, forked, opening with a median cleft; BI-STRAT-ose, with cells arranged in two layers
SECOND-, SECUND-
•	‘second’, ‘following’ (secundus)
•	SECOND-ary; SECUNDI-GRAV-ida, a woman pregnant the second time
TRI-
•	‘three’
•	TRI-DENT; TRI-VI-al; TRI-COST-ate, with three ribs; TRI-FID, cleft to form three lobes
TERTI-
•	‘third’
•	TERTI-ary, third, pertaining to third stage of disease; TERT-ian, recurring every other day, as a tertian fever
TERN-
•	‘three each’; TER-, ‘three times’
•	TERN-ary, consisting of or based on three, or pertaining to a crystal system in which three-sided forms occur, or an alloy with three elements; TER-VAL-ent, having a valence of three, triple
QUADR(U)-
•	‘four’
•	QUADRU-PLE; QUADRI-JUG-ate, applies to pinnate lear having four pairs of leaflets; QUADRU-PED, a four-footed animal
QUART-
•	‘fourth’; QUATERN-, ‘four each’
•	QUART-an, recurring every three days (or four, counting inclusively), as on first, fourth and seventh day; QUATERN-ate, in sets of four (applies to leaves growing in fours from one point
QUINQUE-
•	‘five’
•	QUINQUE-PART-ite, divided into five parts
QUINT-
•	‘fifth’; QUIN-, ‘five each’
•	QUIN-ary, applies to flower symmetry in which there are five parts to a whorl; QUINTU-PL-et, one of five children born at one birth
SEX-
•	‘six’; SEXT-, ‘sixth’
•	SEXT-ant, a maximum angle of sixty degrees; SEX-OSTI-atae, group of spiders marked by six cardiac ostia
SEPT-, SEPTEM-
•	‘seven’; SEPTIM-, ‘seventh’
•	SEPTEM-ber; SEPTEM-PART-ite, divided into seven parts; SEPTIM-al, based on the number seven
OCT-
•	‘eight’; OCTAV-, ‘eighth’
•	OCT-ave; OCT-avo; OCTO-RADI-ate, having eight rays or arms; OCT-ane, the eighth member of the paraffin or marsh gas series
NOVEM-
•	‘nine’; NON-, ‘ninth’
•	NOVEM-ber; NON-illion, ten to the thirtieth power; NON-an, having an exacerbation every ninth day
DECEM-
•	‘ten’; DEC-, DECIM-, ‘tenth’
•	DECIM-ate; DECI-LITRE, one-tenth of a litre; DECEM-FID, cleft into ten parts
CENT-
•	‘hundred’, ‘hundredth’
•	CEN-ENN-ial; CENT-uri-on; CENTI-PEDE, elongated segmented arthropods with many legs; CENTI-metre, one-hundredth of a metre
MIL(L)-
•	‘thousand’, ‘thousandth’
•	MILL-ENN-ium; MILLI-PEDE, myriopods constituting the the class Diplopoda having numerous segments and legs; MILLI-metre, one-thousandth of a metre
Greek and Latin in the Metric System
Original Metric Prefixes
Text
	Factor
	Derivation
	
myria
	10000
	Greek, ‘10,000’
	
kilo
	1000
	Greek, ‘thousand’
	
hecto
	100
	Greek, ‘hundred’
	
deca
	10
	Greek, ‘ten’
	
(none)
	1
		
deci
	0.1
	Latin, ‘tenth’
	
centi
	0.01
	Latin, ‘hundred’
	
milli
	0.001
	Latin, ‘thousand’

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Text
	Factor
	Derivation
	
tera
	1000000000000
	Greek, ‘monster’
	
giga
	1000000000
	Greek, ‘giant’
	
mega
	1000000
	Greek, ‘great’
	
kilo
	1000
	Greek, ‘thousand’
	
hecto
	100
	Greek, ‘hundred’
	
deca
	10
	Greek, ‘ten’
	
(none)
	1
		
deci
	0.1
	Latin, ‘tenth’
	
centi
	0.01
	Latin, ‘hundred’
	
milli
	0.001
	Latin, ‘thousand’
	
micro
	0.000001
	Greek, ‘small’
	
nano
	0.000000001
	Greek, ‘dwarf’
	
pico
	0.000000000001
	Spanish, ‘little bit’

The Third Declension
Case Review
•	Nominative case: used to indicate the subject of a sentence.
•	Accusative case: used to indicate the object of a sentence.
•	Genitive case: used to indicate possession or close association.
Odd Things in the Third Declension
•	Often a significant difference between the nominative singular and the root that we end up with in English.
•	Ending for the nominative singular is inconsistent.
•	Often impossible to guess the gender by looking at the ending of the word.
Masculine and Feminine Nouns
	Singular
	Plural
	
Nominative
	— (e.g. radix)
	-es (e.g. radices)
	
Genitive
	-is (e.g. radicis)
	-um (-ium) (e.g. radicium)

Neuter Nouns
	Singular
	Plural
	
Nominative
	— (e.g. foramen)
	-a (-ia) (e.g. foramina)
	
Genitive
	-is (e.g. foraminis)
	-um (-ium) (e.g. foraminum)

Adjectives
	Masc. and Fem.
	Neuter
	Masc. and Fem.
	Neuter
	
	singular
		plural
		
nom.
	-is (e.g. dorsalis)
	-e (e.g. dorsale)
	-es (e.g. dorsales)
	-ia (e.g. dorsalia)
	
gen.
	-is (e.g. dorsalis)
	-is (e.g. doralis)
	-ium (e.g. dorsalium)
	-ium (e.g. dorsalium)

adductor brevis
ductus semicircularos
filum terminale
os terminale
incisura anterior auris
cornu inferius
musculi subcostales
arteriae recurrentes
digitus annularis
nervus abducens
foramen occipale magnum
venae comitantes
arteria dorsalis
fissura longitudinalis cerebri
musculus cervicalis ascendens
musculi intercostales externi
The Fourth Declension
Fourth Declension: Masculine
	Singular
	Plural
	
Nominative
	-us (e.g. ductus)
	-us (e.g. ductus)
	
Genitive
	-us (e.g. ductuum)
	-uum (e.g. ductuum)

Fourth Declension: Neuter
	Singular
	Plural
	
Nominative
	-u (e.g. cornu)
	-ua (e.g. cornua)
	
Genitive
	-us or -u (e.g. cornu[s])
	-uum (e.g. cornuum)

ductus lacrimales
ligamenta collateralia articulationum digitorum manus
genu internum radicis nervi (facialis)
septum sinuum (frontalium)
arteria genu (suprema)
ligamenta (cruciata) genu
processus articulares
apertura externa aqueductus vestibuli
cervix cornu
The Fifth Declension
The Fifth Declension
	Singular
	Plural
	
Nominative
	-es (e.g. scabies)
	-es (e.g. scabies)
	
Genitive
	-ei or -u (e.g. scabiei)
	-erum (e.g. scabierum)

facies dorsalis
arteria transversa faciei
facies articulares inferiores
Back to the Greeks
The Sanctuary at Epidaurus
•	This was a major Greek temple where people went for healing.
•	See Who were the Greeks?, ep. 1, 22m7s.
•	What is familiar about the practices here? How does the mindset here differ from that of a modern hospital?
•	Are the approaches here effective methods of informing patients about the
•	Medical knowlege aside, where would you rather be treated?
Romans to the Early Modern Period
Today
•	Marečková et al. (2002) demonstrate that Latin is still a primary means of commmunication: they examine anatomical nomenclature, terms in clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical terminology.
•	Notes the attitude that it doesn’t necessarily matter (and might even be preferable) if the patient does not know what the term means.
–	Pliny the Elder: the Roman people ‘believe less what regards their own health, if they understand’
•	Outlines the development of the Terminologia Anatomica (International Anatomical Terminology).
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•	The Greeks and Romans got quite a ways by thinking about a subject, rationalizing it, as opposed to observation.
•	What questions are we asking now that might be pointing us in the right direction but might be based on our past, and that we have no way of proving?
Roots, Part I
FACI-, (-FICI-)
•	‘face’, ‘surface’ (facies)
•	BI-FACI-al, applies to leaves with distinct upper and lower surfaces; CORONO-FACI-al, relating to the crown of the head and the face; inter-FACE, a surface which forms the boundary between two faces or systems; super-FICIES, outer surface
FRUG-, FRUCT-
•	‘fruit’ (frux)
•	FRUCTI-FIC-at-ion, fruit formation; FRUCT-ose, fruit sugar; FRUCT-esc-ence, the period of maturing of fruits
GEMIN-
•	‘twin’, ‘paired’ (geminus); GEMELL-, dimin. (gemellus)
•	GEMIN-ate, growing in pairs, paired; BI-GEMIN-ate, doubly paired, twin-forked; BI-GEMIN-y, the condition of occurring in pairs, or in cardiology, a premature beat coupled with each normal heartbeat
GEN-, GENIT-
•	‘to produce’, ‘to beget’; GENER-, ‘race’, ‘kind’ (genus)
•	pro-GENIT-or; con-GENI-al; con-GEN-er, a person, animal, plant or thing allied by origin, nature or function to another; GENIT-al; GENER-ic
GINGIV-
•	‘the gums’ (gingiva)
•	GINGIVA, the gums; LABIO-GINGIV-al, pertaining to the lips and gums
INCUD-
•	‘anvil’ (incus)
•	INCUS, the middle arc of the chain of ossicles in the ear, so named from its resemblance to an anvil; INCUD-ectomy, surgical removal of the incus
LUTE-
•	‘yellow’, ‘corpus luteum’ (luteus)
•	CORPUS LUTEUM, the yellow endocrine body formed in the ovary at the site of a ruptured Graafian follicle; LUTE-al, pertaining to the corpus luteum; LUTE-in, a yellow chemical isolated from egg yolk
MALLE-
•	‘hammer’ (malleus)
•	MALLEUS, one of the ossicles of the inner ear having the shape of a hammer; MALLE-at-ion, a spasmodic action of the hands, consisting of continuously striking any nearby object
NOD-
•	‘knot’ (nodus)
•	NODE, the knob or joint of a stem at which the leaves arise, or an aggregation of specialized cardiac cells, or any small rounded organ, knob or protuberance
OLE-
•	‘oil’ (oleum)
•	OLE-in, a fat which is liquid at ordinary temperatures, found in animal and vegetable tissues; OLEI-FER-ous, producing oil
ORB-, ORBIT-
•	‘circle’, ‘cavity of the eye’ (orbita)
•	ORB; ORB-it; ORB-icul-ate, nearly circular in outline (applies to leaves); ORBITO-MAL-ar, pertaining to orbit and malar bones
PALPEBR-
•	‘eyelid’ (palpebra)
•	PALPEBRA, either of the two movable folds that protect the eyeball; PALPEBR-ate, furnished with eyelids, or to wink
PEL(L)-, PULS-
•	‘to push’, ‘to drive’, ‘to beat’
•	re-PEL; ex-PULS-ion; PULS-at-ile, pulsating, throbbing; PULS-ellum, a flagellum situated at the posterior end of the protozoan body
PLUR-
•	‘more’, ‘many’ (plus)
•	PLUR-al-ity; PLURI-VOR-ous, living upon several hosts, as fungus; PLURI-LOC-ul-ar, having more than one compartment or loculus
SCAND- (-SCEND-), SCANS-
•	‘to climb’
•	a-SCEND; de-SCEND; SCANS-or-ius, the small, anterior gluteal muscle; SCANS-ores an order of birds having two toes before and two behind, such as parrots
SCOP-
•	‘broom’, ‘brush’ (scopa)
•	SCOP-ate, having a tuft of hair like a brush; SCOP-arius, a species of shrub commonly called broom-tops
SOLV-, SOLUT-
•	‘to loosen’, ‘to dissolve’
•	SOLUTE, the dissolved substance in a SOLUT-ion; ab-SOL-ute, free from admixture
STRI-
•	‘furrow’, ‘groove’, (stria)
•	STRIA, a streak or a line, a narrow, band-like structure; STRI-at-ure, striation, state of being striated, or the arrangement of striae
TEND-, TENS-, TENT-
•	‘to stretch’; TENDIN-, ‘tendon’ (tendo)
•	TENS-ion, the act of the stretching, the state of being stretched or strained; dis-TENS-ion, a state of dilation; TENS-or, a muscle that serves to make a part tense
VELL-, VULS-
•	‘to tear’
•	a-VULS-ion, the forcible tearing or wrenching away of a part, as a polyp or a limb; re-VULS-ion, the drawing, by irritation, of blood from a distant part of the body
Roots, Part II
ALVEOL-
•	‘cavity’, ‘hollow’ (alveolus)
•	ALVEOL-ar, relating to an alveolus; ALVEOL-us, a small cavity, pit, or hollow, in particular: any of the many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gaseous exchange; the bony socket for the root of a tooth; an acinus (sac-like cavity) in a gland; ALVEOL-ation, the formation of alveoli
ATRI-
•	‘entrance hall’, ‘room’ (atrium)
•	ATRI-um, each of the two upper cavities of the heart from which blood is passed to the ventricles; ATRIO-VENTR-icular, relating to the atrial and ventricular chambers of the heart, or the connection or coordination between them
AX-
•	‘axis’ (axis)
•	AX-ial, relating to or forming an axis; AB-AX-ial, facing away from the stem of a plant (in particular denoting the lower surface of a leaf); AD-AX-ial, facing towards the stem of a plant (in particular denoting the upper surface of a leaf); AXO-POD-ium, a pseudopodium with axial filament
BARB-
•	‘beard’ (barba)
•	barber; BARB-ule, a minute filament projecting from the barb of a feather; BARB-ate, bearded; BARBI-cel, a small process on a feather barbule
BIL-
•	‘bile’ (bilis)
•	BILI-ous, affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting; BILI-RUB-in, an orange-yellow pigment formed in the liver by the breakdown of haemoglobin and excreted in bile; BILI-VERD-in, a green pigment excreted in bile (the oxidized derivative of bilirubin); BILI-ary, relating to bile or the bile duct.
BRACT(E)-
•	‘thin plate’ (bractea)
•	BRACT, a modified leaf or scale, typically small, with a flower or flower cluster in its axil; BRACTE-ate, having or bearing bracts; BRACTE-ole, a small bract, esp. one on a floral stem
BURS-
•	‘bag’, ‘pouch’ (bursa)
•	bursary; bursar; disburse; reimburse; BURSA, a fluid-filled sac or sac-like cavity, especially one countering friction at a joint; BURS-itis, inflammation of a bursa, typically one in a shoulder joint; BURS-icle, a pouch-like receptacle
CLAV-
•	‘club’ (clava)
•	CLAV-ate or CLAV-iform, club-shaped; thicker at the apex than the base; ob-CLAV-ate, club-shaped and attached at the thicker end
EGO-
•	‘I’
•	egotism; egotistical; ALTER-EGO-ism, an altruistic feeling for only those who are in the same situation as oneself; EGO-mania, obsessive egotism or self-centredness; super-EGO, the part of a person’s mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers
ILE-
•	‘ileum’ (ileum)
•	ILEUM, the third portion of the small intestine, between the jejunum and the caecum; ILE-ac, pertaining to the ileum; ILEO-COL-ic, pertaining to the ileum and the colon
ILI-
•	‘flank, hip’ (ilium)
•	ILIO-CAUD-al, connecting the ilium and the tail (applies to the muscle); SACRO-ILI-ac, pertaining to the ilium and sacrum
LENT-
•	‘lentil’, ‘lens’ (lens)
•	LENT-ic-el, one of many raised pores in the stem of a woody plant that allows gas exchange between the atmosphere and the internal tissues; lenticular, shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex; relating to the lens of the eye; LENTI-GER-ous, furnished with a lens
PILE-
•	‘felt cap’ (pileus)
•	PILEUS, (in botany) the cap of a mushroom or toadstool; (in anatomy) one of the cerebellar hemispheres; the membrane which sometimes covers a child’s head at birth; PILE-ated, crested (e.g. pileated woodpecker)
SPIC-
•	‘point’, ‘spike’ (spica)
•	SPIC-ule or SPIC-ula, a small, spike-shaped bone; a needle-like body; SPIC-ate, spiked; SPIC-ulum, the dart of a snail
UNC-, UNCIN-
•	‘hook’ (uncus; uncinus)
•	ad-UNC-ate, crooked; bent in the form of a hook; UNCI-form, shaped like a hook or barb; UNCI-FER-ous, bearing hooks or hook-like processes; UNCIN-ula, a genus of mildew with hooked appendages
Roots, Part III
CAN-
•	‘white’, ‘grey’ (canus); CAND-, ‘to be glowing white’
•	candid; candidate; candour; in-CAND-esc-ent, emitting light as a result of being heated; CAN-ities, greyness or whiteness of the hair
CLAV-
•	‘key’, ‘collarbone’ (clavis)
•	enclave; exclave; clavichord; CLAV-icle, the collarbone; sub-CLAV-ian, under the clavicle; CLAVIC-ular, pertaining to the clavicle
CLIN-
•	‘to slope’, ‘to lean’ (KLIN- in Greek)
•	incline; decline; CLINO-CEPHA-ly, congenital flatness or concavity of the vertex of the head; syn-CLINE, a trough or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope upwards from the axis
CREN-
•	‘notch’ (crena)
•	CREN-ate, having a round-toothed or scalloped edge (especially of a leaf or shell); CREN-ul-ate, having a finely scalloped or notched outline or edge (especially of a leaf, shell, or shoreline)
FAV-
•	‘honeycomb’ (favus)
•	FAV-ella, a conceptacle of certain red algae; FAV-eol-ate, honeycombed or alveolate; FAVUS, a distinctive type of tinea capitis characterized by the formation of honeycomb-like mats
FRONT-
•	‘forehead’, ‘front’ (frons)
•	FRONS (pl. frontes), the forehead or equivalent part of an animal, especially the middle part of an insect’s face between the eyes and above the clypeus; FRONT-al, relating to the forehead or front part of the skull; FRONT-al BONE, the bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets; FRONT-ad, toward the frontal aspect; FRONTO-NAS-al, pertaining to the frontal sinus and the nose
FRUCTIC-
•	‘shrub’ (frutex)
•	FRUTEX, a shrub; FRUTIC-ose, (of a lichen) having upright or pendulous branches; FRUT-esc-ent, shrublike
INGUIN-
•	‘groin’ (inguen)
•	INGUIN-al, of the groin; ex-INGUIN-al, occurring outside the groin; INGUINO-DYN-ia, pain in the groin
LAN-
•	‘wool’ (lana)
•	LAN-OL-in, a fatty substance found naturally on sheep’s wool; LAN-UGO, fine, soft hair, especially that which covers the body and limbs of a human fetus; LAN-UG-inous, covered with down
LOB-
•	‘lobe’ (lobus)
•	LOBO-tomy, a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness; LOB-ule, a small lobe; LOB-ular, pertaining to a lobule
LUMB-
•	‘loin’ (lumbus)
•	LUMB-ar, relating to the lower part of the back; LUMB-ago, pain in the muscles and joints of the lower back
NUD-
•	‘naked’ (nudus)
•	NUDI-BRANCHI-ate, having gills not covered by a protective shell or membrane; NUDI-CAUD-ate, having a tail not covered by hair or fur
PAR-
•	‘equal’ (par)
•	PAR-ity, the state or condition of being equal; PARI-VINC-ular, applies to the bivalve hinge ligament attached to nymphae; PARI-PINN-ate, pinnate without a terminal leaflet; dis-PAR-ate, not situated alike
TEMPOR-
•	‘the temples’ (tempora, pl.)
•	TEMPOR-al, (in anatomy) of or situated in the temples of the head; infra-TEMPOR-al, below the temporal fossa; PARIETO-TEMPOR-al, pertaining to the parietal and temporal bones or lobes; TEMPOR-al BONE, either of a pair of bones which form part of the side of the skull on each side and enclose the middle and inner ear; TEMPOR-al-is, a fan-shaped muscle which runs from the side of the skull to the back of the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing
VITELL-
•	‘yolk of an egg’ (vitellus)
•	VITELLUS, the yolk of an egg or ovum; VITELL-in, the chief protein constituent of egg yolk; VITELL-ine, relating to the yolk (or yolk sac) of an egg or embryo, or to yolk-producing organs; VITELL-ine MEMBRANE, a transparent membrane surrounding and secreted by the fertilized ovum, preventing the entry of further spermatozoa; VITELLO-GEN-in, a protein present in the blood, from which the substance of egg yolk is derived