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"ious" means viruses.
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What is the meaning of the stem word nec?
Kill or die, although the stem is actually "nekros", Greek for death.
What is the meaning of the greek stem ize?
The origin of ize is the Greek verb ending "izein." It loosely translates as: to make it into.
What is the meaning of the suffix tious?
It is etymologically rooted in "gene" and "ous." "Gene" refers to the most basic unit of life, and "ous" comes from the Greek, meaning abundant, or full of. "-geneous," then, means "full of life."
What is the stem of the word bibliography?
Bibliography originally comes from the Greek 'biblion' meaning 'book' and 'graphia' meaning 'writing'.
What is a base word for gracious?
grace, meaning kind or gentle.
What is the fear of legs called?
No idea However scelido is a Greek stem meaning limb and cnem is part of a Greek stem meaning leg Thus scelidophobia (literally fear of limbs) or cnemophobia (literally fear of legs) are words that can be made up and may well pass as the correct terms
What does ious mean at the end of a word?
what does the prefix ious mean
What does the suffix ose means?
In science, it relates to a type of sugar. In language, it is the same suffix relation as ous, eous, and ious, meaning: Full of.
What is the meaning for dolphine?
The word is thought to ultimately stem from the Greek delphus, which means womb, as a dolphin was then thought to be a fish with a womb.
What does ious- mean?
The suffix -ious means relation to. This is shown in factious.
What is the stem for melancholy?
Melancholy is taken from the Greek word melancholia which meant sadness, although its original meaning was "black bile" (Greek melas, black and cholia, bile).The word is not formed from a stem modified with a prefix or suffix. It has no stem.
What does chron mean in Latin?
from Greek χρονικά [chroneeka] < χρόνος = time / year
