The word "lith" being used as a prefix and as a suffix.
The term "photo" comes from the Greek word "phōs," meaning light, while "geo" comes from the Greek word "gē," meaning earth or land.
Lithium coming from the greek work lithos, which is roughly translated at stone
The Paleolithic Era was an early period of the Stone Age. The word comes from the Greek palaios, meaning "old", and lithos, meaning "stone".
If the Rosetta Stone was never found, we probably could still not understand Egyptian hieroglyphs. By using the Rosetta Stone, people can compare them to the other language (Greek) because when this was figured out, Greek language still was around. If this stone would have never been found, we could not decipher the meaning of Egyptain hieroglyphs.
Neolithic
It Greek and means 'Stone'
The root meaning of lithium comes from the Greek word "lithos," which means stone. This refers to lithium's discovery in mineral form and its association with rocks and minerals.
the Rosetta stone was a stone found in the river Rosetta in Egypt, and had writing scribed on it in three different languages, Greek being one of them.
The Rosetta Stone. It contained Greek language and we know how to speak Greek.
The name of the element Lithium comes from the Greek word "lithos", meaning "stone".Word Origin Greek: lithos, stone.
the greek word for stone is πέτρα (petra). The root word is petro- like in the word petroleum : the oil from the stone,from earth (the crude oil). No element (Periodic Table) has the word petro-.
"Tombstone" comes from the words "tomb" and "stone." Tomb is Greek and stone is Germanic.