"ious" means viruses.
Kill or die, although the stem is actually "nekros", Greek for death.
The origin of ize is the Greek verb ending "izein." It loosely translates as: to make it into.
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."
The affix "-ious" is used to form adjectives and means "having the quality of" or "full of." It is often used to indicate a characteristic or quality of something.
Bibliography originally comes from the Greek 'biblion' meaning 'book' and 'graphia' meaning 'writing'.
grace, meaning kind or gentle.
The stem for "melancholy" is "melancho-," which comes from the Greek word "melankholia," meaning "black bile." In ancient Greek medicine, it was believed that an excess of black bile in the body caused melancholy, a state of deep sadness and gloom. The stem "melancho-" is commonly used in words related to sadness or depression.
what does the prefix ious mean
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
The suffix -ious means relation to. This is shown in factious.
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.
from Greek χρονικά [chroneeka] < χρόνος = time / year