Studies in Etymology 2E

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Studies in Etymology, Second Edition

Charles W. Dunmore

NYU (Emeritus)

Rita M. Fleischer

The City University of New York Graduate School

2008 • 978-1-58510-012-5 • paper • 246 pages • 7x10 • $28.95

Studies in Etymology is designed for courses in word formation, etymology, word power, etc., as taught in departments of Classics.

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Description

Studies in Etymology is a standard introduction to the Classical etymology of the English language with equal coverage of Latin and Greek roots. The book is ideal for college-level classics or humanities courses of all designs. The book includes extensive exercises for each chapter, additional words for study, and indexes of prefixes, suffixes, and word stems.

Author

Charles W. Dunmore was a member of the faculty of the department of classics of New York University for many years, serving as chairman of that department at the time of his retirement. He was a consulting editor on Latin and Greek etymology in the preparation of The World Book Encyclopedia, and is the author of Selections from Ovid (Focus Publishing), and co-author, with Rita M. Fleischer, of Dunmore and Fleischer's Medical Terminology, edition III (F.A. Davis Company).

Rita M. Fleischer, co-author with Floyd L. Moreland of Latin: An Intensive Course (University of California Press) and with Charles W. Dunmore of Dunmore and Fleischer's Medical Terminology, has taught in the classics departments of public and private universities in the Metropolitan New York area and for many years in the highly-intensive Latin/Greek Institute of Brooklyn College and The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, where she is currently Administrative Director for Foreign Language.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction

The Language of England. The Romans Arrive in Britain. Angles, Saxons and Jutes. The Vikings. Old English. The Norman Conquest. The Middle-English Period: 1150-1500. Modern English. The Renaissance. Borrowed Words. Indo-European. The Homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. The Indo-European Language Groups:

Albanian. Anatolian. Armenian. Balto-Slavic. Celtic. Germanic. Greek. Linear B: A Mystery. Indo-Iranian: Indic. Indo-Iranian: Iranian. Italic. The Romance Languages. Tocharian.

Cognate Languages. Questions.

LESSON 1

A Brief History of the English Language. Modern English. Latin Nouns. Latin Adjectives. Third Declension Nouns. The Plural of Latin Nouns Used as English Words. Concrete and Abstract Nouns. Third Declension Adjectives. Suffixes. English Words from Latin Words without Suffixes. Eight Suffixes. Vocabulary. Notes:

Provence. The Vulgate. Big Bear and Little Bear. Corpus. Mens Sana in Corpore Sano.

Using the Dictionary. Exercises.

LESSON 2

Latin Verbs. Latin Infinitives. Perfect Participles. Prefixes. The Suffix -ion. Vowel Weakening in Latin Verbs. Vocabulary. The Present Participle. Assimilation of Prefixes. Prefixes. Suffixes. The Suffixes
-able and -ible. The Suffixes -acious and -acity. Latin Words Ending in -uus. Latin Words Ending in -ium. The Suffix -ment. English Verbs in -ize. The Native English Suffixes -ed, -ing and -ly. Changed Meaning in English Compound Nouns. Irregular Spellings. Notes:

The French Influence. Currants, Raisins, and Currency.

Exercises.

LESSON 3

Denominative Verbs. Present Participles. Hiatus. Denominative Verbs from Adjectives in -is. Verbs with Infinitives in -i. Frequentative Verbs. French Words in English. The Changes from Latin to French. Doublets. Nouns with Stems in -u-. Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Notes:

Rhotacism. Derivatives of vidēre. Providence. The Two Meanings of regere and legere. An Incident in Prague.

Exercises.

LESSON 4

Verbs with Infinitives in -ire and -iri. Present Participles of Verbs in -ere and -i. Vocabulary. Prefix. Suffix. Notes:

Cognates. Merry Christmas. More Influence from French. The Prince. Feet. Gentlemen. Unconscionable. Orthograde and Retrograde.

Exercises.

LESSON 5

Inceptive Verbs. English Words in -id and -or. English Verbs in -ish. English Nouns in -age. Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Notes:

Chile Con Carne. Candidates and Candles. A Bowl of Chowder. The Irregular Verb ire, itus. Prolific facere. Duty. Trivial. Hail and Farewell.

Exercises.

LESSON 6

Gerundives. Vocabulary. Prefix. Suffixes. Denominative Verbs in -igare, -igatus. Stare, status; sistere, status; statuere, statutus. Notes:

Unspeakable. Fate. Best and Worst. Negative. The Day the Sun Stood Still. Stationary and Stationery.

Exercises.

LESSON 7

Diminutive Nouns. Nouns of the Fifth Declension. Vocabulary. Notes:

Genus and Species: Binomial Nomenclature. Influence and Influenza. Occident and Orient. Capital and Capitol. Host or Guest? A Journey into the Underworld. Oscillate and Osculate. Treason. Curriculum Vitae. Inauspicious.

Exercises.

LESSON 8

Greek Words in the English Language. The Greek Alphabet. Vowels. Sigma. The Sound of "h." Aspirated Consonants. Greek Kappa. Greek Rho. Greek Gamma. Greek Psi. Greek Diphthongs in English. Greek Nouns and Adjectives. The Formation of English Words from Greek. Combining Forms. The Combining Vowel. Greek Accents. Vocabulary. Suffixes. Combining Forms. Notes:

Sink or Swim. Phi Beta Kappa. Philosophy. Cosmopolitan. The Meter.

Exercises.

LESSON 9

More Greek Nouns. More Greek Adjectives. Greek Verbs. Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Notes:

Hybrids. Poison! Pandemonium. Pandora’s Gifts. Graphs and Grams. Full Dress.

Exercises.

LESSON 10

Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Combining Form. Notes:

Greek Mythology. Morpheus. Iris. Echo, Narcissus, and Nemesis. Disaster!

Exercises.

LESSON 11

Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Greek Names:

Meander. Achilles. Terpsichore. Heracles. Odyssey.

Notes:

Ballistics. Anesthesia. Analyst and Catalyst. Palimpsest. Epenthesis and Metathesis.

Exercises.

LESSON 12

Greek Numerals. Groups of Numbers. Vocabulary. Notes:

Pedagogue and Demagogue. Prologue and Epilogue. The Metric System Revisited. Hexameter Poetry. Greek Tragedy.

Exercises.

LESSON 13

Vocabulary. Suffixes. More Tales from Mythology.

The Minotaur. Procrustes. Proteus.

Notes:

Genesis. Idiot! Maniac! Oxymoron.

Exercises.

LESSON 14

Greek Words in Medical Terminology. Vocabulary. Prefixes. Suffixes. Combining Forms. Notes:

Inflammation. Carcinoma. The Suffix -oma, -omatos. The suffix -ium. Pathology. Anemia.

Exercises.

WORDS IN THE EXERCISES

APPENDIX

Additional Words for Study. Latin Numerals. Notes. Latin Phrases in English. Latin Abbreviations. Questions. Special Index of Stems.

Complete List of Exercise Words

INDEX OF PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, AND COMBINING FORMS

INDEX OF STEMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

From the Preface

In this second edition, the introductory material has been completely rewritten; explanatory material in the Lessons has been recast; the exercises have been expanded, and several new Latin and Greek words have been added to the vocabularies. Also, the format of the Notes in each Lesson has been changed in order to make them easier to use.

We wish to thank Professor Damian Fleming of the department of English of John Carroll University for reading the Introduction to this edition and for his helpful comments and criticism. We also thank Dr. Christopher Leslie of the Humanities and Social Sciences department of The Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, for his contributions and help. Dieter C. Gunkel of the U.C.L.A. program in Indo-European Studies has read the section on Indo-European, and we are grateful for his helpful criticism.

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