Lesson 11: Greek Diminutive Suffixes

Question 1

-ium, ion

Answer 1

little (often difficult to distinguish from -ium presented in lesoon 9) (e.g. bacterium)

Question 2

-idium, idion-

Answer 2

little (e.g. conidium)

Question 3

-arium, -arion

Answer 3

little (e.g. conarium)

Question 4

-isk, -iscus

Answer 4

little (e.g. meniscus)

Question 5

ASC-

Answer 5

bag (e.g. ascus)

Question 6

BRANCHI-

Answer 6

gills (e.g. branchiocardiac)

Question 7

CARP-

Answer 7

fruit (e.g. carpel)

Question 8

-CELE

Answer 8

hernia, swelling (e.g. hydrocele)

Question 9

COLP-

Answer 9

vagina (e.g. aerocolpos)

Question 10

GEN(E)-, GON-

Answer 10

to be produced, to produce GON- = seed (e.g. coccogone)

Question 11

HELI-

Answer 11

sun (e.g. heliolithic)

Question 12

MER-

Answer 12

part (e.g. adenomere)

Question 13

NYCT-

Answer 13

night (e.g. nyctitropism)

Question 14

ONYM-

Answer 14

name (e.g. metonym)

Question 15

OO-

Answer 15

egg (e.g. oocyte)

Question 16

PACHY-

Answer 16

thick (e.g. pachyacria)

Question 17

PEN-

Answer 17

deficiency, want (e.g. glycopenia)

Question 18

PHLEB-

Answer 18

vein (e.g. phlebismus)

Question 19

PHTHI-

Answer 19

to waste away (e.g. phthisiogyne)

Question 20

PHYC-

Answer 20

seaweem algae (e.g. chlorophyceae)

Question 21

PTO-

Answer 21

to fall (e.g. proptosis)

Question 22

SALPING-

Answer 22

tube specifically ‘eustachian or fallopian tube’ (e.g. salpingocyesis)

Question 23

SAUR-

Answer 23

lizard (e.g. branchiosaur)

Question 24

XANTH-

Answer 24

yellow (e.g. xanthopsia)