Lesson 7: Greek Noun-Forming Suffixes I

Question 1

-ter

Answer 1

means of, place for (e.g. ureter)

Question 2

-ist, -ast

Answer 2

one who (e.g. antagonist)

Question 3

-te, -t

Answer 3

one who, that which (-tes) (e.g. athlete)

Question 4

-ician

Answer 4

specialist in, practitioner of (e.g. dietician)

Question 5

ACTIN-

Answer 5

ray (e.g. actinic)

Question 6

ARGYR-

Answer 6

silver (e.g. argyria)

Question 7

BA-

Answer 7

to step, to go, to walk (e.g. basis)

Question 8

BROM-

Answer 8

stench, bromine (e.g. brominism)

Question 9

CHOL(E)-

Answer 9

bile, gall (e.g. choleric)

Question 10

CLAS-

Answer 10

to break (e.g. arthroclasia)

Question 11

CRANI-

Answer 11

cranium (e.g. amphicrania)

Question 12

CRI-

Answer 12

to separate, to distingush (e.g. critic)

Question 13

CRIN-

Answer 13

to secrete (e.g. criterion)

Question 14

EURY(S)-

Answer 14

wide (e.g. eurysome)

Question 15

HEM-, HEMAT-, (HAEM-, HEAMAT-)

Answer 15

blood (e.g. haematobic)

Question 16

HIDRO(S)-

Answer 16

sweat (e.g. synhidrosis)

Question 17

LITH-, -LITE

Answer 17

stone (e.g. cryolite)

Question 18

MYI-

Answer 18

fly (e.g. myiasis)

Question 19

OP-, OPT-

Answer 19

eye, to see (e.g. myopia)

Question 20

PROSOP-

Answer 20

face

Question 21

ORTH-

Answer 21

straight, correct (e.g. orthoptic)

Question 22

PHA-, PHAN-

Answer 22

to appear, to show (e.g. metaphase)

Question 23

RHE-, -RRH

Answer 23

to flow, current (e.g. rheophore)

Question 24

SCOP-

Answer 24

to view (e.g. endoscope)

Question 25

STA-

Answer 25

to stand, to stop, to fix, to regulate (e.g. ananastasia)

Question 26

STYL-

Answer 26

pillar (e.g. styloid)