Greek Roots 6 - Johnston County
1. arch - first, chief, ruler
a. archetype - a universal symbol that all people recognize across cultures
b. monarch - a ruler who rules alone (has all the power)
c. oligarchy - rule by a small group of people (2 - 3)
d. gynarchy - rule by a woman
e. archbishop - the top bishop in a religious system
f. architect - the first person who designs a plan for building a building or object
g. hierarchy - a system ordering people by rank (like the military)
2. cracy, crat - govern, government
a. technocracy - a government by technicians
b. democracy - rule by all people
c. autocracy - rule by one’s self
3. demo - people
a. democracy - rule by all people
b. demographics - info about a group of people
c. pandemic - universal, general, an epidemic over a large region
d. demagogue - person who tries to stir up people by appealing to emotions, prejudices in order to become a leader (selfish ends) such as Hitler
e. endemic - prevalent in or restricted to a particular nation, region, group
4. gam - marriage
a. monogamy - the act of being married to one person
b. monogamous - being faithful to one spouse
c. misogamy - hatred of marriage
d. bigamy - having 2 or more husbands or wives at the same time
e. polygamy - having more than 1 spouse
f. heterogamous - being married to someone of the different sex
5. gyn - woman
1 gynocracy - rule by women
2 gynecologist - a doctor who helps women
1 gynarchy - government by a woman or women
a. philogyny - love or fondness for women
b. misogynist - a person who hates women (especially a man)
6. pan - all
a. panoramic - a view all around or a wide view
b. panacea - a supposed cure for all diseases, a cure-all
c. pantheism - belief that God is everything and in everything, worship of all gods.
d. pandemic - universal, general, an epidemic over a large region
7. phil - love
a. philanthropist - one who does nice things for mankind (ex. Rockefellers)
b. bibliophile - a lover of books
c. philosophy - a love of wisdom, the study of
d. Francophile - a person who is very fond of France and all about it
e. Anglophile - a person who is very fond of England and all about it
f. hemophilia - a hereditary condition in which the blood fails to clot quickly enough.
g. philately - the collection and study of postage stamps, postmarks, stamped envelopes, as a hobby.
8. biblio - book
a. bibliopegy - art of bookbinding
b. bibliotheca - library or book collection, a bookseller’s catalogue
c. bibliography - list at the end of work that names the books and sources used
d. bible - a sacred book
e. bibliophile - a lover of books
9. miso - hatred, bad, wrong
a. misogynist - a person (especially a man) who hates women.
b. misadventure - unlucky accident, a bad adventure, bad luck.
c. misplaced - put in the wrong place
10. pod - foot
a. podiatrist - one who cures feet problems
b. antipodes - any 2 places directly opposite each other on the earth.
11. soph - wise, wisdom
a. sophomore - literally, a wise fool, a second year student in a high school
b. sophistry - unsound or misleading but clever, possible reasoning (argument)
c. pansophism - to pretend to have a worldly wisdom
12. type - model, print
a. prototype - original pattern or model, the first
b. typify - be typical, exemplify, be life
c. archetype - the original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.
d. typewriter - a machine that creates print (type)
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