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Study these Latin and Greek words that appear above the fireplace, so you will have some interesting ones to point out to your students.

Find some animals field study words and also some words you recognize from everyday life.

Have your students combine words to name an imaginary animal, then have them tell you what adaptations that animal would have.



Latin

ab - from
adaptare - to fit
aequus - equal
agricola - farmer
alias - at another time
alibi - in another time
alius - another
apis - bee
aquila - eagle
aridus - dry
articulus - joint
asellus - donkey
auris - ear
auxilium - help
avis - bird
bi - two
bibliotheca - library
bini - two together
bonus - good
brachium - arm
caeruleus - blue
calcis - limestone
cameleopardalis - giraffe
cancer - crab
canis - dog
capri - goat
carceris - jail
carnis - flesh
cella - a chamber
cerebrum - brain
chorda - cord
cinis - ash
circa, circum - about
clamor - alarm
cornus - antler
corpus - body
cortex - bark
cretaceous - chalky
cubitum - elbow
culina - kitchen
cyaneus - dark blue
decidere - to fall off
dentis - fang
detritus - worn down
dies - day
diurnus - of the day
donare - give
dormire - to sleep
dorsum - back
electus - choice
equus - horse
feles - cat
filix - fern
folium - leaf
fossio - digging
geminus - of pairs
genus - lineage
glacies - ice
globus - a ball
habitare - to live in
herba - grass
herbaria - botany
hortorum caltus - gardening
hydro - water

ignis - fire
imitare - copy
infantis - baby
lardus - bacon
larva - goblin
lateris - side
lepus - hare
liber - book
linum - flax
magnus - large
malas - bad
mamma - breast
manus - hand
marginis - border
medium - average
mutare - alter, change
nocturnes - of night
oculus - eye
omnis - all
orientis - east
ovum - egg
patella - kneecap
patria - birthplace
pedis - foot
pellis - coat
pepticus - digestive
pilus - hair
piscis - fish
plumeus - downy
polus - end of axis
praedari - to prey upon
praedictionis - forecast
prehendere - to grasp, seize
primus - basic
pullus - chicken
pulmonis - jellyfish
pupilla - eyeball
radius - a spoke of a wheel
rana - frog
refrigerare - cool
respirare - to breathe
retro - backward
rostratus - baked
rumen - cud
ruptura - break
sagittarius - archer
scribere - to write
sempervivus - evergreen
similis - alike
simius - ape
species - kind, sort
spina - backbone
taurus - bull
terminus - end
terra - earth
textile - fabric
tranquillus - calm
trans - across
ungula - claw
urbanus - city
ursus - bear
vacuum - empty
venter - belly
vita - life
vividus - green
volatilis - flying
voro - to devour
vulpes - fox

Greek

aer - air
allos - other
amoibe - change
an - without
ante - before, toward
anthropos - human
anti - against
arthron - joint
atmos - vapor
auto - self
bios - life
chiton - a tunic
chloros - green
derma - skin
endon - within
epi - on or over
ex - out of
gaster - stomach
haima - blood
heteros - other
homos - same
karas - horn
logos - a discourse
megas - great, large
metamorphoun - to transform
mono - one
noto - back
oikos - home
onta - things that exist
optikos - of the eye
palaios - old
philios - friendly
phobos - fearing
photos - light
phyllon - leaf
pod - foot
sphaira - globe
stasis - standing
stereo - solid, shape
syn - together
therme - heat
tithenai - to place
trophos - feeder
zoe - life



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