Can you name the language of origin (Greek or Latin) of the following words?

created by Handle1

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Click any empty English Word or Enter G or L to answer for that location
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Note: You should enter the language of origin of the following words' roots. Some of these words came into English through intermediary sources.

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English Word	Enter G or L	Root(s) Definition
Vulpine		Fox
Psychiatry		Spirit+Healing
Asteroid		Star+Resembling
Reside		Again+Sit
Morbid		Sick
Sentient		Feel
Infant		Not+Speak
Defend		Defend
Telephone		Distant+Sound
Flatulence		Blow
Suture		Seam
Podiatry		Foot+Healing
Zoo		Living Being
Ethics		Moral
Sequence		Follow
Cognitive		Know
Feminine		Woman
Bonus		Good
Architect		First+Builder
Audacious		Daring

English Word	Enter G or L	Root(s) Definition
Cycle		Wheel
Prepare		Set up
Monolith		One+Stone
Etymology		True Sense+Word
Thermal		Heat
Hippopotamus		Horse+River
Sinister		Left
Moron		Foolish
Laudable		Praise
Glucose		Sweet
Acerbic		Bitter
Polygamy		Many+Marriage
Irascible		Angry
Pterodactyl		Wing+Finger
Agoraphobia		Market Place+Fear
Somnambulate		Sleep+Walk
Translate		Across+Carried
Autograph		Self+Write
Ergonomics		Work+Distribution
Necropolis		Dead+City
Ergonomics	Dead+City
Infant	Dead+City
Podiatry	Dead+City
Somnambulate	Dead+City
Agoraphobia	Dead+City
Translate	Dead+City
Asteroid	Dead+City
Prepare	Dead+City
Etymology	Dead+City
Reside	Dead+City
Zoo	Dead+City
Laudable	Dead+City
Moron	Dead+City
Suture	Dead+City
Thermal	Dead+City
Irascible	Dead+City
Telephone	Dead+City
Defend	Dead+City
Psychiatry	Dead+City
Acerbic	Dead+City
Hippopotamus	Dead+City
Bonus	Dead+City
Necropolis	Dead+City
Sinister	Dead+City
Ethics	Dead+City
Vulpine	Dead+City
Autograph	Dead+City
Morbid	Dead+City
Glucose	Dead+City
Feminine	Dead+City
Architect	Dead+City
Audacious	Dead+City
Cycle	Dead+City
Flatulence	Dead+City
Pterodactyl	Dead+City
Sequence	Dead+City
Monolith	Dead+City
Sentient	Dead+City
Polygamy	Dead+City
Cognitive	Dead+City

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Greek or Latin? Quiz

by Handle1

Created Jun 21, 2011 in Language
Featured Jul 19, 2011
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	wrink1117:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 20:18 GMT	1 point
	i hated the SAT.

	KDawgNow:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 20:23 GMT	17 points
	Excellent quiz - a nice variety of words included.

	spelengwisird21:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT	-2 points
	At the end, I just kind of held down the L key.

	Quizmaster91:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 20:51 GMT	1 point
	I got the bonus ;)

	Speenatch:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 21:18 GMT	5 points
	Bonus? Wait a minute, the quiz is still partway through... ohhhhhh

	Harlingen:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 21:34 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. Decently hard, until I figured I should just focus on the latin words as they are more familiar to me. At a score of 20/40 with just latin words, all the others had to be greek.

	chikka2:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 21:49 GMT	6 points
	sweet quiz

	flipsqueaks:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 22:18 GMT	-2 points
	great quiz, new the greek better than the latin, but still got them all... eventually.

	glueyourfingers:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 22:38 GMT	22 points
	I was hoping "television" would show up somewhere.

	dlutz77539:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 22:48 GMT	14 points
	I'll give you a hint: if it has a "ph" or a "ps", it's almost certainly Greek.

	dancastro:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 23:09 GMT	3 points
	@glueyourfingers: of course "television" can't appear in this quiz, as it's half Greek (tele) and half Latin (vision). TV was given this hybrid name because a pure Greek word that meant "seeing things that are far away" existed already but was used for a different device: the telescope.

	chillysnow:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 23:24 GMT	23 points
	@dancastro: glueyourfingers is clearly making a joke...

	ChileNoseJam:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 23:34 GMT	1 point
	Both an excellent idea and very well executed. Since I studied both languages to GCSE, my teacher would have been ashamed of me if I hadn't scored somewhere close to full marks... fortunately I did.

	Hyperion:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 02:47 GMT	1 point
	how about a speed bonus!

	elcropsziuq:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 03:21 GMT	3 points
	Great execution and idea. Somewhere my High School Latin teacher is slowly turning in her grave for my poor performance... 4 years of Latin.

	Syzygy_314159:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 05:50 GMT	0 points
	36/40 first try. Not bad for never having taken Greek or Latin and being half asleep.

	samcash13593:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 06:31 GMT	2 points
	the way i did it: if it can be followed by phobia or philia then it's greek. I have never heard of necropolis, but i have heard of necrophilia ;). I didn't know telephone was from greek. i guess that means telescope, telegram etc. are as well.

	ham1003:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 11:22 GMT	3 points
	wow really good quiz

	defineexistence:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 18:01 GMT	1 point
	I love this quiz, as I've always enjoyed word roots and etymology, but this turned out to be trickier than I thought.

	JacketFan:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. Remembering amo, amas, amat didn't help, though.

	weirdmary91:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 10:24 GMT	1 point
	very nice!!! i studied latin and greek so maybe i found it simple but funny, helped to remember past knowledges XD

	DonEscamillo:	Jul 22nd, 2011 at 01:23 GMT	3 points
	Just wonderful to think so many of our words come from an advanced southern European civilisation from over two milleniums ago!

	ktappe:	Jul 24th, 2011 at 02:13 GMT	1 point
	I've no idea what Quiz and Speen mean by "bonus", but I think this was a fun quiz and a great idea.

	SpunkyBlah:	Aug 27th, 2011 at 05:26 GMT	1 point
	"cognitive" is both Greek and Latin. The word "know" came originally from the Greek root gno- (gamma nu omicron).

	Ossy:	Aug 30th, 2011 at 01:09 GMT	1 point
	Thermal is kind of tricky because while the root may originally come from Greek the Romans used "Thermae" to refer to (mostly) hot baths.

	Trueblood777:	Feb 29th, 2012 at 03:26 GMT	2 points
	28 out of 40...pretty good seeing as how I don't speak either language!

	milgita:	Apr 9th, 2012 at 00:53 GMT	0 points
	I hate it when there's a latin word that comes from greek (astrum)...it really kills me. :p And smart me...I see architect and think "oh! obviously comes from tegere!" um, no.