The theory behind teaching Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, and bases, which some teachers are doing with children as young as first grade, is that it helps build vocabulary more quickly than ...

Hybrid words (also called hybridisms) combine prefixes and suffixes from multiple languages to create new words. The most common type of English hybrid words combines Latin and Greek prefixes and ...

It’s especially hard because the names sound so foreign—unless you happen to be well versed in ancient Greek and Latin ... ensis” is a Latin suffix that means originating in.

We both recently learned that Princeton’s classics department had ceased requiring its students to study Latin and Greek, and we reacted in predictable horror. A classics department without ...

For anyone brought up on Greek and Latin, there is scarcely a moment of doubt as to which suffix applies. But it isn’t necessary to know classical languages to understand the distinction.