With students gone for the day, sixth grade teachers Joy Ford and Ryan Rusk sat in a classroom discussing the Latin root temp. After determining that “contemporary” and “temporary” share the root, ...

Root word is the part of a word that carries a meaning. Root words are from different languages (Greek/Latin) and they help us to figure out the meanings of words you’ve never seen before. The Latin ...

Diseases get their names from a variety of sources — from Latin or Greek root words, from place names, from the clinician who discovered them, or a well-known patient who had them. But we throw ...