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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: Hieroglyph Story .

Word Unit: Hieronymus (a father of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin known as the Vulgate).

Word Unit: hilar- (Greek > Latin: cheerful, gay, joyful, good spirits).

Word Unit: hippo-, hipp- (Greek: horse).

Related horse-word units: caval-; equ-, equi-.


Word Unit: hirco-, hirc- + (Latin: goat).

Related goat-word units: aego-; capri-; tragico-.


Word Unit: hirsute (Latin: hair, shaggy, bristly, rough).

Word Unit: hirudin-, hirudi-, hirud- (Latin: leech, leeches).

Word Unit: histio- + (Greek: web, cloth, tissue).

Word Unit: histo-, hist-, histi- + (Greek: tissue [web]; beam or warp of a loom; hence, that which is woven; a web or tissue; used in the sense of pertaining to [body] tissue).

Word Unit: histor-, histori- + (Greek > Latin: historical narrative; past events, past knowledge).

Word Unit: hoax (hoodwink, deceive, cheat; believed to be from hocus pocus which is probably from a pseudo Latin phrase: hax pax max Deus adimax, that was used by traveling conjurers to impress their audiences).

Word Unit: hodo-, hod-, od- + (Greek: way, a going, a traveling; road, path).

Word Unit: holo-, hol- (Greek: whole, entire, complete).

Word Unit: homalo-, homal- (Greek: even, level, smooth; used in the sense of "flat" or "plane").

Word Unit: homeo-, homoeo-, homio-, [homoio-, British spelling] + (Greek: same, like, resembling, sharing in common, similar, equal).

Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer-; syn-; tauto-.


Word Unit: homil-, homilo- + (Greek: sermon; meeting, assembly).

Word Unit: homo-, hom- + (Greek: same, equal, like, similar, common; one and the same).

Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homeo-; iso-; pari-; peer-; syn-; tauto-.


Word Unit: homo-, hom-, hum- (Latin: human beings, mankind, man).

Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
andro-; anthropo-; vir-.


Word Unit: Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones (confusion that sometimes exists because of spelling and sounds of words).


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