Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Here is an example:
The Ancient Greek word
hippos means horse.
And potamus means river.
Hippopotamus literally
means river horse.
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Malaria
n. Infectious disease characterized
by chills and fever caused by the
bite of an infected mosquito.
This word comes from the mediaeval
Italian mal (=bad)
and aria (=air)
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What do you have in common
with Julius Caesar?
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Let’s think about this for a minute.
Have you ever been -
• A dictator of a great empire?
• A Roman general?
• A close friend of Cleopatra?
• Captured by pirates and held for
ransom?
to put or to place.