English Words from Latin and Greek Elements

Twenty plus years ago I took a college class, Greek and Latin Elements in English. I loved the class, kept my class notes and notebook, but the book vanished when I went overseas. I was sad for a long time until I found it on Amazon Prime. I love it! As far as I can tell, it's accurate. I'm not a scholar, but I love knowing more about our language and passing on tidbits to help my children with vocabulary.

Not what I thought it was, this book is about English words that have changed or came from other origins... not a strictly translation book... more of a work book in a sence. I was looking for a quick reference book for my nursing classes. This could help but not in the way or time saving way I was looking for.

I'm only one chapter in and I already love the book. I know it's meant to teach vocabulary, but I love the history I learned at the start of the book a lot. It is already worth the purchase

I find this book excellent for my grandchildren who is now being educated in the home. I had something similar to this back in Jr. high school. I am glad that I found this book.

First, do note that it is most definitely a textbook. If you just want a book to help you understand the English language, I would read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue.I had to read this for a course on Latin and Greek roots, and found this book very easy to follow despite not being very familiar with the subject matter. I did feel a few things could have used better explaining (it doesn't explain "doublets" well at all, and there were parts that were quite repetitive), and I think the usefulness of this book really comes down to how the instructor uses it, as well as the workbook. But overall, it was an engaging read, one that gave me a new area of interest beyond my credit requirement.

I like the content, it has more than a lot of other Latin books, but it is broken up through the book. I wish there was a summary section with all the root words and prefixes and suffixes.

I originally checked this book out from my library to use as a textbook for my undergraduate etymology class, but I loved it so much that I had to have my own copy! Each chapter gives you a set of base/root words from Latin and Greek so you can learn them in chunks. However, I will admit that the chapter and index organization is not the clearest for the reader, but it's not half bad once you get used to it.

I did buy this for a class, and doing the required work was rather time consuming, however, it was also very rewarding and useful. Never again will you wonder when a medical professional throws out some term. Despite knowledge of Latin and/or Greek, this book just drills you on breaking words down when applied to English, as well as some light discussion of semantic shift over time and some other basic linguistic principles, which are sufficient for the layman or classics student, while short enough to not be tedious to someone in linguistics. The examples used are a bit antiquated in the chapter introductions, but as the rest of the lessons deal with antiquated suffixes, prefixes and roots/bases of words, it is rather timeless. I still frequently carry it with me to brush up on what I learned.

for the purpose of building vocabulary, I bought this. Explanation of etymology is very interesting to me. As my knowing etymology, each word becomes more familiar to me.