by Dwane | Aug 28, 2014 | English, Greek, Vocabulary
Agriology: the study of wild, primitive tribes. From Greek άγριος (wild, living in the field). Άγριος derives from ἀγρός (field). The suffix of the word agriology derives from Greek λογός (word, the study of).
by Dwane | Aug 27, 2014 | Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Agronomy: the study of crops and the soil they love; the science of soil management. From Greek ἀγρός (field) and νόμος (law). Agronomy is literally, “the law of the field”.
by Dwane | Aug 26, 2014 | Education, English, Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
Acre: a plot of land equal to 4,840 square yards. In Old English, an æcer was simply a “tilled field”. Later, the word described the amount of land plowed by oxen in a single day. This is an old word. Variations show up in many ancient European languages. In Latin,...
