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Igor Toscano 🏴 @toscanoigor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Screen cap from Tumblr @o-craven-canto: "Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped" (Greek roots are written in blue, Latin ones in red, so I'll highlight the Latin parts with <>)

catastrophe -> <contraverse>
cephalopod -> <capitoped>
chlorophyll -> <viridofolia>
democracy -> <populimpery>
<homicide> -> anthropoctony
homo<sexual> -> <equi>gamic
kilometer -> <millimensure>
<interregnum> -> mesarchy
<magnanimous> -> megapsychic
<manuscript> -> chirography
<motor>cycle -> ergato<rote>
microscope -> <parvovisor>
oxygen -> <acidofex>
poly<amory> -> <multi>erasty
tele<vision> -> <remoto>scope
<universe> -> monostrophe

#languages #etymology #ruminations

ben lowery @blowery.org · 04/08/2026

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