Our word bulb comes from a Greek root.

bulb这个词来自希腊语的一个词根。

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Then as now medical words often had Latin roots but in this case the Latin root reaches further back to Greek.

通常每个医药词汇都有其拉丁词根，但是这个单词的词根要追溯到年代更久远的的希腊。

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That Greek nemein is the root of our word nemisis which itself comes from the name of a Greek goddess whose job it was to dole out divine retribution.

nemein是nemesis（报应）的词根，后者来自一位古希腊女神的名字，她的职责是分配上天的惩罚。

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The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

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Umpteen words combine a Latin root with the Greek ending -ist.

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