Greek word parts 2-25

1. Greek Word Parts
List #25
5th Grade

2. Greek Word Parts
• Many words are formed from the Greek
word parts.
• tele- meaning ‘’over a long distance’’
• photo-meaning ‘’light’’
• meter- meaning ‘’measure’’
• graph- meaning ‘’write’’

3. telephone
• a system that uses wires and radio signals to
send sounds (such as people's voices) over
long distances

4. graphic
• pictures or images on the screen of a
computer, television, etc.

5. thermometer
• an instrument used for measuring
temperature

6. photographer
• a person who takes photographs especially as
a job

7. centimeter
• a unit of length equal to 1⁄100 meter

8. paragraph
• a part of a piece of writing that usually deals
with one subject, that begins on a new line,
and that is made up of one or more sentences

9. telescope
• a device shaped like a long tube that you look
through in order to see things that are far
away

10. diameter
• the distance through the center of something
from one side to the other

11. photocopy
• a paper copy of a document, picture, etc., that
is made with a special machine (called a
copier or photocopier)

12. speedometer
• an instrument in a car, truck, etc., that
indicates how fast the vehicle is going

13. telegraph
• an old-fashioned system of sending messages
over long distances by using wires and
electrical signals

14. millimeter
• a length equal to 1/1000 meter

15. autograph
• the signature of a famous person

16. television
• an electronic system of sending images and
sounds by a wire or through space

17. barometer
• an instrument that is used to measure air
pressure and predict changes in the weather

18. telecommute
• to work at home by using a computer
connection to a company's main office

19. pedometer
• an instrument usually in watch form that
records the distance a person covers on foot
by responding to the body motion at each
step

20. phonograph
• an instrument for reproducing sounds by
means of the vibration of a stylus or needle
following a spiral groove on a revolving disc or
cylinder

21. kilometer
• a unit of length equal to 1,000 meters

22. telephoto
• being a camera lens system designed to give a
large image of a distant object;

23. telecommunication
• communication at a distance

24. autobiography
• a biography written by the person it is about

25. calligraphy
• the art of making beautiful handwriting

26. odometer
• a device in a car, truck, etc., that measures
the distance that the vehicle has traveled

27. photosynthesis
• the process by which a green plant turns
water and carbon dioxide into food when the
plant is exposed to light