| Could take a page out of the biologist's book. "what's this thing?" Transcriptase - enzyme (-ase) which transcribes - DNA to RNA. "What about this" Reverse transcriptase - does the reverse of transcriptase. Angiotensin-converting enzyme - does exactly what it says on the tin. You can lex it even further: - Angio - heart (from ango, vessel) - Tens - from hypertension, vis tendo, tendere, to stretch. - (-in) - suffix associated with polypeptides: - Convertere - turn around, from: - Con - with - Vert - turn - En - inside - Zyme - from zume/zymē - leavened, loosely, biological thing which causes leavening It just makes so much sense! Lexemes are so cool. Like digging into linguistic source code. |