homo
same, common
Greek · homos (ὁμός)
Greek homos 'same'. Homo- words show sameness: homogeneous means of the same kind, a homonym is a word with the same sound or spelling as another, homology is sameness of structure. It is not Latin homo 'man'.
Memory trick
HOMO means SAME: homophones sound the SAME, homogeneous things are the SAME kind.
Words from this root
- homogeneous (homo + gene + ous) — of the same kind throughoutएकसमान
- homogenize (homo + gen + ize) — to make uniformएकसमान बनाना
- homogenization (homogenize + ation) — making the same throughoutसमरूपीकरण
- homonym (homo + nym) — word same in sound or spellingसमनाम शब्द
- homonymous (homo + nym + ous) — having the same name or soundसमनाम
- homonymic (homo + nym + ic) — of words with the same soundसमनाम शब्दों का
- homophone (homo + phone) — word same in soundसमध्वनि शब्द
- homophonous (homo + phon + ous) — sounding the sameसमध्वनि वाला
- homology (homo + logy) — likeness of origin or structureसमरूपता
- homologous (homo + log + ous) — similar in origin or structureसमजात
- homologate (homo + log + ate) — to approve or confirm officiallyआधिकारिक मंज़ूरी देना
- homocentric (homo + centr + ic) — having the same centreसमकेंद्रिक