Cleveland ENVP U6250.001 POVERTY, INEQUALITY & ENVIRONMENT. Population Distribution and Poverty. To better understand the relationship between poverty, inequality and the environment, letâs. take a look at the geography of population density.
The Latin root word dict and its variant dic both mean âsay.â Some common English vocabulary words that come from this word root include dict ionary, contra dict, and de dic ate.
The word is Latin, but its elements were borrowed from Greek. Dis- means bad, unfavorable, negative (eg. -aster comes from the greek word Î¬ÏÏÏÎ¿Î½ (transliterated astron, pronounced ass-tron) which means a star. Literally the word means unfavorable star influence, and it gradually evolved to its modern meaning.