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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.

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