Europe >.<    Geographically, the border between Asia and Europe is the  Bosphorus, a strait of water that joins the Mediterranean Sea to  the Black Sea. This runs riâ¦ght through the city of Istanbul.  Therefore, both Istanbul and the whole nation of Turkey are both in  Asia and Europe.
Spir, or spiro, is Latin and is defined as to breathe, or is Greek and is defined as spiral. 1  An example of spir used as a prefix is in the word spirograph which means a chart regarding airflow. 2  An example of spir used as a prefix is in the word spirillum which means a bacteria with a twisted cell body.
Not only does the root spect mean âsee,â but its variant spic does as well. Imagine someone in a large crowd is wearing stilts and a three-foot tall yellow hatânow that would be con spic uous, or easy to âsee.â A de spic able person, or one who does things that shouldnât be âseen,â might shoot an arrow through that hat.