The West Indies, more commonly referred to as the Caribbean, consists of three major island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles include some of the most well-known individual islands, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English Â© 2017. -chron-, root. -chron- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning time.'' This meaning is found in such words as: anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronology, synchronize.
#18 log â word, study. Quick Summary. The Greek root word log means âword,â and its variant suffix -logy means âstudy (of).â Some common English words that use this root include biology, mythology, catalog, and prologue. Biology, of course, is the âstudyâ of life, whereas a prologue constitutes the âwordsâ spoken to introduce a poem or novel.