The Two Babylons root "*aus-", meaning "dawn," potentially by way of . "Ishtar" is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate." Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Roman Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar". He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.
English words of Greek origin a prefix in Greek. Many Greek affixes such as "anti-" and "-ic" have become productive in English, combining with arbitrary English words: "antichoice", "Fascistic". Some portmanteau words in English have led to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek, "e.g." "-athon" or "-a-thon" ("walkathon", from "walk" and "(mar)athon") and "-nomics" ("Reaganomics", from "Reagan" and "(eco)nomics"). Some Greek words were borrowed through Arabic and then Romance. Many are learned: "alchemy" ("al-" + χημεία or χημία), "elixir" ("al-" + ξήριον), "alembic" ("al-" + ἄμβιξ); but others are popular: "botargo" (ᾠοτάριχον), "tajine" (τάγηνον), and possibly "quintal" (κεντηνάριον <