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    Figure 1:   A tongue that I quickly sketched, and then edited in photoshop. The Ancient-Greek 1st-and-2nd-declension adjective: πολύς, πολλή, πολύ , or, when transliterated: ‘polús, pollḗ, polú,’ means: ‘many,’ .  The Ancient-Greek 1 st -declension feminine noun: ἡ γλῶσσα, τῆϛ γλώσσης, or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭssa, tē̃s glṓssēs’ means: ‘the tongue’ .  In the Attic dialect, the spelling of: ‘hē glȭssa,’ is: ἡ γλῶττα, τῆϛ γλώττης , or, when transliterated: ‘hē glȭtta, tē̃s glṓttēs’ . We derive our English noun: ‘polyglot,’ , which is a speaker of many languages, from our combining of the Ancient-Greek adjective: ‘polús,’ which means: ‘many’ , with the Ancient-Greek noun: ‘glȭtta’ , which means: ‘tongue’ .

Figure 1:  An ectopic pregnancy. In medicine, the pathological term, 'ectopia,' is a noun that denotes an organ's or other body part's being in the wrong place. 'Ectopic' is the adjectival form of 'ectopia.' An ectopic pregnancy, for instance, occurs whenever the embryo implants itself outside of the womb. ἐκ or 'ek' is an Ancient-Greek preposition that means, 'outside of.' ὁ τόπος or 'ho tópos' is an Ancient-Greek noun that means 'place,' 'location.'