Why do they call it an asteroid ......?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but
call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Answers:
Latin suffix -oides taken from Greek and meaning "having the likeness of" as in: asteroid means "like a star" and rhomboid means "like a lozenge, or rhombus". There are many examples of such words: anthropoid, alkaloid, factoid, humanoid, planetoid, trapezoid, and so forth.

Hemorrh come from the word Hemorrhage which means bleeding profusely.

Thank you for the interesting question.
why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway?
wacky language.
because they want to.
Because the word "duck" was already taken.
Why do women have menstrual cramps?
As for the asteroid, It is a greek word :)

Aster - Star
Asteroides - starlike



For haemorrhoids, it means "grapes of the a***"


ok, it doesn't but it should :) Again, in fact derived from Greek Haema (blood) and Rhoos (flowing)
It all depends on the size and texture of your rocks!
A cuboid is cube like and an asteroid is star like. An aster is also a flower that looks like a star.

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