I didn't know about hypocenter before too but it's neat how you can sometimes deduce the meaning of a word from its parts (because "hypo" means "under"/"below" in Greek, like in hypodermic, hypoglycaemia, etc).
(My school also offered Latin, but etymology seemed a much more direct/easier way to get the same basics. I just wish someone had taught me about demographics so I would have taken Spanish instead of German.)
No, not every language works this way, because not every language uses Latin and Greek root-words like this.
> not every language uses Latin and Greek root-words like this
I was responding to the text above where the person was amazed you can build/recognise a new word from parts. Idk who made the statement you're negating