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A List of prefixes, suffixes and roots
Common Prefixes
Prefix
a-, anab-, a-, absad-, ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-,
ap-, ar-, as-, atambiamphianteantiautobicenticircumcon-, com-, co-, col-, corcontradedec-, decadidiadisex-, e-, efforehemiheptahexahyperin-, il-, ir-, iminterintra-, introkilomillimismonomultinonnonaob, oc-, ofoctomni-
Example
amoral, anaerobic
abhor, abscond
adhere, approach
Meaning
not, without, lacking
away from
toward
ambivalence
amphitheater
antebellum
antibiotic
automatic
bisect
century
circumstance
correlate, cooperate, collect
contradiction
descend
both
on both sides, around
before
against
self
two
hundred
around
with, in association,
together
against
away from, out of,
separation
ten
two, twice, double
through, between, across
not
out of, from
before, front, superior
half
seven
six
over, above
not; also means “in” and is
used as an intensifier
between, among
within
thousand
thousand
wrong, not
one
many
decade
dicotyledon
diameter
dissatisfied
evict
foreground
hemisphere
heptagon
hexagon
hypersensitive
invisible, illegal, irregular
interact
introvert
kilocycle
millennium
misspell
monopoly
multitude
nonsense
nonagon
obstruct
octagon
omnipotent
not
nine
toward, to, on, over, against
eight
panperproquadrquinreretrosesemiseptsexsub-, suc, suf-, sur-,sug-,
sussupersyn-, symteletetratrans-, tratriultraununi-
pantheist
perceive
promote
quadrupled
quintuplet
reorganize
retrograde
select
semiannual
septuplet
sextant
supplant
all
all
through, thoroughly, very
in favor of, advancing
four
five
backward, again
backward
apart
half
seven
six
supersede
synchronize
telegraph
tetrameter
traverse
triple
ultramodern
unnatural
unilateral
under, below, slightly
Suffix
-able, -ible
-acy
-age
Example
durable, visible
piracy, privacy
breakage, orphanage
-al
rental, abdominal
-ance, -ence
-ant
-arium, -orium
-ary
insurance, competence
reliant, servant
aquarium, auditorium
dictionary, elementary
Meaning
able
quality, state, office
pertaining to; also a nounforming suffix
adjective- or noun-forming
suffix
adjective- or noun-forming
suffix
adjective- or noun-forming
suffix
-ate
-ation, -ition
activate, animate
creation, condition
-cle, -icle
-esque
corpuscle, denticle
picturesque
above, beyond
with, together
distance
four
across, beyond, through
three
beyond, farther
not
one
Common Suffixes
place, instrument
pertaining to, connected
with
verb-forming suffix
combination of -ate and ion used for forming nouns
-ferous
-ful
-fy, -ify
-hood
-ic
coniferous
colorful
fortify, magnify
childhood, statehood
democratic, phonic
-ism
conservatism,Marxism
appendicitis
-itis
acidity, familiarity
-ity
creative, suggestive
-ive
-ize
-ment
memorize, modernize
statement
testimony, parsimony
-mony
-oid
-or
-ose, -ous
-osis
ellipsoid
conqueror, generator
verbose, porous
hypnosis
solitude, altitude
-tude
small, diminutive
style, manner, distinctive
character
bearing
full of
to make, to cause to be
station, condition, nature
suffix forming adjectives
from nouns
used to form nouns
denoting action, practice,
principles, doctrines
inflammation, abnormal
state or condition
used to form nouns
expressing state or
condition
suffix of adjectives
expressing tendency,
disposition, function
verb suffix
denotes an action, resulting
state, product
result or condition, denotes
action or condition
resembling, like
one who does something
full of
denotes action, state,
process, or condition
indicates nouns formed
from adjectives
Common Roots
Root
ag, act
anthrop
aqua
aud
auto
Example
activate, enact, agile,
agency
anthropology,
anthropomorphic,
misanthrope
aquifer, aquatic, aqueous
audible, audition, auditorium, audience
automatic, automation,
automaton
Meaning
to do
man
water
to hear
self
bene
cap, capt, chap
ceed, cede, cess
chrom
chron
cogn
corp
cred
dent, dont
automaton
benefit, benevolent, benign
decapitate, capture, captain,
chapter
proceed, precedent, cease
chromatic, chromosome
synchronize, chronology,
chronic
cognition, recognize,
cognitive
corporate, corpulent,
corporation
credit, incredible, credulous
orthodontist, dental,
dentifrice
derm
dic, dict
don, donat
dox
duc
fac, fic, fy
fer
fie
fluc, flux
graph
gress
ject
loc
loq, loc
mal
manu
good
head
to go, yield
color
time
to know
body
to believe
tooth
skin
dermatology, epidermis,
dermatitis
dictionary, dictate, predict,
indict
donate, donor, condone,
pardon
doxology, paradox
duct, reduce, produce,
conduct
manufacture, factory, verify
transfer, ferry, confer, defer,
suffer
confident, infidel, confide
to say
to give
belief
to lead in
to make, do
to bear
faith
to flow
to write
fluctuate, fluxion
graphite, telegraph,
phonograph
to step
transgress, congress, egress
deject, rejection, conjecture, to throw
trajectory
place
local, locate, location,
dislocate
to speak
eloquent, elocution,
interlocutor
bad
malevolent, malapropism,
malefactor
hand
manufacture, manuscript,
manacle, manual
miso, misa
mit, mis
bad
misanthrope, misogamy
emit, permit, dismissal,
omit, missile
morph
to send
shape
morphology, endomorph,
metamorphosis
mort
mov, mot, mob
neb
omni
path
ped
dead
mortician, mortuary,
mortify
motivate, motion, motile,
remove
nebulous, nebula
omnipresent, omniscient,
omnipotent
sympathy, empathic,
pathetic
phil
pod
scrib, script
to move
cloudy
all
suffering, disease,feeling
foot
love
pedestrian, pedometer,
pedicure
philosophy, philanthropy,
philharmonic
podiatrist, pseudopod
transcript, prescribe,
description
foot
to write