Greek and Latin Root Words
a-, anab-able
ac-aceous
acou-, acousadadenadipaer-, aeroagrialbalg-, -algia
allelo
altoambiamebamniamphi-, amphoamylananaandroanemoangang
animannu-ant
anteanteranthantiantrhopo-ap-, -aphapiapo-, apapsiaquarchaeoarchegarteriarthrasc
-ase
aster-, astr-ate
antheraqua-ation
atmoaudiaurautoavi
bac
bacter-, bactrbarbbarobasidi
not, without
away from, out from
capable of
to, toward
of or pertaining to
hear
to, toward
gland
fat
air
field, soil
white
pain
one another, parallel
high
both
change, alternation
fetal membrane
both, double
starch
without, not
up, back, again
man, masculine
wind
choke, feel pain
vessel, case, duct
life, breath
year
agent or instrument
of
before, ahead of
time
front
flower
against, opposite
man, human
touch
apex, top
away from
juncture
water
primitive, ancient
artery
joint, articulation
bag, sack
forms names of
enzymes
star
verb form – the act
of
fatty deposit
water
noun form – the act
of
vapor
hear
ear
self
bird
rod, stick, club
bacterium
beard
weight
small pedestal
bathbenebenthbi- (Latin)
bi-, bio- (Greek)
bin
-blastbrachibrachybradybranchibrevbronchcac-.
calorcambicanccapillcapitcaps
carb
carcincardicarncarotcarpcarpalcata-
depth, height
well, good
the depths of ocean
two twice
life, living
two
sprout, germ, bud
arm
short
slow
fin
short
windpipe
bad
heat
change, exchange
cancer
hair
head
box, chest
carbon
cancer
heart
meat, flesh
carrott
fruit
wrist
breakdown,
downward
caudtail
-cellchamber, small
room
cen-, cenenow, recent
centepierce
centihundredth
centrcenter
cephalhead
cerathorn
cerebrbrain
cervicneck
-cess
stop
chelclaw
chemdealing with
chemicals
chirhand
chlorgreen
chondr
cartilage; a grain,
corn
chord
a string
chrom-, -chrome color
chrontime
-chymjuice
-cid-, -ciscut, kill, fall
cili
eyelash, short hair
circa-, circumaround, about
cirruhairlike curls
clad
a branch
co-, conwith, together
coccseed, berry
coelhollow
collglue
comwith, together
conwith, together
conicone
contraagainst
corpcort-, corticcosmocotylcountercranicresc-, cretcryptcrycrys-cul-, -cule
cumulcuticyan-cycle, cycl-cystcyt-, -cyte, -cyto
dactyldedecadecidele
deliquescdemidendrdentdermdi-, dipl- (Latin)
di-, dia- (Greek)
dia- (Latin)
digitdin
disdom
domindomin
dormdors-drom
du-, duoduplduc, duct
dynamdyse-, execechineco-,
-ect, ecto-elle
-emia
en-, endo-, ent-en
enencephalendoenterentom-eous
epi-er
-errerythro-escent
body
outer layer
world, order, form
cup
against
skull
begin to grow
hidden, covered
ice, frozen (L)
golden (G)
small, diminutive
heaped
skin
blue
ring, circle
sac, pouch, bladder
cell, hollow container
finger
away from, down
ten
tenth
destroy
become fluid
half
tree
tooth
skin
two, double
through, across,
apart
day
finger, toe
terrible
apart, out
a houise
lord
master
sleep
back
run, race
two
double
to lead
power
bad, abnormal
away from, out of
out of, away from
spiny, prickly
house
outside of
small
blood
in, into, within
made of
in, into
brain
in, into, within
intestine, gut
insects
nature of, like
upon, above, over
one connected with
wander, go astray
red
becoming
eso-ette
eueuryexextrafacil
-ferferment
ferrofertilfiliafibr-fid, fissflagell-flect, -flex
florflu-,fluct-,flux
foli-formfractfruct
fund-fy
-gamgametgastrgeo-gen, -gine, geno
-genegenergerm-gest-glen-globglossgluc-, glycglutgnath
-gon
-grad-gram, graph
gravgreg-grossguan-, guano
gymnogyngyr-hal-, -hale
halohaplhectorhelic-helminthhemhemihepar-, hepatherb-here
heredhes-, hesitheterohexhibernhidrhipphistholo-
inward, within, inner
small
well, good, true
widen
out of, away from
beyond, outside
easy
bear, carry, produce
yeast
iron
fruitful
son, daughter
fiber, thread
split, divided into
a whip
bend
flower
flow
leaf
shape
break
fruit
bottom, floor
to make, do
marriage
husband, wife
stomach
land, earth
producer, former
origin, birth
beget, race
sprout, bud
carry, produce, bear
eyeball
ball, round, sphere
tongue
sweet, sugar
buttock
jaw
angle, corner
step
record, writing
heavy
herd
thick
dung
naked, bare
female
ring, circle, spiral
breathe, breath
salt
simple
hundred
spiral
worm
blood
half
liver
grass, plants
to stick
heir, inherit
to stick
different, other
six
winter
sweat
horse
tissue
entire, whole
homo- (Latin)
man, human
homo-, homeo- (Greek) same, alike
hortgarden
hybrid
mongrel, mixture
hydrwater
hygrmoist, wet
hyperabove, beyond over
hyphweaving, web
hypnosleep
hypobelow, under, less
hysterwomb, uterus
-iae
person afflicted with
disease
-iasis
disease, abnormal
condition
-ic
(adjective former),
having to do with
ichthy
fish
ignfire
in-, il-, im-, ir- (Latin) not, without
in-, il-, im-, ir- (Greek) to, toward, into
invery, thoroughly
-ine
of or pertaining to
infrabelow, beneath
integwhole, complete
interwithin, inside
intrabetween
ioto go
-ion
going or entering;
small
-ism
a state or condition,
belief in
isoequal, same
-ist
person who deals
with
-ite
one connected with
-itis
inflammation,
disease
-ium
refers to a part of the
body
jug
to join
-karycell nucleus
keltumor, swelling
kerathorn
kilothousand
kinemove
lachrytear
lactmilk
lamellsmall place
latbroad, wide
laterside
latus
borne, carried
leiosmooth
-less
without
leuc-, leukwhite, bright, light
lignwood
limnlake
linline
lingutongue
lipfat
litseashore
lith-, -lite
stone, petrifying
locplace
-logword, speech
-logist
one who studies
-logy
study of
-lumen
light
luminlight
-lys, -lyt, -lyst
macrmagn-, magnimalacmallemamm
mar
margmastmedmegmeiomela-, melanmens-mer
mesmet-, metametab
-meter, -metry
micromillimis-mis, -mit
mitomolemonomortmotmorphmultimutmymycmycelmyriadmollnasnecrnematneoneprho-nerneurneutrnoct-node
-nom-, -nomy
nom
nonnormnotnovnucnuclnutrioboculoctodont-od
oeci-, oeco-oid
olfoligo-
decompose, split,
dissolve
large
great, large
soft
hammer
breast
the sea
border, edge
breast
middle
million, great
less
black, dark
table
part
middle, half,
intermediate
between, along,
after
change
measurement
small, millionth
thousandth
wrong, incorrect
send
thread
mass
one, single
death
move
shape, form
many
change
muscle
fungus
threadlike
many
soft
nose
corpse, dead
thread
new, recent
kidney
moist, liquid
nerve
neither
night
knot
ordered knowledge,
law
name
not
rule, measure
back
night
center
little nut, nucleus
feed, nourish
against
eye
eight
tooth
form, appearance
house, dwelling
like
smell
few, little
-oma
omnioncoooptorb-orium, -ory
ornithorthoscu-ose
-osis
osmo
oste
oto-ous
ov-, -a, -um
oxypachypaleopalmpanpar-, parapara, pare
parenpath-, -pathy
-ped- (Latin)
-ped- (Greek)
pendpentperpetpetperipermeaphagpharan
phenopher-philphlophobphon-, -phone
-phor-, pherphos
photophrenphycphyl-phyll
phyt-, phyte
pil
pinopinnplanplasm-, -plastplatypleur-plicplumpneumo-pod
-polar
polyporportpost-
abnormal condition,
tumor
all
mass, tumor
egg
eye
circle, round, ring
place for something
bird
straight, correct,
right
mouth
full of
abnormal condition
push
bone
ear
full of
egg
sharp, acid, oxygen
thick
old, ancient
broad, flat
all
beside, near, equal
arrange, make ready
parent
disease, suffering
foot
child
to hang
five
through
broad, spread out
seek, attack
around
pass, go
eat
cleft, gulley
show
carry, bear
loving, fond of
bark
fear, dread
sound
bear, carry
light
light
mind, diaphragm
seaweed, algae
related group, tribe
leaf
plant
hair
drink
feather
roaming, wandering
form, formed into
flat
lung, rib, side
fold
feather
lungs, air
foot
of the pole
many, several
opening
carry
after, behind
pom
pre-
apple, fruit
before, ahead of
time
predplunder, game
hunted
primfirst
prion
saw
proforward, favoring,
before
protofirst, primary
pseudofalse, deceptive
psilobare
psych
mind
pterhaving wings or fins
pulmolung
pulsdrive, push
pyrheat, fire
quadrfour
quinfive
radroot
radiray
reagain, back
rectright, correct
renkidney
replicfold back
rept
creep, crawl
respirbreath
retnet, made like a net
rhag-, -rrhage
burst forth
rhe-, rrhea
flow
rhinnose
rhizroot
rhodorose
rotowheel
rubrred
saccharsugar
saprrotten
sarcflesh
saur
lizard
schis-, schizsplit, divide
sciknow
sclerhard
-scoplook, device for
seeing
-scribe, -script
write
semihalf, partly
septpartition, seven
-septic
infection,
putrefaction
set-. seta
bristle
sexsix
-sis
condition, state,
process
sitosfood
solsun
solvloosen, free
som-, soma-, -some
body
somnsleep
sonsound
spec-, spiclook at
-spermseed
-spherball, round
spir-, -spire
breathe
-sporseed
stato stand
stat-, -stasis
standing, placed,
staying
stellstars
sternchest, breast
stom-, -stome
stratstereostigstrictstylsubsuper-, sursym-, syntachytarsotaxteletelotens
terrtetrthall-the-, -thes-theltherm
-thesis
thylacthym-tin
tom
tontoxic
toptrachetracttranstritrich-trop-trophturbturg-ul-, -ule
ultrauniur-ura
vacu
vaccvalen-, valentvarivasvectven-, ventventrver-verge
vert
vertebrvesicvestig
vigvir-, virulvit-, vivvolv-vorxanthxeroxylzo-, -zoa
zyg-
mouth
divide, arrange
solid, 3-dimensional
mark
drawn tight
pillar
under, below
over, above, on top
together
quick, swift
ankle
arrange, put in order
far off, distant
end
stretched
earth, land
four
young shoot
put
cover a surface
heat
an arranging
sack, pouch
the mind
stretch
cut, slice
tone, tension
poison
place
windpipe
drawn
across
three
hair
turn, change
nourishment, one
who feeds
whirl
swell; swollen
diminutive, small
beyond
one
urine
tail
empty
cow
strength
change
vessel
carry
come
belly, underside
true, truth
turn, slant
to turn
a joint
bladder
trace, footprint
strong
poisonous
life
roll, wander
devour, eat
yellow
dry
wood
animal
a yoke; joining
together