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