Word Roots

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A Selection of Latin Roots and Greek Roots,
Combining Forms, Words, and Prefixes
an etymological means of acquiring an adequate vocabulary
LATIN
LATIN PREFIX(ES)
DEFINITION(S)
EXAMPLES OF PREFIX(ES)
ab, a
ad, ac, af, ag, al, an, ap,
ar, as, at, a
ambi
ante
bi
circum, circa
com, col, con, cor, co
from, down, away
to
abstract, aversion, abject
advent, accent, accelerate, affectation, aggravate
both
before
two
around, about
closely along,
together, next to,
with
against
from, down, entirely
away, from, apart
two
from, out of, without
beyond
in, into, on
no, not, without, non
ambidextrous, ambiance
antecedent, antebellum
biennium, bifurcate, bicarbonate
circumnavigate, circumference
collusion, coheir, consort, cooperate, compact
contra, counter
de
di, dis, dif
duo, du
ex, e, ef, ec, es
extra
in, il, ir, im
in, il, ir, im
inter
intra, intro
milli, mille
multi, multus
non
ob, o, oc, of, op,
omni
quadri, quadr
per
post
pre
pro, pur
re
retro
se
semi
sub, suc, suf, sug, sum,
sup, sur, sus
super, supra
trans
among, between
within, inside of
thousand
much, many
not
against, before,
toward, for
all, everywhere
four times, four fold
through, completely
after, behind
before
before, for
back, again
back, backward
apart, aside
half
under, less than,
inferior
above, superior,
surpassing
across, through
contradict, contraband, counterfeit
deplete, demerit, depress, defrost, decline, defunct
different, disburse, digest
dubious, duet, duplication
effervescent, exhale, escape, extradition, eclectic
extrapolate, extraordinary
infer, induct, incarnate, illuminate, irrigate, imbibe
insignificant, illiterate, irresponsible, impossible,
imbecile, inappropriate,
interchange, intervention, intercept
intramural, intrastate, intramuscular
millennium, millimeter
multitudinous, multifaceted, multiply
nonresident, nonconformity
offer, omit, occur, obscene, oppress
omniscient, omnivorous, omnificent
quadriceps, quadrisect, quadrivium
persecute, pilgrim, perfect, pellucid
postdate, postdiluvian
precedent, precept, preposition
proceed, purport, pursue
recompense, refine
retrograde, retrofit
seclude, select
semicircle, semiprivate
suffer, submarine, succumb, suggest
soprano, superabundance, superintendent
transcontinental, transit
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tri
ultra
three
beyond, on other side
of
triangle, triceps, Triassic
ultrasound, ultraconservative
LATIN SUFFIX
DEFINITION(S)
EXAMPLES OF SUFFIX
-itis
inflammation
neuritis, conjunctivitis
LATIN ROOT(S)
DEFINITION(S)
EXAMPLE(S) OF ROOT(S)
acerbus, acris, acuere
sharp, to sharpen,
needle, bitter
to make equal, even
age
field
to act, to do
other, else
other
high
to walk, to go
to love, love, friend
acerbate, acupuncture, acuity, acrimony
animosity, inanimate, unanimous
aptare, aptus, apere
aqua
arbiter
arbor
ardere
artis
audire
augere
avis
beatus
bellare, bellum
bene
bonus, bon
brevis
cadere
caedere, cide
canere, cantare, cantus
capere, captum, cip, cept
life, soul, breath,
mind
year
to come forth, be
visible
to fit, suitable
water
judge
tree
to burn
art
to hear
to increase
bird
blessed, happy
to wage war, war
well
good
short, brief
fall
to cut, kill
to sing
to take, hold, contain
caput, capitis
carnis
cavare, cavus
head
flesh
to make hollow
aequare
aevum
ager, agri, agro
agere, actum, agitare
alius
alter
altus
ambulare
amare, amor, amatum,
amicus
anima
annus
apparere
equivocate, adequate, equilibrium
coeval, medieval
agrestic, agronomy
agility, react, agitate
alias, alienate
altercation, adulterate
altimeter, exaltation, alto
preamble, ambulatory
amateur, amiable, enamored
biennial, centennial, annual
apparent, appearance, apparitor
aptitude, adaptable, ineptitude
aqueous, aquarelle
arbitration, arbitrary
arboretum, arboreal
arduous, ardor
artifice, artifact, artisan
audit, audible
augmentation, augur, august
avionics, aviation, aviary, avian
beatific, beatitude
rebellious, bellicose
benevolence, beneficent
bonanza, bonny, bon voyage
abbreviate, breviary
recidivism, cascade, cadaver, decadent
incision, pesticide
recant, chant, cantata
capacious, incipient, intercept participate, capable,
captive, conceive, precept
cape, chapter, biceps, capital
carnal, carnival, incarnate, carnivore
cavernous, cavity, excavate
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cedere, cessum
centrum
centum, centi
cernere, certus
civis, civilis
clamare, clamor
claudere, clausum
clemens
clinare
colare
colere, cultus
coquere, coctum
cor, cordis
corium
corona
corpus
credere, credens
crescere, cretum
crimen
cruciare, crux, crucis
culpare
cumulare
curare, cura, curatus
currere, cursus, cour
dens, dentis
deus, dei
dexter, dextro
dicere, dictare
dignus
dirigere, directus
docere, doctum
dominus
domus
donare, do
dormire, dorm
ducere, ductum
durare, durus
errare, erratum
fabula
facere, factum, fect, fic
fallere
ferre, latum
ferrum
fervere
to go, withdraw,
move
center
hundred, tenth, ten
to see as being
different, to sift,
distinguish
citizen, community
to shout, cry out
acclaim, clear, to
make clear
to shut, close
mild, merciful
to lean, slope
to strain, filter
to till, care, cultivate
to cook, to mature
heart
skin, hide
crown
body
to believe, trust
to grow
crime, offense
to torture, cross
to blame, fault
to heap up
to take care of,
concern
to run, go
tooth
god
right, right hand
to speak, say
worthy, fitting,
suitable
to direct
to teach
lord, master
a dwelling, home
to give, to forgive
to sleep
to lead, take, bring
to harden, hard
to wander, go astray
story
to make, to do
to deceive,
disappoint
to bear, to carry
iron
to boil, glow, rage
concession, recede, access
eccentric, concentric, concentrate
percent, centimeter, centurion
discern, secret, certitude
civic, city, civility
reclamation clarare, clarus, clarify, clarity,
declaration, claret
recluse, cloister, enclosure, conclusion
clemency, inclement
clinometer, incline
portcullis, percolate, colander
cultivation, culture, cult
precocious, concoction, cook
courage, cordial, accord
excoriate
corona, coronation, coronary
corporation, corporeal
credentials, credit, incredible
crescendo, concretism, accretion, increase
criminology, incriminate
excruciating, crusade, cruzeiro
culpable, exculpate
cumulative, accumulate
curate, curious, manicure
occur, precursor, concur, course
denture, endodontia, dentifrice
deify, deity, deism
ambidextrous, dextrorotation
abdicate, indict
condign, dignitary
dirge, dirigible, address-- -- -- -- --see "regere" below
document, docent, doctrine
danger, domineer
domesticity, major-domo
condone, donation, donor
dormouse, dormitory
abduct, seduction, conducive, duke, education
obdurate, duress
aberration, err, erratic
confabulate, fable, fabulous
manufacture, sufficient, facsimile
fallacious, infallible, fail
relate, confer, referendum
ferrotype, ferric, ferrous
fervor, effervescent
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fidere, fidelis, fides
filius, filia
finire, finis, fin
firmare
figare, fixus
flare, flatus
flectere, flexus
fluere, fluxum, fluctus
foedus, fed
fortis
frangere, fractum
frater
fugere, fugitum
fumus
fundere, fusum
generare, genus1
gerere, gestum
glomerare
gnoscere, cognoscere,
gnarus, cognitum
gradi, gressus, gradus
granum, grani
gratia, gratus
gravare, gravis
grex, gregis, gregar
habere, habitum
haerere
herba
hilarare, hilaris
homo
horrere
hospes
ire, itum, itineris
jacere, ject, jactum2
jicere2
judex, judicare
jungere, junctum
jus, juris, jurare
juvenis
laborare
lacto, lact
lapis
latus
laudare, laudatum
to trust, believe, faith
son, daughter
(respectively)
to end, to limit
to make firm,
strengthen
to fasten, attach
blow
to bend
to flow
league
strong
to break
brother
to flee
smoke
to pour
birth, origin, race,
species, kind, to
beget, produce
to carry, to bear
to form into a ball
to know
perfidy, fiduciary, confidant
filial, affiliation
to step, to walk, a
degree
seed, kernel
agreeable, favor,
thanks
to weigh down, heavy
flock, herd, to gather
into a flock
to have, hold
to stick
grass, herb
to gladden, merry
man
to shudder, terrible
guest, host
to go, journey, walk
to lie, cast oneself
down, to throw
to throw between
judge
to join
law, right, to swear
young
to work
milk
stone
side
to praise, glory
progress, graduate, centigrade
infinity, finite, confinement
affirm, confirmation, firmament
fixative, crucifix, suffix
deflate, inflation
flexible, deflection, inflection
confluence, fluid, effluvium, influx, flume
confederacy, federation
fort, comfort, fortify, force
fraction, frangible, infringement
fraternal, fraternize
centrifugal, fugue
fumitory, fumarole
refund, diffuse, profound
generous, generic, gentle, genre, engender,
generation
belligerent, gesture, digest, gestation
conglomeration, glomerulus
incognito, cognition, ignorant, gnostic
granary, granule
congratulate, gratitude, grace
aggravate, gravamen, gravid, grief
segregate, congregation gregarious
habit, inhibit
coherence, adhere
herbivorous, herbaceous
hilarious, exhilarate
homicidal, hominize
horrendous, abhor
hospice, hostage, hostess
itinerant, transit, initiate
reject, adjacent, eject
interjection
judicious, prejudice, judge
conjugal, junction, joint
jurisprudence, abjure, perjury, juror, injury, justify
rejuvenate, juvenescent
collaborate, elaborate, laboratory
lacteal, lactose
lapis lazuli, lapidate
lateral, bilateral, collateral
laudable, allow
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lavare
laxare
legere, lectum3
lex, legis, legalis3
liber
liber
ligare
lingua
littera
locare, locus
loqui, locutus
lucere, lux, lucis, lumen
ludere, lusum, ludus
luna
magnus, magna
malus, mal
mandare, mando
manus, mani, man
mare
mater
mecari
medius, medio
mens
migrare
militare
mille
minimus, minor
mirare, miror, mirari
mittere, missum
monere, monitus
morbus
mordere, morsun
moris
mors, mortis, mori
movere, motus
multus
mutare, mutatum
nascor, natus
negare, negatus
nihil
nocere
nominare, nomen,
nominis
norma
notare
novus
nox, noct
nullus
to wash
to loosen, widen
to read, choose,
gather
law
book
free
to bind
tongue, language
letter
to place, place
speak, talk
to shine, light
to play, to mock
moon
great
bad, evil, wrong
to order, to command
hand
sea
mother
to trade, buy
middle
mind
to move from one
place to another
to serve as soldiers
thousand
least, small
to look at, to wonder
at
to send, let, go
to warn
disease
to bite
manners, customs
deather, to die
to move
much, many
to change
to bear, to born
to deny
nothing
to harm, injure
to name, name
rule
to mark, note
new
night
none
lavender, laver, lavish, lavabo
relax, laxity
elegant, elite, collect, dialect, legend, select, election,
neglect
privelege, illegitimate, legislature, lex non scripta,
legal
libel, libretto
libertine, deliberate, liberal
allegiance, ally, oblige, ligature
linguistics, lingual, language
obliterate, literature, letter, literati
dislocate, allocate, local
soliloquy, loquacious, circumlocution
translucent, Lucifer, luminous
illusion, interlude, ludicrous
lunate, lunatic, lunation, lunula
magnanimous, Magna Carta
malevolent, malfeasance, grand mal
mandate, commandment, mandarin
emancipate, manifest, manumit
mariner, aquamarine, mare
alma mater, maternity
merchant, market
medieval, intermediary
mention, mentation
migratory, emigrant
demilitarize, militia
millennium, millivolt
minimal, minimize, minute
miracle, mirage, admiral
emissary, remit, admittance, commissary
monitor, admonition
morbid, morbilli
morsel, remorse, mordacious
morality, mores
post-mortem, mortgage, mortmain
locomotive, motion, motor
multiply, multimedia
molt, mutation
native, prenatal, nature, renaissance
negation, abnegate
annihilate, nil
innocent, innocuous, obnoxious
nominate, misnomer, nomenclature
normative, enormity
notation, notary, connotation
renovate, novice, nova
equinox, noctuid
annul, nullifidian
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numerus
nuntiare, nuntius
oculus
opus, operari
parare, par, pari
passus, pati
pater
pax, pacis
pedis, pes
pellere, pulsus
pendere, pensare,
pendulus
petere
placare, placidus, placere
plaudere, plauseum
plenus
plere, pletum
plicare, plicatum, plicit,
ply
plus, pluris
ponere, positum
populus
portare, port
portio
potens, potentis
prehendere, prehensum
pressus
pretiare, prec
primus, primatis
privare
probare, probatum
proximus
pugil, pugnare
purgare
putare
quaerere, quaesitus
radius
radix
rapere
ratus
regere, rectus4
regere, rex, regis4
ridere, risum
rogare, rogatum
rotare, rotatus, rota
rumpere, ruptus
sacer, sacrare5
sagax, sagacis, sapare
sal
number
to report, tell,
messenger
eye
work, to work
to make equal, equal
suffer
father
peace
foot
to drive, driven
to weigh, hang,
weight
to rush at, seek
to soother, gentle, to
please
to clap, applaud
full
to fill
to fold
enumerate, supernumerary, numerology
nuncio, renounce
more
to place
people
to carry
share, portion
powerful
to seize, take hold
pressed down
to value
first
separate, peculiar
to prove, test
nearest
boxer, to fight
to clean
to think, estimate
to ask, seek
ray
root
to seize
fixed by calculation
right, to make straight
to rule, king
pluriaxial, plurality, surplus
position, opposite, depot
popularity, populace
portage, export
apportion, proportion
potentate, potentiometer
apprentice, reprehensible
depress, oppress, impress
depreciation, precious, price
primordial, prima facie
privilege, deprive
probation, prove
approximate, proximity
repugnant, pugilist
purge, purgatory, expurgation
computer, reputation
exquisite, inquisition, conquer, quest
radiation, radian
radicle, radical, eradicate
rapture, surreptitious, usurp, ravish
reason, ration
erect, rectitude, rectus
regency, regal, corrigible, regimen, direct, rule,
regular
derision, ridicule
arrogance, rogation, interrogate
rotation, rotary, rotor
rupture, interrupt
consecrate, sacrifice, sacrarium
sage, sagacious, sapient
salimeter, saline
to laugh
to ask
to turn, wheel, turned
to break, broken
holy, to make holy
wise, to taste, know
salt
monocle, binocular
magnum opus, opera, operative
disparate, parity, peer
patient, passive
paternoster, patronize
pacific, appease
expedition, pedicel
compel, expel, propellant, pulsate
impending, compendium, appendage, expenditure
impetuous, petulant, petition
placate, implacable, placebo, please
plaudit, implode
plenipotentiary, replenish, plenty
expletive, replete
reply, implicate, complicate, explicate, plait
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salire, saltum
salvare
sanctus5
sanguis
sanitas, sanatorius
satis, satiare
scandere
scire, sciens
scribere, script
secare, sect
sedere, sess
seminare, semen
sentire, sensum
sepsis
sequens, sequi
signare, signum
similare, simulare
socius, sociare
sol
solare, solus
solvere, solutum
somnus
sonus
sors, sortis
specere, spectum, spic
spirare
spondere, sponsus
stare, stet, stat
stellare, stella
stringere, strictum
struere, structus
surgere, surrection
tangere, tactus
tegere, tectus
temperare, tempus
tendere, tent
tenere, tain
tentare, tent
terminus
terra
torquere, tortum
tradere
trahere, tract
tribuere, tributus, tribus
trudere, trusus
toxicare, toxicum
tumere
turbare, turba
unus, uni
to leap, jump
to save
holy
blood
health, healthy
enough, to fill full
to climb
to know, knowing
to write, the thing
written
to cut
to sit
to sow, seed
to feel, perceive
putrefaction, poison
to follow, following
to mark out
to make like, to feign
companion, to join
sun
to make lonely, alone
to loose
sleep
sound
lot, a share
to look at, see
sally, saltatory, resile, result
save, salvation, salvage
sanctity, sanctuary, sacrosanct
sangria, sanguine, consanguinity
sanitation, sanitarium
sated, insatiable, satisfaction
ascend, descendant, ascension
omniscient, science
describe, subscription, scribe
intersection, secateurs
sediment, sedan, session, president
seminal, disseminate, seminary
consent, sensible, sentient
septic, septicemia, aseptic
prosecute, second, sequential, pursue, non sequitur
assignation, consignment
similar, facsimile, simulation, assimilate
social, society, association
solar, solstice
solo, solitary
solvent, dissolute, soluble
somnolent, somniloquy
dissonance, unison, sonorous
sort, consortium
perspicacity, specify, spectacle, retrospect, prospect,
perspective
to breathe
spirit, aspirator, expire, inspiration, respiration, aspire
to pledge, promise
spouse, correspondence
to stand
stable, establish, statue, superstition, distant
to shine, star
constellation, stelliferous
bind, draw tight
astringent, constriction, strict
build, arrange, pile up misconstrue, instruct, instrument
to rise, risen
insurgency, resurrection
to touch
tangent, tactual
to cover, covered
integument, detection, protect
time
tense, contemporize, temper
to stretch, strain, thin pretentious, tenuous, contend, tend, tense
to hold
pertain, abstinence, tenacious, tenant
to touch, try
tentacle, tentatively
limit, end, boundary
determine, terminator
earth
terra firma, terrace
to twist, twisted
contortionist, extort, torsion, torque
to deliver
extradite, tradition, treason
to draw, drawn
subtract, tractable, protract
to assign, allot, pay
tributary, attribute, distribute
to thrust, thrust
intrusion, protrusile
to smear with poison toxic, toxoplasmosis, toxicology
to swell
tumescence, tumult, contumelious
to disturb
perturb, turbid
one
union, unipetalous
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urbs, urbanus
vacare, vacuus
vagari
valere, validum
velle, volens
verbum
venire, ventum
vertere, versum
verus
vestire
via
videre, visum
vincere
violare, violatus
vir
vita
vivere, vita
vocare, vocatum, vox
volvere, volutum
vorare
city
to be empty, empty
to wander
to be strong, to have
worth
wish, willing
word
to come
to turn, change,
incline
true
to dress
way
see, look, provide
to overcome, conquer
to violate
man
life
to live, life
to call, voice
turn
to devour
exurb, urbanologist
vacuity, vacuous, evacuate
extravagant, vagaries
valor, valid, evaluate
volition, velleity
proverb, verbatim
revenue, convention, advent, contravene
vertigo, verse, introvert, versatile, anniversary
verily, verify, very
vestment, divest, investiture
pervious, viaticum
provident, visible, supervise
invincible, convince, victor
violation, inviolate
triumvirate, virago
vitality, vitamin
revive, viviparous, vonvivial
vociferous, convocation, irrevocable, revoke
involve, revolt, devolve
voracious, carnivore, omnivorous
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GREEK
GREEK PREFIX(ES) DEFINITION(S)
EXAMPLES OF PREFIX(ES)
a, an
amphi
ana
anti
cata
dia, di
epi
exo
eu
heteros
homos
hyper
hypo
not, without
about, around, both
up, against
against, opposite
down
across, through
upon, over
outside, outer part
well
other
same
over, extremely
under, in smaller
measure
after, over, between
beside
around, about
many, much
before
together, with, by
means of
amoral, anarthria
amphibian, amphibolite
anapest, anasarca
antivivisection, antipodes
catacomb, catapult
dialysis, dialect
episode, epistle
exoteric, exostosis
euphemism, euthanasia, eugenics
heterodox, heterogeneous
homonym, homoiothermal
hypergamy, hyperpnea
hypocrite, hypocaust
GREEK SUFFIX
DEFINITION
EXAMPLES OF SUFFIX
osis
state, condition,
action
neurosis, psychosis
GREEK ROOT(S)
DEFINITION(S)
EXAMPLE(S) OF ROOT(S)
acro
tip, top, apex,
pointed
to lead, to direct, to
incite
struggle, contest
field, earth, soil
pain
other, departure from
normal
man, stamen
wind
ancient, old, original
chief, first, rule
best
star
self
pressure, weight
acropolis, acrophobia
meta
para
peri
poly
pro
syn, sym, syl, sys
agogos, agein
agon, agonia
agro, agros
algia
allo, allos
andros, aner, anthropos
anemo, anemos
archaeo, archaios
arch, archos
aristo, aristos
astron, aster, astro
auto, autos
baro, baros
metaplasia, metathesis
parable, paradox
perimeter, periphery
polygamy, polyhedron, polyglot
procrastinate, projectile
syllable, synapsis, syncretism
demagogue, pedagogic
antagonist, agony
agronomy, agrostology
neuralgia, diaphragmalgia
allopath, allogamy
anthropomorphic, androsphinx
anemometer, anemophilous
archaeology, archeozoic
monarch, archipelago, archangel
aristocracy, aristocrat
aster, astral
autoharp, autoimmune, autochthon
barograph, barometer
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barys
biblos, biblion
bios
caco
chiro, cheir
chroma, chromato
chrono, chronos
cosmos
cracy, crat
crypto
cyclos
deca
demos
dendron
derma
deutero, deuter
didonai, dosis
dis, di
doxo
dynamis
esthesia
ethnos
gamos
gastro
ge, geo
gen, geno2
glot, glossa1
glyphe
gon
gonos
gramma, gram
grapho
gyn, gyneco
hemo, hema
hedron, hedral, hedra
helios
hemi
hepta
hexa
hiero
hydor, hydro
hypno
icono
ideo
isos
kilo, chilioi
klastes
latreia
heavy
book, of books
life, living things
bad, poor, evil
hand
color
time
world, order
type of government
hide
circular, wheel
ten
people
tree
skin
second
give
twice, doubly
opinion, praise
power
the ability to feel
sensation
race, nation
marriage
stomach
earth
race, kind, descent
tongue, language
carving
figure having angles
to produce
something written or
drawn
write
woman, women
blood
side, base, seat
sun, bright
half
seven
six
sacred, holy
water
sleep
image, likeness,
figure
idea
equal, alike,
identical
thousand
breaker, broken
service, worship
barium, hyperbaric
bibliopole, bibliolatry
biocenosis, bionics, biopsy
cacophony, cacoethes
chiromancy, chiropter
chromomere, chromoprotein
chronograph, chronicle
cosmography, cosmic
theocracy, bureaucrat
cryptogam, cryptogenic
cyclothymia, cyclorama
Decapolis, decaliter
demographics, endemic, democrat
dendrochronology, dendroid
hypodermic, dermoid
Deuteronomy, deuterocanonical
dose, dosage
dichotomy, dipody
heterodox, doxology
dynamo, dyne
anesthesia, aesthetics
ethnomusicology, ethnocentrism
monogamy, polygamy
gastritis, gastrolith, gastric
geodesic, geometry
Genesis
glossary, monoglot, glossalalia
petroglyph, glyphography
pentagon, polygon
cosmogony, theogony
telegram, electrocardiogram
lithography, graphology
misogyny, gyniatrics, gynarchy
hemoglobin, hematoma
hexahedral, polyhedron
heliotropic, helium, heliograph
hemisphere, hemicranial
heptahedron, heptameter
hexameter, hexahedron
hieroglyphic, hierophant
hydroponics, hydrology
autohypnosis, hypnotoxin
iconology, iconostasis
ideogram, ideophone
isocracy, isometric
chiliarch, kilocalorie, kilovolt
iconoclast, clastic
idolatry, demonolatry
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lithos, lite
logos
lysis
macros, macro
mania
mega
megalo
metron
micros, micro
miso, misein
monos
morphe
mytho
naus, nautes3
necro
neos
neuron, neuro
nomos
octo
oligo
onoma, onym
opsis, optic, ophthalmo
ornitho
oro
orthos
osteon
pais, paidos
paleo
pan
pater, patri
pathos, path
ped, pedo
penta
petros
phago, phage
phainein
philos
phobia, phobos
phone
phos, photo
physis, physio
plasma
pneuma
podos, pous
polis
polys
protos
pseudes, pseudo
psycho
stone
word, study
to loosen
enlarged, elongated
madness
large, powerful
large, great, enlarged
measure
small
to hate
one, alone
form
myth
ship, sailor
physical death,
corpse
new, young
nerve
law, science,
management
eight
few, scant, small
name
view, sight
bird, birds
mountain
right, correct
bone
child
ancient, early,
prehistoric
all, every
father
suffering, disease
small child
five
rock, stone
eating, destroying
to show, be visible
loving
fear, dread
sound, speak
light
nature
form
air, breath, spirit
foot
city
many
first
false, fake
soul, mind, breath
chrysolite, lithotomy
logic, logomachy
analysis, electrolysis
macrocosm, macropterous
pyromania, kleptomania
megapod, megalith
megalocardia, megalomania
thermometer, metronome
microcosm, microphone
misogyny, misology, misoneism
monocle, monosyllable
metamorphic, morphallaxis
mythological, mythos
naumachia, astronaut, navigation
necrology, necrophagia
Neoplatonism, neoprene
neuritis, neuropteran
nomography, astronomer
octagonal, octogenarian
oligarchy, oliguria
allonym, homonym
optical, amblyopia
ornithopter, ornithosis
orogenic, orology
orthography, orthogenesis
osteoporosis, ossify
pediatric, pedobaptism
paleontology, paleolithic
pandemonium, Pandora
patronymic, patrician
empathy, pathogen
pediatrics, pedant, pedobaptism
Pentateuch, pentathlon
petrography, petrol
anthropophagite, phagocyte
emphasis, fantasy, fancy
philharmonic, philately
photophobia, xenophobia
phonograph, phoneme
photobiotic, phosgene
physiologic, physiocrat
plasmodium, deutoplasm
pneumothorax, pneumococcus
octopus, chiropodist, podiatry
politician, Neopolitan, police
polynomial, polymer
proton, protozoa
pseudoscience, pseudosalt
psychometry, psychosis
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ptero
pyr
rheo, rrhea
schizo
scopos, skopein
seismo
sophia
sphero
static
taphos
techno
tele
temno, tomos
tetra
thanato
theos
therapy
thermo
thesis, tithenai
topo
typos
zoon
feather, wing
fire
flow, current
cleave, cut
spy, watcher, to see
earthquake
wisdom
sphere, ball, layer of
gas
causing to stand
tomb, bury
art
far, far off
cut, that which is cut
off, out
four
death
god
to cure, nurse
heat
position
place, local
type, figure, model
animal
pterosaur, pteropod
pyromaniac, pyrography, pyretic, pyrogen
logorrhea, rheophile
schizogenesis, schizogony
telescope, otoscope
seismology, seismic
sophomoric, sophist
ionosphere, atmosphere, spheroid
hydrostatics, electrostatic
epitaph
tectonic, technocrat
telemetry, telencephalon
appendectomy, lobotomy, tome
tetrarch, Tetragrammaton
thanatopis, thanatology, euthanasia
monotheism, theophany
therapeutics, heliotherapy
thermophile, thermotaxis
synthesis, thesis
toponym, topographic, topic
typography, typify
zoogenic, zoonosis
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