Level F, Unit 3
Latin and Greek Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Adventitious
ven-, vent-, veni-, ventu- (Latin: come) – chance comes to you, rather than
being part of you
-itious (Latin: a suffix; tending to, characterized by)
ascribe
scrib-, script-, -scribe, -scription, -scriptive (Latin: write, record) – record as
being apart of
circuitous
circ- (Latin: circle [a ring; wheel], round) – round about description, long
journey that isn’t straight
enjoin
junct-, jug-, join- (Latin: join, unite, yoke)
expedite
ex-, e-, ef- (Latin: a prefix occurring in words of Latin origin used in the senses:
"out of, from"; "upward"; "completely, entirely"; "to remove from, deprive of";
"without"; "former" [said of previous holders of office or dignity])
ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia (Latin: foot, feet)
ferment
ferment-, fermento- (Latin: to leaven; substance containing enzymes that break
down carbohydrates; from the Latin root of fervere, "to boil, to seethe")
inadvertent
vers-, vert-, -verse, -version, -version, -versation, -versary, -vert, vort-, vors(Latin: bend, turn)
nominal
nom-, nomen-, nomin-, -nomia, -nomic (Latin: name)
noncommittal non- (Latin: nothing, not)
peculate
proclivity
vitriolic
miss-, -miss, -mis-, -mit, -mitt- (Latin: to send, to let go, to cause to go; to
throw, to hurl, to cast)
pecu-, pecun- (Latin: cattle, property in cattle; private property; one's own;
particular)
pro-, por- (Greek > Latin: before; forward; for, in favor of; in front of; in place
of, on behalf of; used as a prefix)
cliv- (Latin: slope, slanting up or down)
vitreo-, vitre-, vitr- (Latin: glass; glassy; like glass)