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Root
Meaning
Examples
acu
sharp
do, move, go
other
alt(us)
high, deep
altimeter, altitude
am, amor
love, liking
year
anthrop
man
anti(co)
old
arch
aster, astr
star
aud, aus
hear, listen
aug, auc
increase
auto, aut
self
belli
war
bibl
book
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bio
life
brev
short
abbreviate, brief
cad, cas
to fall
calor
heat
take
capit, capt
head
carn
flesh
caus, caut
burn, heat
cause, motive
cenetri
center
chrom
color
chron
time
cide, cise
cit
call, start
civ
citizen
clam, claim
cry out
shut
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cognoac, gnosi
know
heart
corp
body
cosm
universe, world
crat, cracy
rule
crea
create
cred
believe
rise, grow
crit
separate, choose
cur, curs
run
cura
care
cycl, cyclo
wheel, circular
deca
ten
dem
people
dent, dont
tooth
derm
skin
dict
say, speak
dictation, dictionary, dictate, dictator, Dictaphone, edict, predict, verdict, contradict, benediction
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doc, dokein
teach
domin
master
don
give
donate, condone
dorm
sleep
dormant, dormitory
dox
opinion, praise
drome
run, step
duc, duct
lead
dura
hard, lasting
dynam
power
endo
within
equi
equal
erg
work
do, make
fall, fals
deceive
fer
bear, carry
faith, trust
fila, fili
thread
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fin
fix
fix
flex, flect
bend
flowing
form
form, shape
fort, forc
strong
fract, frag
break
gam
marriage
gastr (o)
stomach
gen
geo
earth
germ
vital part
gest
carry, bear
congest, gestation
gloss, glot
tongue
glu, glo
grad, gress
step, go
graph, gram
write, written
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grat
pleasing
grav
heavy, weighty
greg
herd
hypn
sleep
hypnosis, hypnotherapy
helio
sun
hema, hemo
blood
here, hes
stick
hetero
different
homo
same
hum, human
water
ignis
fire
ject
throw
join, junct
join
juven
young
juvenile, rejuvenate
wash
leg
law
levi
light
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liber, liver
free
liter
letters
loc, loco
place
loqu, locut
talk, speak
light
macr-, macer
lean
emaciated, meager
magn
great
man
hand
mand
command
mania
madness
sea, pool
matri
mother
medi
mega
great
mem
remember
meter
measure
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micro
small
migra
wander
mit, miss
send
emit, remit, submit, admit, commit, permit, transmit, omit, intermittent, mission, missile
move
mon
warn, remind
mor, mort
mortal, death
morph
form
multi
many, much
nat, nasc
neo
new
neur
nerve
nom
law, order
nomen, nomin
name
nov
new
nox, noc
night
numer
number
numisma
coin
numismatics
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oligo
few, little
omni
all, every
onym
name
oper
work
ortho
straight, correct
pac
peace
paleo
old
pan
all
pater, patr
father
path, pathy
feeling, suffering
ped, pod
foot
pedal, impede (get feet in a trap), pedestrian, centipede, tripod, podiatry, antipode
pedo
child
pel, puls
drive, urge
compel, dispel, expel, repel, propel, pulse, impulse, pulsate, compulsory, expulsion, repulsive
hang, weigh
phage
eat
macrophage, bacteriophage
phil
love
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phlegma
inflammation
phlegm, phlegmatic
phobia, phobos
fear
phon
sound
photo
light
plac, plais
please
more
pneuma, pneumon
breath
pneumatic, pneumonia,
poli
city
poly
many
place, put
postpone, component, opponent, proponent, expose, impose, deposit, posture, position, expound, impound
pop
people
port
carry
portion
part, share
portion, proportion
pot
power
prehendere
seize, grasp
prim, prime
first
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primal, primeval
proto
first
psych
mind, soul
punct
point, dot
reg, recti
straighten
laughter
rog, roga
ask
rupt
break
sacred
salv, salu
safe, healthy
sat, satis
enough
sci, scientia
know
scope
see, watch
scrib, script
write
sit
sen
old
senescere
to grow old
senescence, evanescent
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sent, sens
feel
sentiment, consent, resent, dissent, sentimental, sense, sensation, sensitive, sensory, dissension
follow
serv
save, serve
servant, service, subservient, servitude, preserve, conserve, reservation, deserve, conservation, observe
sign, signi
simil, simul
like, resembling
stand
assist, persist, circumstance, stamina, status, state, static, stable, stationary, substitute
solus
alone
solv, solu
loosen
somnus
sleep
insomnia, somnambulist
soph
wise
look
specimen, specific, spectator, spectacle, aspect, speculate, inspect, respect, prospect, retrospective, introspective, expect, conspicuous
sphere
ball, sphere
spir
breath
string, strict
draw tight
stru, struct
build
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sume, sump
consume, assume (to take, to use), sump pump presumption (to take or use before knowing all the facts
touch
tele
far
tempo
time
hold
tenacious, tenant, tenure, untenable, detention, retentive, content, pertinent, continent, obstinate, contain, abstain, pertain, detain
stretch, strain
tendency, extend, intend, contend, pretend, superintend, tender, extent, tension, pretense
terra
earth
test
to bear witness
the, theo
God, a god
therm
heat
thesis, thet
place, put
tom
cut
tort, tors
twist
torture (twisting to inflict pain) retort, extort, distort, contort, torsion, tortuous, torturous
tox
poison
tract, tra
draw, pull
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subtrahend
tom
cut
atom (not cutable, smallest particle of matter), appendectomy, tonsillectomy, dichotomy, anatomy
tort, tors
twist
torture (twisting to inflict pain), retort, extort (twist out), distort, contort, torsion
tox
poison
tract, tra
draw, pull
tractor, attract, traction, subtract, tractable, abstract (to draw away), subtrahend (the number to be drawn away from another).
trib
pay, bestow
turbo
disturb
typ
ultima
last
ultimate, ultimatum
umber, umbraticum
shadow
uni
one
vac
empty
strength, worth
ven, vent
come
convene, intervene, venue, convenient, avenue, circumvent, invent, convent, venture, event, advent, prevent
ver, veri
true
vert, vers
turn
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vic, vicis
change, substitute
vict, vinc
conquer
vid, vis
see
video, evident, provide, providence, visible, revise, supervise, vista, visit, vision
alive, life
voc
call
vocation, avocation, convocation, invocation, evoke, provoke, revoke, advocate, provocative, vocal
vol
will
volcan
fire
volvo
vor
eat greedily
zo
animal
zoo (short for zoological garden), zoology, zoomorphism (attributing animal form to god), zodiac (circle of animal constellations), protozoan
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