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Latin and Greek Root
Term | Definition |
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-plec- / -plex | to fold or twist ex: implication, perplex, complex, implicit |
poli- | city ex: politics, cosmopolitan |
-port | after ex: deport, export |
po- / pov- | without ex: poverty |
post- | after ex: postscript, postpone |
pre- | before ex: prehistoric, predilection, precognition |
pro- | for, forward ex: promote, procrasinate |
pun- / pen- | pay, punish ex: punitive, punish, penalty, penitentiary |
pyr- | fire ex: pyre, pyrotechnics pyromania |
que- / quis- | to look for, to obtain ex: question, quest, inquisitive |
re- | again, back ex: regain, recreation, recognition |
rupt- | break ex: corrupt, rupture, interrupt |
sal- / sil- | to jump ex: resilient, salient |
sanct- / sacre- / secre- | sacred ex: sanction, desecrate, sanctuary |
sci- | to know ex: science, conscience, prescient, omniscient |
-scope | to see ex: microscope, telescope |
-scrib / -script | to write, to draw ex: transcript, proscribe, postscript |
se- | apart, away ex: segregate, separate |
sec- / sequ- | to follow ex: sequence, secondary |
sens- / -sent | to feel, to perceive ex: sensual, sensation, presentiment |
-sis | the condition of ex: prognosis, psychosis |
soc- | companion ex: social, society, associate |
sol- / solv- / solut | to free, to loosen ex: solve, solvent, solution, insoluble |
somp- / sop- | sleep ex: insomnia, soporific |
soph- | wisdom ex: sophomore, sophists, philosophy |
spec- / spic- | to look ex: inspect, introspective, spectacles, conspicuous |
sta- / sti- | to stand ex: statement, stasis, institute, apostatize, destitute |
stella- | star ex: stellar, interstellar, constellation |
-struct / stru- | to build ex: construction, |