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Root Words
Greek and Latin Root Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a | lack, without |
| ab | from, away from |
| ad | toward |
| aden | gland |
| adip | fat |
| aer | air |
| aesthes | feeling |
| al | relating to |
| alb | white |
| aliment | food |
| alveolus | a cavity or socket |
| ambi | both |
| amphi | on both sides, in two ways |
| amyl | starch |
| an | lack, without |
| ana | up, again, apart |
| andr | man |
| angio | vessel |
| ante | before |
| anthro | human |
| anti | against |
| apo | from, off, away |
| apse | touch |
| aqua | water |
| arachne | spider or spider’s web |
| arthron | joint |
| as | upward |
| ase | enzyme |
| astron | star |
| atri | a vestibule |
| aud | hear |
| auto | oneself |
| baro | pressure |
| bi | two or twice |
| bio | life |
| blastos | germ or forming |
| brady | slow |
| branchia | gills |
| bronch | the windpipe |
| calci | calcium or lime |
| calor | heat |
| cancer | crab |
| capillus | a hair or minute tube |
| capit | head |
| cardi | heart |
| carnal | flesh |
| carp | wrist |
| cauda | tail |
| cephale | head |
| cereb | the brain |
| chir | hand |
| chloro | green |
| chondr | cartilage |
| chromo | color |
| cidal | killing |
| cili | hair |
| circum | around |
| cle | small |
| cleav | to divide |
| co | together, associated |
| com | with |
| con | with |
| coronalis | crown |
| corpus | body |
| cortex | bark of tree |
| cran | helmet |
| cret | to separate |
| cule | small |
| cut | skin |
| cyano | blue |
| cyte | cell |
| dactylos | finger |
| de | down |
| decidu | falling off |
| dent | tooth |
| derm | skin |
| di | two |
| dia | through |
| diplos | double |
| dis | apart from, negative |
| dors | back |
| ecto | on the other side |
| em | in |
| emia | blood |
| endo | inner, within |
| epi | upon |
| eu | good, normal |
| ex | out |
| extra | outside |
| fer | bear or carry |
| flectere | to bend |
| folic | small bag |
| fract | break |
| fusio | a pouring |
| gala | milk |
| gastr | stomach |
| gen | producing |
| genitus | born |
| glycol | sugar |
| gnosis | knowledge |
| gono | offspring |
| gram | letter or record |
| gymno | naked, exposed |
| gyn | woman |
| halo | salt, salty |
| hemato, hemo | blood |
| hemi | half |
| hepat | liver |
| hetero | varied |
| histo | tissue |
| homeo, homo | same |
| hydro | water |
| hyper | above or over |
| hypo | below or under |
| iasis | condition of |
| iateria | healing |
| ic | pertaining to |
| im | not |
| infer | below |
| inflamm | set on fire |
| infra | below |
| inter | between |
| intra | within, inside |
| ir | not |
| iso | same, equal |
| itis | inflammation |
| ject | throw |
| karyon | nucleus |
| kilo | thousand |
| labi | lip |
| lac | milk |
| lacri | tears |
| leuko | white |
| lingu | the tongue |
| lipos | fat |
| lithos | stone |
| logy | knowledge or study of |
| lysis | dissolving |
| macro | large |
| medulla | marrow |
| meg | large |
| melan | black |
| men | month |
| mening | membrane |
| meta | beyond or change |
| meter | measure |
| micro | small |
| mole | body |
| mono | one |
| multi | many |
| mut | change |
| myco | relating to fungi |
| neuro | nerve |
| nomy | the science of |
| oid | like |
| ole | small |
| olfact | to smell |
| oligo | few |
| oma | tumor |
| ophthal | eye |
| osis | morbid, disease, increased |
| osmo | pushing |
| osteo | bone |
| otomy | opening |
| ovi | egg |
| para | beside |
| parthen | a virgin |
| patho | disease |
| pector | chest |
| ped | a foot (Latin), a child (Greek) |
| per | through, excessively |
| peri | around |
| phago | eating |
| phase | stage, condition, appearance |
| phil | loving |
| phyco | concerning algae |
| phyll, phyllo | realting to leaves |
| phyto | concerning plants |
| pino | to drink |
| plasma | from a thing molded, form of living matter |
| pnea | breathing |
| poly | many |
| port | to carry |
| post | behind |
| pre | before |
| pseudo | false |
| pter | wing |
| puber | adult |
| pulmo | lung |
| pyo | pus |
| re | back |
| ren | kidney |
| renal | kidney |
| reticulum | a holdfast |
| rhino | nose |
| rhiz, rhizo | relating to roots |
| sacchar | sugar |
| sal | salt |
| scope | vision |
| seg, sect | cut |
| sectio | cutting |
| semi | half |
| sens | feeling |
| sis | condition |
| some | body |
| sperm | seed |
| spire | to blow or breathe |
| stasis | slowing or halting |
| sub | below |
| super | above |
| sym, syn, sys | bind together |
| tactum | to touch |
| tax | order, arrangement |
| tele | far |
| thelium | nipple |
| thermo | heat |
| thorac | chest |
| thrombo | clot |
| tion | state of |
| tome | cutting |
| tox | poison |
| tri | three |
| trophy | nourishment |
| ule | small |
| ultra | beyond |
| un | not |
| uni | one, once, single |
| vaso | vessel |
| venter | belly |
| vill | hairy |
| vivus | living |
| zo, zoo, zoon | animal |
| zygo | pair |
| zym | causing to ferment |
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