Chapter 5: Latin Suffixes 2 (words) Flashcards
adipose (adip-ose)
having to do with (“full of”) fat or fatty material
somnolent (somn-o-lent)
drowsy, prone to sleep
ingest (in-gest)
to take into the body by swallowing or absorption
flexible (flex-ible)
subject to being bent
native (nat-ive)
belonging to a particular place by birth
tenacious (ten-acious)
inclined to hold on to something or persist
morbid (morb-id)
having to do with or characterized by disease
ductile (duct-ile)
able to be drawn out or extended
gradual (grad-ual)
characterized by step-by-step progression
virulent (vir-u-lent)
full of poison, deadly, destructive
digestive (di-gest-ive)
tending to digest, having to do with digestion
regressive (re-gress-ive)
tending to take a step backwards
varicose (varic-ose)
full of twists and swelling
nutritious (nutr-itious)
related to nourishment
aquatic (aqua-tic)
pertaining to water
auditory (audit-ory)
related to the process of hearing
spinous (spin-ous)
full of spines
reductive (re-duct-ive)
inclined to lead backwards
adhesive (ad-hes-ive)
tending to stick or cling
incisive (in-cis-ive)
tending to cut in (as a comment)
fibrous (fibr-ous)
full of fibers
retentive (re-tent-ive)
tending to hold on to
postnatal (post-nat-al)
related to the time after birth
active (act-ive)
tending to do or act
digestible (di-gest-ible)
able to be digested
sensory (sens-ory)
tending to feel or perceive, related to perception
tremulous (trem-ulous)
inclined to tremble or shake
vitreous (vitr-e-ous)
full of glass, composed of glass
purulent (pur-u-lent)
full of pus
excision (ex-cis-ion)
the act of cutting away or taking out
conduction (con-duct-ion)
the transmission of signals (eg through nerves)
puromucuous (pur-o-muc-uous)
containing both pus and mucus
cadaver (cad-aver)
dead (“fallen”), body, corpse
audiogram (aud-iogram)
a written record of a hearing test
somnambulist (somn-ambulist)
one who is subject to sleepwalking
adiposis dolorosa
the formation of painful fat deposits in the skin
excrementitious (ex-crement-itious)
having to do with waste material
delirium tremens
“shaking madness”, a result of alcohol withdrawal