Latin Roots 1-25 Flashcards
Acer/Acid
Bitter, sour, sharp
Acerbity - sharpness and directness in speech.
Acu/Accu
Intense
Acuity - sharpness in understanding.
Act/Agit
To move, to go
Agitate - make (someone) troubled or nervous.
Ali/Alter
Other
Alien - different from what is similiar.
Am/Amor/Ami
Love, like
Ambition - desire for succsess
Anthrop
Man
Anthropoid - monkey, humanoid.
Antiqu/Antico
Old
Antique - existing since earlier times.
Arch
Main, chief, first
Archon - the chief magistrate or magistrates in many city-states.
Aster/astro
Star
Astronomy - the branch of science which deals with celestial objects.
Aud
Hear
Audio - sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced.
Auto
Self, not move
Autonomous - having freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
Bell/belli
Warlike
Bellona - Roman Goddess of war.
Bio
Life
Biology - study of life.
Brief/brev
Short as in time, compact.
Brevity - briefness
Cad/cas
To fall, to befall upon, to sink down.
Cascade - (of water) pour downward rapidly and in large quantities.
Calc
Determine with math, reasoning, or common sense.
Calculator - a tool to calculate math.
Calor
Heat
Calorie - the amount of heat your body needs to burn.
Capit/capt
Head
Decapitate - cut off the head of (a person or animal).
Carn
Flesh, meat
Carnage - the remains of violence.
Caut/Caus
To burn, to heat.
Cauldron - a pot to burn/boil.
Cede/ces/s
To yield, to go.
Secede - to leave
Centri
Center
Central - middle.
Cept/capt
To take, taken.
Reception(American football) - an act of catching the ball.
Chrom
Color
Monochromatic - lacking of color.
Chron
Time
Chronical - to write down history of one.
