Root Words Flashcards
a/n
not, without
a
on
a, ab/s
from, away, off
a/c/d
to, toward, near
acro
top, height, tip, beginning
act
do
aer/o
air
agr/i/o
farming
alg/o
pain
ambi, amphi
both, on both sides, around
ambul
walk, move
ami/o
love
ana
up, back, against,
again, throughout
andr/o
man, male
anim
life, spirit
ann/enn
year
ante
before, in front
anth/o
flower
anthrop/o
human
anti
against, opposite of
apo, apho
away, off, separate
aqu/a
water
arbor
tree
arch/i
chief, most important, rule
arch/a/i
primitive, ancient
arthr/o
joint
art
skill
astro,
aster
star, stars, outer space
aud/i/io
hear
auto
self, same, one
avi/a
bird
bar/o
pressure, weight
bell/i
war
bene
good, well
bi/n
two, twice, once in every two
bibli/o
book
bio
life, living matter
blast/o
cell, primitive, immature cell
burs
pouch, purse
calc
stone
cand
glowing, iridescent
capt, cept, ceive
take, hold
cardi/o
heart
carn/i
flesh, meat
cata
down, against
completely, intensive,
according to
caust,
caut
to burn
cede,
ceed,
cess
go, yield
celer
fast
cent/i
hundred, hundredth
centr/o/i
center
cephal/o
head
cerebr/o
brain
cert
sure
chrom/o chromat/o, chros
color, pigment
chron/o
time
chrys/o
gold, yellow
cide, cise
cut, kill
circum,
circle
around, about
claim, clam
shout, speak out
clar
clear
clud, clus
close
cline
lean
co
with, together, joint
col
together, jointly
com
together, common
cogn/i
know
con
with, jointly
contra/o
against, opposite
corp/o
body
cosm/o
universe
counter
opposite, contrary, opposing
cranio
skull
cred
believe
cruc
cross
crypto
hidden, secret
cumul
mass, heap
curr, curs
run
cycl
circle, ring
de
reduce, away, down, remove
dec/a,
deka
ten
deci
one tenth
dem/o
people
demi
half, less than
dendr/o/i
tree
dent, dont
tooth
derm/a
skin
di/plo
two, twice
di/s
apart, away,
not, to the opposite
dia
through, between,
apart, across
dict
speak
domin
master
don/at
give
duc/t
lead
du/o
two, twice
dur
harden, to last, lasting
dyn/a/am
power, energy, strength
dys
abnormal, bad
e-
out, away
ego
self
em, en
into, cover with, cause
endo
within, inside
enn/i, anni
years
en, in
inside, inwards
ep/i
on, upon, over,
among, at, after,
to, outside
equ/i
equal, equally
erg/o
work
esth/aesth
feeling, sensation, beauty
ethno
race, people
eu
good, well
ex
from, out,
extra, extro
outside, beyond
fac/t
make, do
fer
bear, bring, carry
fid
faith
flect
bend
flor/a,
fleur
flower
for
completely (used to intensify
the meaning of a word)
fore
in front of, previous, earlier
form
shape
fract, frag
break
fug
flee, run away, escape
funct
perform, work
fus
pour
gastr/o
stomach
gen/o/e/
genesis
birth, production,
formation, kind
geo
earth, soil, global
ger
old age
giga
a billion
gon
angle
gram
letter, written
gran
grain
graph/y
writing, recording, written
grat
pleasing
gyn/o/e
woman, female
gress, grad/e/i
to step, to go
hect/o, hecat
hundred
helic/o
spiral, circular
heli/o
sun
hemi
half, partial
hem/o/a
blood
hepa
liver
hept/a
seven
herbi
grass, plant
hetero
different, other
hex/a
six
histo
tissue
homo,
homeo
like, alike, same
hydr/o
liquid, water
hygr/o
moisture, humidity
hyper
too much, over,
excessive, beyond
hyp/o
under
iatr/o
medical care
icon/o
image
idio
peculiar, personal, distinct
il, in
in, into
ig, il, im,
in, ir
not, without
imag
likeness
infra
beneath, below
inter
between, among, jointly
intra,
intro
within, inside
ir
not
iso
equal
ject
throw
jud
law
junct
join
juven
young
kilo
thousand
kine/t
/mat
motion, division
lab
work
lact/o
milk
later
side
leuk/o,
leuc/o
white, colorless
lex
word, law, reading
liber
free
lingu
language, tongue
lip/o
fat
lite, ite,
lith/o
mineral, rock, fossil
loc
place
log/o
word, doctrine, discourse
loqu, locu
speak
luc
light
lud, lus
to play
lumin
light
lun/a/i
moon
macro
large, great
magn/a/i
great, large
mal/e
bad, ill, wrong
man/i/u
hand
mand
to order
mania
madness, insanity,
excessive desire
mar/i
sea
mater,
matr/i
mother
max
greatest
medi
middle
mega
great, large, million
melan/o
black
memor/i
remember
merge,
mers
dip, dive
meso
middle
meta
change, after, beyond, between
meter,
metr/y
measure
micro
very small, short, minute
mid
middle
migr
move
milli
onethousandth
min/i
small, less
mis/o
bad, badly, wrong, wrongly,
to hate
miss, mit
send, let go
mob
move
mon/o
one, single, alone
mot, mov
move
morph/o
form
mort
death
multi
many, more than one or two
mut
change
my/o
muscle
narr
tell
nat
born
nav
ship
necr/o
dead, death
neg
no
neo
new, recent
nephr/o
kidney
neur/o
nerve
nom/in
name
non
no, not, without
not
mark
noun,
nunc
declare
nov
new
numer
number
ob, op
in the way, against
oct/a/o
eight
ocu
eye
od
path, way
omni
all
op/t/s
eye, visual condition, sight
opt
best
ortho
straight
osteo
bone
out
goes beyond,
surpasses, exceeds
over
excessive
oxy
sharp
pale/o
ancient
pan
all, any, everyone
para
beside, beyond, abnormal,
assistant
para
protection from
pater,
patr/i
father
path
feeling, emotion
ped/i/e
foot, feet
pel
drive, force
pent/a
five
pept,
peps
digestion
per
through, throughout
peri
around, enclosing
phag/e
to eat
phil/o
love, friend
phon/o
/e/y
sound
phot/o
light
phyll/o
leaf
phys
nature, medicine, the body
phyt/o/e
plant, to grow
plas/t/m
to form, development,
forming cells
plaud, plod, plaus, plos
approve, clap
pneum/o
breathing, lung, air, spirit
pod/e
foot
poli
city
poly
many, more than one
pon
place, put
pop
people
port
carry
pos
place, put
post
after, behind
pre
earlier, before, in front of
pro
before, in front of,
for, forward
prot/o
primitive, first, chief
pseud/o
wrong,false
psych/o
mind, mental
pugn/a,
pung
to fight
pul
urge
purg
clean
put
think
pyr/o
fire, heat
quad/r/ri
four
quart
fourth
quin/t
five, fifth
radic,
radix
root
radio
radiation, ray
ram/i
branch
re
again, back, backward
reg
guide, rule
retro
backward, back
rhin/o
nose
rhod/o
red
rid
laugh
rrh/ea
/oea/ag
flow, discharge
rub
red
rupt
break, burst
san
health
scend
climb, go
sci
know
scler/o
hard
scop/e/y
see, examine, observe
scrib,
script
write, written
se
apart
sect
cut
sed, sid, sess
sit
self
of, for, or by itself
semi
half, partial
sept/i
seven
serv
save, keep
sex
six
sol
alone
sol
sun
somn/I
sleep
son
sound
soph
wise
spec/t,
spic
see, look
sphere
ball
spir
breathe
sta
stand
stell
star
struct
build
sub
under, lower than,
inferior to
sum
highest
super
higher in quality
or quantity
sy/m
/n/l/s
together, with, same
tact, tang
touch
tax/o
arrangement
techno
technique, skill
tel/e/o
far, distant, complete
temp/or
time
ten, tin, tent
hold
ter, trit
rub
term/ina
end, limit
terr/a/i
land, earth
tetra
four
the
put
the/o
god
therm/o
heat
tort
twist
tox
poison
tract
pull, drag
trans
across,beyond, through
tri
three, once in every three,
third
ultra
beyond, extreme, more than
un
not,opposite of, lacking
uni
one, single
urb
city
vac
empty
ven/t
come
ver/I
truth
verb
word
vers,
vert
turn
vice
acting in place of,
next in rank
vid
see
vince,
vic
conquer
vis, vid
see
viv/i
vit
live, life
voc/i
voice, call
vol/i/u
wish, will
vor,
vour
eat
xanth
yellow
xen/o
foreign
xer/o/I
dry
xyl
wood
zo/o
animal life
zyg/o
pair
