Roots - English Flashcards
alter
other (alternate)
ami
love (amiable)
amphi
both ends or all sides
ann
year
anthrop
human, man
aqua, aque
water
arch
chief, leader, ruler (archangel, monarch)
arthro
joint
aud
sound
bell
war (belligerent, bellicose)
biblio
book
bio-
life
brev
short (brief, abbreviate)
cap
take, seize (capture, captivate, capacity)
carn
meat
ced
yield, go
chrom-
color
chron-
time
cogn
know (incognito, recognize)
cord/chord
cord
corp
body
crac
rule, ruler
cred
believe
cruc
cross (crucial, crucifix)
crusts
shell (crustacean)
crypt
hidden (cryptogram, cryptology, cryptic)
culp
guilt
dei
god
demo-
people (epidemic)
dent
tooth
derm-
skin
dic
speak, say
dox
belief, opinion
duc
lead (induce, conduct)
duct
lead (abduct, seduct)
crat
rule, ruler
enni
year
amic
love (amicable)
dynam
power (hydrodynamics)
ego
self
equ
equal
fac
make, do (manufacture, factory, benefactor)
fil
threadlike
frater
brother
gam
marriage (monogamy)
geo
earth
glyph
vertical groove (Hieroglyphics)
grad
step (gradual)
gress
step (progression)
graph
writing, printing
gym
naked (gymnasium)
gyn
woman
hemo
blood
hema
blood
hem
blood
holo
whole, entire (holograph)
hydr
water
iso
equal, identical (isolate)
ject
throw
jud
judge
leg
read, choose (legible)
lect
read, choose (election, lectern, lecturer)
liter
letter (literate, literal)
loc
place
log
word (monologue)
luc
light (lucid)
magn
large
man
hand (manufacture, manuscript)
mar
sea (marine)
mater
mother
mere
part, segment
meta
behind, between (metacognition)
met
behind, between (metacognition)
metri
measure
meter
measure
min
small
mit
send (permit, emit)
miss
send (submission, mission)
mob
move (mobile)
mot
move (motion)
mov
move (movie)
mon
warn (premonition)
mor
death
mort
death
morph
form, structure (amorphous)
mut
change (mutate)
neuro
nerve
nomen
name (nomenclature)
nomin
name (nominate)
nov
new
nym
word, name (pseudonym)
odonto
tooth
ortho
straight, correct
pac
peace (pacify, Pacific Ocean)
pater
father
path
feeling, suffering (sympathy)
ped
foot (pedal)
pod
foot (gastropod)
pel
push (compel)
pend
hang, weigh (pendant)
phon
sound, voice
plan
flat (plantation)
pneum
lung
port
carry (report)
pot
power (potent)
psych
soul, mind, spirit
pugna
fight (pugnacious, pugilist)
quer
ask
quis
ask (inquisition)
scent, scend
climb
schizo
division, split
sci
know
sciss
cut
scrib, script
write
sec
cut
sed
sit (sedentary)
sens
feel, be aware
sequ, secu
follow (sequence, sequel, consecutive)
serv
serve, protect (service)
simil
same
siphon
tube
sol
sun
son
sound
soph
wisdom, knowledge (philosophy, sophisticated)
spec, spic
look, see (spectacles, inauspicious)
spir
coil (spiral)
spir
breathe (inspire, perspire)
spond, spons
promise, answer for (respond, responsible)
spont
by one’s own force
stat
stay, position (station)
tang
touch (tangible)
tact
touch (tactile)
temp
time (temporary)
ten, tent
hold (tentative, tenuous)
terr
earth
theo
god, deity
therm
heat
trophy
nutrition, food (atrophy - without nutrition)
uro
urine
vac
empty (vacation)
ven, vent
come, go (intervene, convene)
ver
truth (verify)
vert
turn (introvert, vertigo, irreversible)
vit
life
voc
call (revoke)
pel
push (pulsate)
a-, an-
not, without (amoral, anesthetic)
ab-
away from (abstain)
ad-
to, toward (adjacent)
ambi-
both (ambivalent)
ana-
up, back, again (analogy, anatomy, anagram)
anti-
against
apo-
from, away from (apology)
auto-
self
bene-
good
cata-, cat-
down, against (catastrophe)
centro-, centri-
around, center
circum-
around (circumvent)
com-
with, together (community)
con-
with, together (connect)
contra-
against
de-
down, away (deject - cast down)
dia-, di-
through, across (diameter)
dis-
apart, not (disengage)
dys-
ill, difficult, bad (dysentery)
e-
out of, from (elect - choose out of, eject - throw out)
ecto-
on the outside (ectoderm)
en-, em-
in (empathy - feeling in)
endo-
within, inside (endoscope)
epi-
upon (epitaph, epidermis, epicenter)
eso-
inward, within (esoteric, esophagus)
eu-
well, good (euthanasia - good death)
ex-
out of, from (exhume, exodus)
hetero-
other, different (heterodox)
homo-
same
hyper-
over (hypertension)
hypo-
under (hypodermic)
il-
not (illegitimate)
im-
not (imperfect)
im-
into (imbibe)
angio
blood
rhino
nose
nephr(o)
kidney
cyto
cell
cysto
bladder
megalo
enlarged
megaly
enlarged
ostomy
make a (permanent) opening
otomy
make an incision
brady
slow
tachy
fast
cyano
blue
pathy
disease
-ia
condition of
ectomy
removal
peri
around
algia
pain
cephal
head
encephal
brain
-ectomy
surgical removal
-itis
inflammation
neur
nerve
micro
small
my/o
muscle
myel/o
spinal cord
-pathy
disease
phren
mind
-plegia
paralysis
rachi
spinal column, vertebrae
spondyl
vertabra, vertabral column
gnosis
knowledge