Similar Roots Flashcards
Acer = sharp
Acerb - acerbic Edge Acrimony Acrid Acumen Acidulous Acid
Capere = to take
Perceive, perception Receive, receipt, reception Deceive, deceit, deceptive Conceive, conceit, concept Capture, captive Prince, principle, principal = primus + capere
Cedere = to yield
Withdraw
To go
Cede
Concede Recede Cede Proceed, precede, precedent procedure Accede Exceed Intercede Cease Decease Predecessor Ancestor
Calamare = to cry out, to shout
Acclaim Exclaim Declaim Claim Clamor, clamorous Proclaim Intercalate
Dicere = to say, to decide
dicare to proclaim
Latin
Indicate Diction Dedicate Predicate Predict Dictate Judge from judicere
Ducere= to lead
Introduce Produce Reduce Subdue Conduce Induce
Ferre = to carry
Latus past participle of ferre
Infer Refer Defer Confer Prefer Interfere
Relate
Translate
Tolerate
Faire = to do
Feasible
Fidere = to trust
Confide,
Confidence, confident
Diffidence, diffident
Jacere = to throw
Dejection, Dejected Eject Reject Interject Subject Object Conjecture Project
Fundere = to pour Fundus = bottom
Confuse - confound
Profuse - profound
Defuse
Not =
Seems refuse and refound are not of this root type.
Nuntiare = to report
Announce
Pronounce
Denounce
Plenus, plethin = to be full
Plete
Complete
Replete
Deplete
Plenty
Replenish
Plenary
ponere = to put
Pose
Pound
Suppose, presuppose Impose Expose Dispose, predispose, disposal Position Compose, compound, composure Purpose propose, propound Interpose
Repose is from pausare: to stop
Putare = to consider, to think
Depute - deputy Impute Repute - reputation Compute - computer Count >> counter >> compute >> putare Putative Dispute
Quaerere= to seek, obtain
Acquire, acquisition Conquer, conquest Inquire Query Question
Regere = to lead straight
Rectify, rectitude Correct Erect Right Derogate, derogatory
Sequi = to follow
Sequence
Consequence
Subsequent
Sequester
Specere = to look
Respect Aspect Inspect Prospect Speculate Spectacle Spectacular Specular Speculum Spectator Spector Spectrum, spectro- like in spectroscopy
Spy
Stare = to stand
Insist Persist Resist Consist Desist Exist Subsist
Servare = to keep, to guard
Observe Conserve Deserve Preserve Serve Reserve
Spirare = to breath, to blow
Inspire Expire Respire, respiration Spirit, spiritual Conspire
Stringere = to bind tight, to press together
Strict - strain
Constrict - constrain
Restrict - restrain
Trahere
Latin
Tract
Attract, attractive Distract Contract Abstract Retract Retreat Protract Extract Tractor
Sumere = to take up
Sub-up + emere-to take
Assume Consume Subsume Resume Presume - presumption
Tendere = to stretch
Attend - attendant Intend - intent Contend Tend Pretend Tenor Portent - portentous
Venire = to come
Invent Convent, convention Prevent Circumvent Revenant Avenue Revenue Venture Advent - adventure Event Intervene - intervention
Vertere= to turn
Pervert, perverse Revert, reverse Convert, converse Divert, diverse Advert, adverse Verse Versus Universe -ward e.g. Toward, leftward, forward, froward
Tenere = to hold
Contain Obtain Retain Abstain Tenacious - tenacity Pertinacious - pertinacity
