Starts with M

Question 1

-machy

Answer 1

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: fight

Example:
tauromachy
psychomachy
monomachy
Lysimachia
naumachia
centauromachia

Question 2

macro-/megalo-

Answer 2

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: large

Example:
macrosomia
macrocephalous
megalomania
makroskelic

Question 3

mal-

Answer 3

Language Of Origin :Latin
Definition: bad

Example:
maladive
malaise
malapert
malaprop
malariae
malapropos
malediction
malocclude

Question 4

malac-

Answer 4

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: soft

Example:
malacophyllous
malaxate
chondromalacia
malacone
malacophilous

Question 5

-mancy

Answer 5

Language Of Origin : Greek
Definition: divination

Example:
astragalomancy
dactyliomancy
oneiromancy
oomantia

Question 6

-mania

Answer 6

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: madness

Example:
kleptomania
megalomania
phaneromania
potichimanie

Question 7

matr-

Answer 7

Language Of Origin: Latin
Definition: mother

Example:
matricula
matrix
matron
materfamilias
matrifocal
matroclinic

Question 8

medi-
media-
medio-

Answer 8

Language Of Origin: Latin
Definition: middle

Example:
mediastinum
Medialuna
mediobrome
mediopassive

Question 9

meio-
mio-

Answer 9

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition:less, fewer

[Don’t confuse w/ myo-or myio-]

Example:
meiobar
meiophylly
miolecithal
Miocene

Question 10

melan-/mela-

Answer 10

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: black

Example:

melaniferous
Melastoma
melanocratic
melainotype
stilpnomelan

Question 11

mel-
melli-

Answer 11

Language Of Origin: Latin / Greek
Definition: honey

[Cf. glyc-/glycy-
saccharo-.]

Example:
melada
melichrous
oenomel
melilot
mellite
melosa
melliferou
mellisugent
mellisonant
oxymel
melleous

Question 12

melo-

Answer 12

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: music, song

[Cf. -oed-
-oem-.]

Example:
melopoeia
melodeon
melofarce
melologue

Question 13

mer-

Answer 13

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: part

Example:

meromictic
homoeomeral
meridic
penthemimer
merismatic
polymer

Question 14

meso-

Answer 14

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: middle

Example:
mesophryon
mesochondrium
mesocn

Question 15

meta-

Answer 15

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition : happening later, change in, beyond

[Cf. mesati-.]

Example:
metanoia
metoposcopy
metachromasy
mesocnemic
mesocotyl

Question 16

-meter

Answer 16

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: measuring

Example:
bathypitotmeter
bolometer
myriameter
odiometer

Question 17

micro-

Answer 17

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: small

Example:
microaerophile
microalgae
microceratous
microcercous
micrococcus

Question 18

miso-

Answer 18

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition : hate, hatred

[Cf. -metry.]

[Latin mis-]

Example:
misocainea
misology
misopedia
misoneism
misogamic

Question 19

mnes-
mnem-

Answer 19

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: memory

Example:
mneme
mnemonic
Mnemosyne
mnestic
anamnesis

Question 20

moll-
molli-

Answer 20

Language of Origin :Latin
Definition: soft

[Cf. Greek ambly-]

Example:
emollience
mollification
moll
Mollugo
mouillé

Question 21

mono-

Answer 21

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition:one

[Cf. heno-]

Example:

monogoneutic
monochasium
monocotyledonous
monobloc

Question 22

-morph

Answer 22

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: shape

Example:

palynomorph
paedomorphy
skeuomorph
liphistiomorph
pleomorphic

Question 23

multi-

Answer 23

Language Of Origin : Latin
Definition: many

Example:
multivious
multiculti
multifidus
multiloquent
multigravida

Question 24

myelo-

Answer 24

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: marrow, spinal cord

Example:
poliomyelitis
syringomyelia
panmyelophthisis
atelomyelia

Question 25

-mycin

Answer 25

Language Of Origin :ISV
Definition: substance from fungi

[= myc- + -in]

Example:
tobramycin
puromycin
oligomycin

Question 26

my-
myo-

Answer 26

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: muscle

Example:
myofibril
myocomma
myolemma
myophrisk
myoclonus
myoclonia

Question 27

myi-
myio-

Answer 27

Language Of Origin: Greek
Definition: housefly

Example:
myiasis
myiosis
cecidomyia
stegomyia
Cephenemyia

Question 28

manu-
-man-

Answer 28

Language Of Origin :Latin
Definition: hand

Example:
quadrumana
manualiter
amanuensis
manuduction
manubrium

Question 29

mys-

Answer 29

Language Of Origin : Greek
Definition:mouse,muscle

[Cf. mur-/mus-
myx-
mixo-.]

Example :
endomysium
perimysial
epimysium

Question 30

mycet-
myc-

Answer 30

Language Of Origin : Greek
Definition: mushroom

Example :
mycetismus
maduromycosis
mycetoma
mycetous
Brettanomyces

Question 31

myrmec-

Answer 31

Language Of Origin : Greek
Definition:ant

[Cf. formic-.]

Example :
myrmekite
myrmotherine
myrmecochorous
myrmicine

Question 32

Caution: Do not confuse myelo- (bone marrow
spinal cord) and myo- (muscle). Also
don’t confuse
melli- (honey) with melo- (song); chyl- (juice) and cheil- (lip); or para- (beside) and peri- (around).