Greek and Latin Roots - Weeks 1-20

Greek and Latin Roots - Weeks 1-20 Study Notes

• Week 1:
  • bio, vit: life (biology, vital)
  • psych(o): mind, spirit (psychology, psychoanalysis)
  • geo, terr: earth (geophysics, terrain)
  • astr(o), stell: star (astronomical, stellar)
  • (o)logy: study of, science of (geology, astrology)
• Week 2:
  • act: to do, driven to do (actor, active)
  • cosm(o): universe (cosmos, cosmology)
  • graph, gram, scrib, script: to write (graphic, scribble)
  • -ic: like, related to (cosmic, psychic)
  • ion, tion, ism, y: act of, state of (action, question)
• Week 3:
  • poly: many (polygon, polynomial)
  • auto: self (autograph, autobiography)
  • vis, vid: to see (vision, video)
  • tele: from afar (television, telegraph)
  • petr: rock (petrograph, petrify)
• Week 4:
  • andr(o), anthrop: male, mankind (android, anthropology)
  • patr, pater: father (paternal, patrician)
  • matr, mater: mother (maternal, maternity)
  • ped: child (pediatrician, pedagogue)
  • dem(o): people (democracy, demographics)
• Week 5:
  • a, an, im, in, non, un: not, without (impossible, unimaginable)
  • ant, anti, contra, contro: against, opposite (contradict, antitrust)
  • -crat, crac: government, rule (democracy, autocrat)
  • hyper, super, sur: over, above (hyperactive, supervisor)
  • hypo, sub: under, below (submarine, hypocrisy)
• Week 6:
  • aqua, hydro: water (aquatic, hydroplane)
  • naut, nav: to sail (nautical, navigate)
  • met, meter: to measure (metronome, millimeter)
  • chrono, temp: time (chronology, tempo)
  • ible, able: able to be (navigable, responsible)
• Week 7:
  • derm(a): skin (dermis, dermatology)
  • arthr: joint (arthritis, arthropod)
  • bronch: windpipe (bronchial, bronchitis)
  • cardio: heart (cardiology, cardiovascular)
  • cephal, cap: head, brain (hydrocephaly, capable)
• Week 8:
  • manu, mani: hand (manual, manicure)
  • pod, ped: foot (podiatrist, pedal)
  • opt(o): eye, sight (optometrist, optical)
  • corp: body (corpse, corpulent)
  • hem: blood (hematology, hematoma)
• Week 9:
  • prim(o), proto: first (prototype, primitive)
  • mono, uni: one (monotone, unicycle)
  • bi, di, tu, du: two (bicameral, digraph)
  • tri: three (triathlon, triangle)
  • tetra, quadr: four (quadratic, tetrahedron)
• Week 10:
  • penta, quint: five (pentathlon, quintuplet)
  • oct: eight (octagon, octopus)
  • dec: ten (decade, decimal)
  • hecto, cent: hundred (hectare, century)
  • kilo, mill: thousand (millimeter, kilometer)
• Week 11:
  • macro: big (macrocosm, macron)
  • mega, magn: great, large (megadose, magnificent)
  • micro, mini: small (micron, minimum)
  • bene, bon: good (benefit, bonafide)
  • mal: bad (malicious, dismal)
• Week 12:
  • fore, pre, pro: before (previous, foreshadow)
  • post: after (posthumous, posterior)
  • co, com, con, syn, sym: with, together (cooperate, symphony)
  • port: to carry (portable, airport)
  • trans: across (transport, transit)
• Week 13:
  • re: back, again (regurgitate, retread)
  • jet, ject: to throw (reject, inject)
  • mob, mot, mov: to move (mobile, motivate)
  • dict: to speak (dictate, contradict)
  • sect: to cut, separate (section, sector)
• Week 14:
  • phil, phile, philo: to love, lover of (philanthropy, philosopher)
  • biblio: book (bibliophile, bibliography)
  • scop, spec, spic: to look (microscope, spectator)
  • cycl, orb, sphere: round, circle (orbit, cyclical)
  • semi, hemi: half, part (hemisphere, semi-circle)
• Week 15:
  • phon(o): sound (telephone, phonograph)
  • phobia: fear of (hydrophobia, agoraphobia)
  • photo, lum: light (photosynthesis, illuminate)
  • chrom(o): color (chromatic, chromosome)
  • flam, pyro, igni: fire (flammable, ignite)
• Week 16:
  • miss, mitt: to send (transmit, mission)
  • dis, diff: not, reverse of, apart, away (disinterest, different)
  • flect, flex: to bend (deflect, flexible)
  • circum, peri: around (circumspect, pericardium)
  • struct: to build (construct, destruct)
• Week 17:
  • frac, frag, rupt: to break (fracture, interrupt)
  • tract: pull (contract, distract)
  • junct, join, jug: to join, meet or link (conjunction, disjointed)
  • meso, medi: middle (median, Mesoamerica)
  • de: down (deconstruct, decline)
• Week 18:
  • viv: to live (vivid, vivacious)
  • cede, ceed, cess: go, yield (process, succeed)
  • cred: believe (credible, incredulous)
  • soci: companion, friend (sociology, society)
  • strain, strict, string: bind, tie, or draw tight (constrain, restrict)
• Week 19:
  • aer(o): air, atmosphere (aerial, aerobics)
  • cit, civ: citizen (city, civic)
  • alter: change (alteration, alternate)
  • inter: between, among (interstate, interlude)
  • intra: inward, within (intradistrict, intramural)
• Week 20:
  • endo: within, inside, inner (endoscope, endotherm)
  • ex: out, away (extend, except)
  • retro: back, behind (retrospect, retrofit)
  • therm(o): heat (thermometer, thermal)
  • itis: inflammation of (dermatitis, arthritis)