Flashcards: Greek/Latin Roots
All 120 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 phobia | fear of |
| photos | light |
| graph | to write or draw |
| tele | far away, distant |
| metron | to measure |
| tropos | turning |
| philia | brotherly love |
| syn | with, together |
| thesis | put, place |
| kinesis | movement |
| jungo, junctum | join, unite, connect |
| digitus | finger, toe, inch |
| caput, capitus | head |
| manus | hand |
| pes, pedis | foot |
| bracchium | arm |
| phone | sound |
| sonus | sound |
| skopeo | look at |
| video, visum | see |
| logos | study, word |
| verbum | word |
| nomen, nominis | name |
| pro | for, before, forward, in place of |
| prae | before, in front of |
| ad | to, toward, near, next to |
| jacio, jactum | throw |
| pono, positum | lay, put, place |
| cum | with, together |
| tempus, temporis | time |
| para | beside, along with |
| inter | between, among, amid |
| techne | art, skill |
| ars, artis | art, skill |
| pater, patris | father |
| mater, matris | mother |
| frater, fratris | brother |
| demos | the people, citizens |
| populus | people |
| curro, cursum | run |
| zoon | animal |
| verto, versum | turn |
| facio, factum | do, make |
| scribo, scriptum | write |
| amo, amatum | love |
| con | with, together |
| mal | bad |
| mania | madness |
| contra | against |
| pre | before |
| dis | separate or parting from |
| dynamo | power |
| a | not |
| anti | against |
| pseudo | false |
| possum | I am able |
| oculus | eye |
| lux | light |
| laud | praise |
| et cetera | and the rest |
| mare | sea |
| liber | book |
| fortis | strong, brave |
| anthropos | man |
| homo | man, same |
| ego | I |
| genus | kind, race |
| mori | to die |
| oratum | speak |
| carnis | flesh |
| flexum | to bend |
| unus | one |
| pyro | fire |
| ignis | fire |
| hydros | water |
| aqua | water |
| bonus | good |
| sol | sun |
| luna | moon |
| geo | earth |
| terra | land |
| hypnos | sleep |
| annus | year |
| lithos | stone |
| astron | star |
| stella | star |
| dendron | tree |
| arbor | tree |
| chronos | time |
| bios | life |
| morph | occurs in two or more forms |
| psyche | the soul |
| scio | know |
| dens, dentis | tooth |
| centum | hundred |
| figo, fixum | fix, fasten, attach |
| corpus | body |
| mille | thousand |
| dormio | sleep |
| credo | I believe |
| primo | first class |
| per | through |
| teneo | to hold or keep |
| ab | away from |
| super | above |
| tactum | touch |
| circum | around |
| rota | wheel |
| per | through |
| vivo, victum | live |
| pathos | feeling, suffering |
| e.g. | for the sake of example |
| i.e. | that is to say |
| dia | through, between, across, apart |
| trans | across, over, beyond, through |
| -ous | full of |
| de | down, away from |
| meta | after, along with, beyond, among, behind |
| sub | under |
| ex | out, away |
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