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love
Latin, amare: to love
ex. amorous: loving |
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mind, life, spirit, anger
Latin, animus: spirit
ex. animal: a living creature |
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yearly
Latin, annuus: yearly
ex. annual: yearly
perennial (per + ennial):through the year |
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good, well, gentle
Latin, bene: good
ex. benign: harmless, mild, gentle
beneficial (bene + fic + ial): belonging to, pertaining to good |
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life
Greek, bios: life
ex. biography: book about a person's life |
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know
Latin, cognoscere: to know
ex. recognize (re + cogn + ize): to know, to identify |
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grow
Latin, crescere: to grow
ex. create: to originate, to produce |
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say, speak
Latin, dicere: to say
ex. indicate: to show, to point out |
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teach, prove
Latin, docere: to teach
ex. docile: obedient, easily taught |
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thought, idea
Greek, dokein: seem, think
ex. dogma: an established opinion |
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lead
Latin, ducere: to draw or lead
ex. conduct: to lead or guide
***ducere is one of themost prolific sources of English words |
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make do, do
Latin, facere: make, do
ex. difficult: hard to do, troublesome |
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shape, make, fashion
Latin, fingere: shape, make
ex. fiction: something produced from imagination, an invented story |
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shape
Latin, forma: beauty, shape, form
ex. format: the shape and size of something |
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to give birth, kind
Greek, genus: birth
ex. generate: to produce, to create |
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earth
Greek, ge: earth
ex. geography: a science that describes the earth's surface |
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write, draw
Greek, graphein: write, scratch, carve
ex. graphic: written, drawn, vividly shown |
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law
Latin, lex: law
ex. legal: based on law |
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place, area
Latin, locare: to place
ex. location: a place , postion occupied |
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sya, speech, word, reason, study
Greek, logos: speech, word, reason
ex. logic: the study of reason, reasoning |
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hand, make, do
Latin, manus: hand
ex. manage: to handle with skill, to be able to do |
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light
Latin, lucare: shing
Latin, lumen: light
Latin, lustrare: light up
ex. translucent: permitting some light to come through |
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recall, remember
Latin, memor: mindful
ex. memory: the ability to recall or to bring to mind |
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mind
Latin, mens: mind
ex. mental: related to the mind |
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name
Latin, nomen: name
ex. nominate: to name for office |
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work
Latin, opus: work
ex. operate: to work, to perform |
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feel
Greek, pathos: feeling
ex. sympathy: sharing another persons feeling |
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foot
Latin, pes: foot
ex. impede: to hinder, to slow down |
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food
Greek, pous: foot
ex. podium: a platform, an area raised above the surrounding ground |
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love
Greek, philos: loving
ex. philosopher: lover of wisdom
(philo + soph) = lover of wisdom |
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carry
Latin, portare: carry
ex. import: to bring in from a foreign country |
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mind
Greek, psukhe: soul, spirit
ex. psychology: study of the mind
(psych + ology) mind study of |
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break
Latin, rumpere: break
ex. erupt
(e + rupt) break out |
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