root
the form of a word after all affixes are removed
affix
an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning
prefix
an affix places before a word, root, or another prefix to modify a term’s meaning
suffix
an affix added to the end of a word or root, serving to form a new word functioning as an inflectional ending
a/an
not, without; unusual or irregular
ambi, amphi
around, both
ann, enn
year
able/ible
capable
aer
air
alter
other
anthrop
human
ante/anti
before
anti
against/opposite
apt
fit/join
aud
hear
auto
self
bell
war
bene
good
bi
two/twice
biblio
book
bio
life
cede/ceed
go
chrono
time
cide
death
circum
around
cogn
to know
co/con/com
with/together
contra/o
against
counter
opposite
cracy
government
cred
trust/believe
cur
run
de
down/remove
dem/demo
people
dict
say
dis/dys/dif
not/negative
duct
lead
ego
self
equi
equal
eu
good/well
e/ex
former/out
extra/extro
outside/beyond
fid
trust/faith
fin
end
fore
in front of/before
fract/frag
break
gen
birth
geo
earth
graph/gram
write
grat
pleasing
grad/gress
to step
hetero
different
hydra
water
hyper
over
hypo
under
il/im/in/ir
not
inter
between
intra/o
within
ject
throw
jud
law
junct
join
juven
young
kilo
thousand
lab
work
liber
free
log/loc
words/speech
luc/lum
light