+English Root Words

Root Words Final for Honors English 1 - Rudolph + Rogers

aero

air, mist, wind

aesth

feeling, sensation, perception

anthro(po)

man, mankind

anti(-)

opposed to (used as a prefix)

arch

old

astro

star, star shaped, pertaining to outer space

auto

self

bi

two, twice, double, twofold (used as a prefix)

biblio

book

bio

life

cardio

heart, pertaining to the heart

chromato, chromo

color

chrono

time

cosm

world

crat

govern, rule, strength, power

deca

ten

demo

people, the people

derm(o)

skin

dyna

power, strength

dys

bad, harsh, wrong; ill (used as a prefix)

eco

house, home, dwelling; also used as environment

endo

within, inside, into, in, on, inner (used as a prefix)

eu

good, well, normal, happy, pleasing (used as a prefix)

ex

out of, outside, away from

geo

earth, world

glot, glos

tongue, language, speech

gno

knowledge

graph(o)

to scratch, write, record, draw

gyn(o)

woman, female

hemi

half

hetero

different, other, unlike (used as a prefix)

homo

same, equal, like, similar, common

hydro

water

hyper

above, over, excessive

path(o)

feeling, suffering, disease

ped(o)

child

peri

around, about, near, enclosing (used as a prefix)

pha/phan/phen

to show; visible

phil(o)

love, fondness for, attraction to

phobia

fear, terror

phono

sound

photo

light

pod, ped

foot, feet

post

after

poly

many, much

pre

before

semi

half

soph

wise

tele

distance

thermo

heat

tom(y)

cut

tract

pull, drag

vers, vert

turn

xeno

foreign, alien, stranger

naut, naus

sailor, ship, navigation

neo

new

mis

hate

morph(o)

shape

logu/loqu

to speak

macro

large