ela root words

photos

light

photograph

picture drawn by light

telephoto

light from far away

photosynthesis

a process of putting things together by using light

graph

to write or to draw

phonograph

machine for writing sound

telegraph

writing from far away

hologram

3 dimensional photograph of a whole object

Tele

far away, distant

telephoto

light from far away

telethon

a telephone fundraiser

metron

measure

meter

unit of measure

geometry

measuring eyesight

tropos

turning

tropics

the area of earth from equator north to the tropic of cancer

philia

love, friendship

philogynist

one who loves woman

philologist

one who loves words

phobos

fear

agoraphobia

fear of open space

syn

with, together

sympathy

to feel w someone else

synthesis

putting together

thesis

put, place, position

parenthesis

statement beside main sentance

synthesizer

instrument which puts sounds together

kinesis

movement

kinesiology

study of human movement

kinescope

a machine which shows pictures of movement

cinematographer

motion picture photographer

phone

sound

euphony

good sound

sonus

sound

sonic

what we can hear

skopeo

look at, inspect or consider

scope

what eye can see

video visum

see

words with video visum root

television, evidence, invisible

logos

word, study

words with logos root

logic, technology, psychology

verbum

word

verbose

wordy

verbatim

word for word

nomen nominis word root

nominate, nominal, denominator

nomen nomonis

name

pro

for, before, foreword

prologue

words before beginning of play or book

prae

before, in front of (predict, precaution)

ad

to, toward, near to

adequate

even w or equal to

jacio jactom

throw

eject

throw out

pono positum

lay, put (pose, deposit)

helios

sun

sol

sun

luna

moon

dia

through, between, across, apart

trans

across, over, beyond, through

geo

earth

terra

land

dormio dormitum

sleep

hypnos

sleep (h)

annus

year

lithos

stone

petros

rock, stone

astron

star

stella

star

dendron

tree

arbor arboris

tree

chronos

time

tempus temporis

time

para

beside, along with

inter

between, among, amit

techne

art, skill

ars artis

art skill (a)

bios

life

vivo victum

live

mangus

big

pater patris

father

mater matris

mother

frater fratis

brother

demos

the people

populus

people

polis

city

urbs urbis

city

pathos

feeling

autos

self

thermos

heat

curro cursum

run

zoon

animal

verto versum

turn

facio factum

do, make

scribo scriptum

write

plico plicatum

fold

dico dictum

speak, say

biblios

book

liber libri

book

scio scitum

know