Unit 1 - Latin Bases

caud (cauda)

tail

cerebr (cerebrum)

brain

cid, cis

to cut, to kill

dors (dorsum)

back

duc, duct

to lead, to draw

err

to wander, to deviate

flex, flect

to bend

fund, fus

to pour, to melt

greg (grex)

flock

lact (lac)

milk

later (latus)

side

medi (medius)

middle

ov (ovum)

egg

pon, posit, pose

to place, to put

rug

wrinkle

sangui(n) (sanguis)

blood

sicc (siccus)

dry

val

to be strong, to be well

varic (varix)

twisted and swollen (vein)

vert, vers

to turn

articul (articulus)

joint

buck (bucca)

cheek, mouth

clud, clus, clos

to close, to shut

cord (cor)

heart

cost (costa)

rib

crur (crus)

leg

cur(r), curs

to run, to go

dent (dens)

tooth

febr (febris)

fever

fer

to bear, to carry, to produce

foli (folium)

leaf

her, hes

to stick

ject

to throw

jacul (jaculum)

dart

mur (murus)

wall

nomin, nom (nomen)

name

radi (radius)

spoke of a wheel, ray

semin (semen)

seed

teg, tect

to cover

tuss (tussis)

cough

ven (vena)

vein

arbor

tree

cal

to be warm

carin (carina)

keel

cern, crew, cre

to separate, to distinguish, to secrete

cili (cilium)

eyelid, eyelash

corn(u)

horn

cub, cumb, cubit

to lie

dorm, dormit

to sleep

fet, foet

offspring, fetus

frang, fring, frag, fract

to break, to bend

grad, gress

to step, to go

lingu (lingua)

tongue, language

ment (mentum)

chin

plic, plicit

to fold

pot

to be powerful

pur

pus

ren

kidney

son, sonus

sound

sud

sweat

trud, trus

to push, to thrust

acin (acinus)

grapes in a cluster

al (ala)

wing

annul (annulus)

ring

apic

tip, summit, apex

argent (argentum)

silver

can (canis)

dog

capit, cipit (caput)

head

dur (durus)

hard, dura mater

equ (equus)

horse

lacrim, lachrym

tear

lacun (lacuna)

small pit, gap

limin (limen)

threshold

mal (mala)

cheek, cheekbone

ocul (oculus)

eye

ocell (ocellus)

little eye

palat (palatum)

palate, roof of the mouth

pariet, paries

wall

plant (planta)

sole of the foot, sprout

pont (pons)

bridge

pulvin (pulvinus)

cushion

pulvill (pulvillus)

little cushion

sen (senex)

old

aqu(a)

water

brev

short

capill

hair

Coll

neck

coron

crown

coroll

little crown

cortic, cort

bark, outer layer

cruc

cross

cune

wedge

ens

sword

falc

sickle

fug

to flee, to put to flight

line

line

luc

light, to shine

matr, matern

mother

mont

mountain

mult

many