ERWC Word Dissection Lessons 4-6

Al

Examples: alleviate, allude, allusive, allocution

to/toward (against)

Bel/bell/belli/bellum

Examples:  bellicose, rebellious, rebel, antebellum

war (fight)

Pulmo/pulmon

Examples: pulmometer, pulmonic

lung

Chlor/chloro

Examples:  chlorophyllous, chloremia, 

chlorosis

green (greenish substance)

Roy

Examples:  royal, royalist, royalty, royalize

king

Dodeca

dodecaphony

12

Arbor

Examples:  arborescent, arborist, 

arborolatry, arborous

tree

Rrhage/rrhagy/rrhagia

Examples: hemorrhage, gastrorrhagia, 

enterorrhagia

rupture (burst/bleeding)

Corona

Examples:  coronation, coronal  

crown

Esce

Examples: arborescent, luminesce, luminescence

become (begin/produce/make)

Bronch/broncho/bronchi

Examples:  bronchitis, bronchocele, 

bronchial, bronchoscopy

windpipe

Saur/saurus/sauro/sauri

Examples: ornithosaur, sauriderma, sauroid, phytosaur, sauriosis

lizard

Nasc

Examples:  nascent, renascence 

born

Gluc/gluca/gluco

Examples:  glucose, glucometer, gluconeogenesis

sweet (sugar)

Mendac

Examples: mendaciousness, mendaciously

false (lying)

Vinc

Examples:  vincible, invincibility, convince

conquer (overcome)

Laud/plaud

Examples: laudable, applaud, lauder

praise (worthy)

Nepho/nephelo

nephology, 

photonephograph, nephelometer, 

mycetophagous

cloud

Myc/myco/myceto

Examples:  mycoid, mycology, rhinomycosis

fungus

Jolli

Examples: jollify, jollification, jolliness

jolly (joyous/merry)

Etymo

Examples:  etymology, etymologist

word origin