CLA201 - Greek List 4 - Letters A - H

achille

Greek legendary hero vulnerable only in his heel, heel-tendon, yarrow (a plant)

adelph

brother, twin, twin fetal monster

aden

gland

aer

air, gas

agog

leading, promoting the flow, expelling

agoni

anguish, struggle, intense suffering, the struggle preceding death

agor

bring together, assembly

paregorik

consoling, soothing

agr

a taking, catching, painful seizure

aisthes

feeling, sensation, perception

aisthet

perceptible

aither

the upper air, ether

aiti

cause

akanth

thorn, spine, prickle

ak, akm

point, tip, highest point of

akos, ake

relief, remedy, curea

akest

healed

akou

to hear

akr

at the end, summit, extremeties

akt, aktin

ray, light rays for chemical effects, raylike or radiating structure

alex

to ward off, defend

algos, alge

pain

alges

sense of pain

allant, allas

sausage

allanto

an embryonic organ of reptiles, birds and mammals

all

other, different, external, foreign

allel

of each other

allotri

strange

allach

elsewhere

alopeki

fox-mange, loss of hair, baldness

amauros

darkness, condition of dimness, blindness

ambly

dulled, blunt

amni

the innermost membrane enclosing the fetus

amoib

change

amygdal

almond, tonsil

amyl

starch

anem

wind

aner, andr

man, male, stamen of flower

angei

vessel for blood, lymph, bile, a case

ank

something bent, the elbow

ankylos

state of being crooked or hooked, claws, adhesion of parts

anth

to blossom, break out, erupt

anthos, anthe

flower, rash

anthrax, anthrak

coal, carbuncle

anthrop

man, human being

antr

cave, cavity, sinus

aphrodite

greek goddess of love, Venus

aphrodisiak

sexual

arachn

spider or spider’s web, brain membrane

archai

ancient

arch

beginning, origin, primitive

arch

the anus

argyr

silver

arteri

windpipe, vessel, artery

arthr

joint, juncture of bones, sound in speech

arytain

pitcher, cup, ladle, cartillage of larynx

askaris, ascarid

thread, worm, intestinal worm

ask

leather bag, bladder, spore envelope

aspis, aspid

shield

aster, astr

star

asthma, asthmat

panting, short breath, gasping

astragol

anklebone, ball of the ankle joint

ather

porridge, cereal, mush, degeneration

atlas, atlant

mythological demigod who supported the world on his shoulder, the first neck vertebra

atm

air, breath, vapor, steam

aut

self, by itself

aux

to increase

auxan

to grow

ba, be

to go, walk

bas

walking, that on which one steps or stands, foundation, base

bakteri

little staff, rod, bacteria

balan

acorn, barnacle, balanus, the glans penis

ball

to throw, toss, put

bol

a throw, lump, rounded mass, clod

metabol

change

baros, bare

weight, pressure

bary

heavy

bathy

deep, inner

bathos, bathe

depth

benthos, benthe

depth of the sea

bi

life

bios

a living, way of living

blast

bud, shoot, sprout, embryonic cell

blenn

mucus

blep

to see

blephar

eyelid

bothr

trench, pit, trough

bothri

little trench, socket, sucking groove of Cestoids

botry

cluster of grapes

boubon

groin, bubo, swelling of the lymph gland

boul

will, wish

bous, bo

ox

brachi

arm, upper arm, armlike process

brachy

short

brady

slow

branchi

gills

bregma, bregmat

the front part of the skull at junction of coronal and sagittal structures

bro

to eat

bromat, broma

food

brom

stench