Greek and Latin Roots

Photos

Light

Graph

To write/draw

Tele

Far away, distant

Metron

Measure

Tropos

To turn

Philia

Friendship/love

Phobos

Fear

Syn

With/together

Thesis

Put, place, position

Kinesis

Movement

Phone

Sound

Sonus

Sound

Skopeo

See, look, consider, examine

Video/Visum

See

Logos

Word, study

Verbum

Word

Nomen/Nomenis

Name

Pro

For, before, forward, in place of

Prae

Before, in front of

Ad

To, towards, near, next to

Jacio/Jactum

To throw

Pono/Positum

Lay, put, place

Cum

with, together

Figo/Fixum

Fix, fasten, attach

Jungo/Junctum

join, unite, connect

Digitus

Finger, toe, inch

Caput/Capitis

Head

Manus

Hand

Pes/pedis

Foot, feet

Bracchium

Arm

Den/Dentis

Teeth, tooth

Unus

one

Duo

two

Tres

Three

Quattor

four

quinque

five

sex

six

Septem

seven

Octo

eight

novem

nine

decem

ten

centum

hundred

mille

thousand

pyro

fire

ignis

fire

Vulcanus

Vulcan - Roman god of fire

Hydro

water

Aqua

water

bonus good

Corpus/Coropis

Body

Helios

Sun

Sol

Sun

Luna

Moon

Dia

Through, between, across

Trans

Across, over, through

Geo

Earth

Terra

Land

Dormio/Dormitum

Sleep

Hypnos

Sleep

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, amid

Techne

Art, skill

Ars, Artis

Art, skill

bios

life

vivo, victum

to live

mikros

small

megas

great, large, big

Magnus

great, large, big

pater, patris

father

mater, matris

mother

Frater, fratris

brother

Demos

The people, the citizens

Populus

People

Polis

City

Urb, Urbis

CIty