Common Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes – Ivy Global List

Vocabulary flashcards covering the principal roots, prefixes, and suffixes listed in the lecture notes.

ag / act

root meaning “do”

ambul

root meaning “walk, move”

ami / amo

root meaning “love”

anim

root meaning “mind, soul, spirit”

anthro

root meaning “human”

apt

root meaning “skill”

arch

root meaning “chief, first”

aud / audit

root meaning “hear”

auto

root meaning “self”

belli

root meaning “war”

ben

root meaning “good”

biblio

root meaning “book”

bio

root meaning “life”

carn

root meaning “flesh, meat”

ced / ceed / cess

root meaning “yield, go”

chron

root meaning “time”

cid / cis

root meaning “cut, kill”

civi

root meaning “citizen”

cogn

root meaning “know”

corp

root meaning “body”

cred

root meaning “believe”

dem

root meaning “people”

dic / dict

root meaning “speak”

domin

root meaning “master”

esth / aesth

root meaning “feeling, beauty”

err

root meaning “wander”

eu

root meaning “good, beautiful”

fact / fict

root meaning “make, do”

fall / fals

root meaning “deceive”

fid

root meaning “faith”

grad / gress

root meaning “go, step”

graph / gram

root meaning “writing”

gyn

root meaning “woman”

juven

root meaning “young”

kine / cine

root meaning “motion”

log

root meaning “word, study”

loqu / locut

root meaning “talk”

luc

root meaning “light”

magn

root meaning “great”

mal

root meaning “bad”

miss / mit

root meaning “send”

mori / mort

root meaning “die”

morph

root meaning “shape, form”

nat

root meaning “born”

nom

root meaning “name”

nov

root meaning “new”

omni

root meaning “all”

pac / pas / pax

root meaning “peace”

path / pass

root meaning “disease, feeling”

phil

root meaning “love”

port

root meaning “carry”

poten

root meaning “able, powerful”

psych

root meaning “mind”

reg / rect

root meaning “rule”

sacr / secr

root meaning “holy”

sci

root meaning “know”

scribe / script

root meaning “write”

somn

root meaning “sleep”

spec / spic

root meaning “see, look”

tang / tact / ting

root meaning “touch”

terr

root meaning “land”

urb

root meaning “city”

vac

root meaning “empty”

ver

root meaning “truth”

verb

root meaning “word”

viv / vit

root meaning “alive”

voc / vok

root meaning “to call”

ab / abs-

prefix meaning “from, away”

ac- / ad-

prefix meaning “to, near”

ambi- / amphi-

prefix meaning “both”

an- / a-

prefix meaning “without”

ante-

prefix meaning “before”

anti-

prefix meaning “against”

circum-

prefix meaning “around”

co- / col- / com- / con-

prefix meaning “with, together”

contra- / contro-

prefix meaning “against”

de-

prefix meaning “down, away”

di- / dif- / dis-

prefix meaning “not, apart”

dia-

prefix meaning “through, across”

dys-

prefix meaning “abnormal, bad”

e- / ex- / extra- / extro-

prefix meaning “out, beyond”

em- / en- / endo-

prefix meaning “inside, within”

in- / il- / im- / ir- (1)

prefix meaning “not”

in- / il- / im- / ir- (2)

prefix meaning “in, upon”

inter-

prefix meaning “between, among”

intra-

prefix meaning “within”

iso-

prefix meaning “equal”

mis-

prefix meaning “bad, hatred”

mono-

prefix meaning “one”

non-

prefix meaning “not, without”

ob- / oc- / of- / op-

prefix meaning “against”

pan-

prefix meaning “all, every”

peri-

prefix meaning “around, near”

poly-

prefix meaning “many”

post-

prefix meaning “after”

pre-

prefix meaning “before”

pro-

prefix meaning “forward, for, before”

re- / retro-

prefix meaning “again, back”

se-

prefix meaning “away, apart”

sub- / suc- / sup- / sus-

prefix meaning “under, less”