latin roots

Aud

To hear, audio

Aug

Grow, increase; augment

Auto

Self autobiography

Avi

Bird, aviation

Belli

War, bellicose

Good/well

Benefit

Bi

Two bicycle

Bibl

Book bibliography

Blast

Germ blastoma

botan

Plant botanist

Bov

Cow/ox bovine

Brady

Slow bradycardia

Brev

Short brevity

Bronch

Windpip, bronchitis

Calc

Stone, calcify

Calor

Heat calorie

Cand

Glowing incandescent

Cani

Dog canine

Capit

Head decapitate

Carbo

Coal carbon

An

Without amoral

Alter

Other alternative

Aster/astr

Star astronaut

Ab

Away from absent

Agri

Field agriculture

Ante

Before antecedent

Anima

Breath animal

Anni/annu

Year anniversary

Ad

Towards advance

Antho

Flower anthology

Aqua

Water aquatic

Anti

Against antibiotics

Arthro

Joint arthritis

Aesth

Feeling aesthetic

Anthro

Human philanthropy

Acu

Sharp acute

Alt

High deep altitude

Ana

Up back again

Anachromatic

Acer/scid/acri

Bitter sour sheep

Acidic

Amphi

Both

Amphibious

Scrib, Script

Write

Transcribe

Sequ

Follow

Sequence

Sign, Signi

Sign, Mark, Seal

Signature

Sol

Alone/Sun

Solar

Spec, Spect, Spic

Look

Spectator

Spher

Ball

Sphere

Spir

Breath

Respiration

String, Strict

Draw Tight

Constrict

Stru, Struct

Build

Construction

Sume, sump

Take,use,waste

Consume

Tempo

Time

Temporal

Terra

Earth

Terrain

Test

To bear witness

Testify

The(o)

A god

Theology

Therm

Heat

Thermal

Tort, Tors

Twist

Contortionist

Tox

Poison

Toxic

Trib

Pay,Bestow

Tribute

Typ

Print

Typography

Uni

One

Unibrow

Vac

Empty

Vacant

Ven,vent

Come

Venture

Ver, veri

True

Verify

Via

Way

Viaduct

Vid,vis

See

Visual

Vita

Alive, life

Vital

Vor

Eat

Herbivore

Pod

Foot; Example: Tripod

Poli

City; Example: Metropolis

Poly

Many; Example: Polygon

Pop

People; Example: Portable

Port

Carry; Example: Portable

Post

After; Example: Postpartum

Pot

Power; Example: Despot

Pre

Before; Example: Prehistoric

Prim

First; Example: Primary

Pro

In front of; Example: Processional

Proto

First; Example: Prototype

Pseudo

False; Example: Pseudonym

Psycho

Mind; Example: Psychotic

Punct

Point, Dot; Example: Punctuation

Pyro

Heat, Fire; Example: Pyrotechnics

Quadr

Four; Example: Quadrilateral

Retro

Back / Again; Example: Retroactive

Rupt

Break / Burst; Example: Rupture

Sacr

Sacred; Example: Sacrament

Scope

See, Watch; Example: Telescope

Hex

Meaning: Six

• Example: hexagon

Hibern

Meaning: Wintery

• Example: hibernate

Homo

Meaning: Same

• Example: homonym