Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Prefixes
- a-: not, without
- a-, ab-: from
- abs-: away
- a-, an-: without
- ad-: to, toward, near
- ambi-: both, around
- ana-: backward, reversed; according to
- Anglo-: England, English
- ante-: before
- anti-: against
- auto-: self; same
- be-: on, away
- bene-: well
- circum-: around
- co-: together
- com-, con-: together, with
- contra-: against
- de-: down, away; off; reversal, undoing
- de-, dia-: completely
- di-: double
- dis-: apart, aside
- e-, ex-: out
- em-, en-, in-: in
- epi-: over, on
- equa-: even, equal
- eu-: good
- ex-: out, out of; completely
- extra-: beyond
- homo-: same
- hypo-: under
- im-, in-: in; toward; not; against
- inter-: between; at intervals
- ir-: not
- magna-: great
- meta-: involving change
- miso-: indicating hatred
- mono-: one
- ob-: to, toward; against
- omni-: all
- para-: alongside
- per-: through; thoroughly, completely; throughout; destruction
- peri-: around
- pre-: before; in front
- prima: first
- pro-: forward; before
- re-: back, again
- sub-: under, below
- super-: above, over
- sun-, syn-: same, similar
- trans-: across
- ubi-: where
- un-: not
- uni-: one
Roots
- alien: other
- alter: other
- amicus: friend
- anima: soul, mind
- annus: year
- anthropos: man, human
- audi: to hear
- bel: beautiful
- bellum: war
- bunk: nonsense
- cap, caput: head
- capere: to take, seize
- card: heart
- carn: body, flesh
- cedere: to come or go
- centr, kentron: center; point
- chron: time
- cidere: to cut
- cilium: lower eyelid
- cognitus: to know
- corp: body
- cred, credere: believe
- currere: to run
- dent: teeth
- derm: skin
- dicere: to speak
- digit: finger, toe
- diligere: to love; to choose
- dolere: to give pain; to feel pain
- domare: to tame or subdue
- donare: to give
- ego: self
- ept: apt
- equi: equal
- ethos: moral custom
- facere: to make or do
- fervere: to boil
- fides: faith
- finis: border, boundary
- flagrare: to burn or blaze
- gen, genus: birth, race, kind
- fungi: to perform
- gignoskein: to know
- glot: tongue
- grad: to go
- gratia: grace
- gratus: please, satisfy
- grex: flock, herd
- haerere: to stick
- ira: anger
- iter: journey
- jacere: to throw
- judex: judge
- lethe: forget, death
- levis: light
- libra: to weigh, scale, pound
- lingua: tongue
- littera: letter
- log, logos: word
- loqui: to speak
- magnus: great
- mal, malus: bad, evil
- manu: hand
- mar: sea
- matr: mother
- minere: to stand; to project
- miser: wretched
- mittere: to send
- monere: to warn
- morph: shape, form
- mort: die
- nas: nose
- nat: to be born
- neur: nerves
- nomen: name
- nomos: law
- nounce: shout
- nov: new
- onus: load, burden
- op: eye
- opsis: view
- or: mouth
- ortho: straight
- pais, pax: peace
- pati (pass, pathos): feeling
- ped, pede: foot
- pellere: to drive (as in cattle)
- petere: to go toward; to seek; to attack
- philo: love of
- phobos: fear
- phone: sound
- placere: to please
- plicare: to fold
- polis: city
- pondus: weight
- ponere, poser: to place
- precari: to pray
- prehendere: to seize
- psych: mind
- rancere: to stink
- rapere: to seize
- rogare: to ask
- sacer, sacrare: sacred; to make sacred
- sadire: to leap
- salut: health
- sanctus: sacred (past participle of to consecrate)
- sang: blood
- satis: sufficient, enough
- scire: to know
- scribere: to write
- sedere: to sit
- sentire: to watch; to perceive; to feel
- sequi: to follow
- similis: like
- solus: alone
- solvere: to untie; to release; to loosen
- sopor: sleep
- spec, specere: to look
- spire: breathe
- stare: to stand
- tacere: to be silent
- tangere: to touch
- tempore, tempus: time
- tenere: to hold
- texere: to weave
- theo: God
- titithenai: to place
- tort, torquere: to twist
- trahere: to draw
- tribuere: to grant, pay
- turba: confusion
- urb: city
- vadere: to go
- vagus: to wander
- valere: to be strong
- venire: to come
- venus: love
- verax: truth
- verbum: word
- vertere: to turn
- via: way
- vit, viv: life
- voc: to call
- volere: to wish
- volvere: to roll
- vox: voice
Suffixes
- -able, -ible: able to (adjective)
- -al: act or process of doing, connection
- -ance, -ence: process, state, action
- -ary: connected with, engaged in, place (noun)
- -ate: to apply, to operate
- -ent: having the quality of
- -fic: to make or do
- -ful: full (adjective)
- -ic: characteristic of (adjective)
- -icide: kill
- -ify: to make or do (verb)
- -ion: (See -tion)
- -ish: like
- -ism: practice or belief (noun)
- -ist: person who (noun)
- -ity: quality of (noun)
- -ive: tendency or inclination
- -ize: to cause, to make, to become (verb)
- -less: without (adjective)
- -ly: like, in the manner of (usually adverb)
- -ment: state or condition (noun)
- -ness: state or condition (noun)
- -ology: study of (noun)
- -ous: full of (adjective)
- -or: person who (noun)
- -osis: condition or abnormal condition (noun)
- -tion: act or state of (noun)