Greek Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots
Terms
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- a-, an-
- not; without
- acro-
- point; end; tip; extremity
- allo-
- other
- amph-, amphi-
- both; around
- ana-
- up; on; again; apiece
- anti-
- against
- apo-
- off; from; away from
- archae-
- ancient; origninal
- auto-
- self
- caco-
- bad; poor; harsh
- cata-, cath-
- down; away; complete; against
- dia-
- through; across
- dys-
- bad; difficult; impaired
- ec-, ex-, ecto-
- out; outside of; from
- en-, em-, endo-
- in; within
- epi-
- on; upon; over; besides
- eu-
- good; well
- hetero-
- other; different; unlike
- hier-
- sacred; holy
- holo-
- whole
- homo-
- same; equal; like
- hyp-; hypo-
- under; less than
- hyper-
- over; above; more than
- idea-
- one's own; individual
- iso-
- equal; identical
- macro-
- long; large
- mega-; megalo-
- large; great
- meta-
- with; among; after; beyond
- micro-
- small
- neo-
- new; recent
- olig-
- few
- ortho-
- straight; correct; proper
- pachy-
- thick
- paleo-
- ancient
- pan-; panto-
- all; every
- par-; para-
- at the side of; beyond; amiss
- peri-
- around
- poly-
- much; many
- pro-
- before
- pros-
- in addition; to place
- pseudo-
- false; counterfeit
- syn-; syl-; sym-
- with; together
- tauto-
- same; repeat
- tele-
- at or from a distance
- -algia
- pain
- -clast; -clasm
- break; destroy
- -cracy
- rule; government
- -iatry
- treatment; heal; cure
- -itis
- inflammation
- -latry
- worship; devotion
- -lysis
- loosening; dissolving
- -machy
- struggle; war
- -mancy
- prophecy; divination
- -mania
- madness; craving; abnormal preoccupation
- -meros
- part
- -oid
- like; resembling
- -log; -ology
- study or science of; word; speech; reason
- -orama
- view
- -phobia
- fear; dread; hatred
- -phoria; -phery
- bearing; producing
- -poly
- sell
- -taxis
- response to stimulus; arrange; order
- phon
- sound; tone
- graph, gram
- write; draw; record
- proto-
- first
- dyn, dynam
- power; strength
- chrom, chromat
- color
- chron
- time
- tri-
- three
- therm
- heat
- deutero-
- second
- hydr
- water
- phot, phos
- light
- phil
- love
- bibl, biblio
- book
- dis-, di-
- twice; double
- meso-
- middle
- hemi-
- half
- do-
- two
- miso
- hate;hatred
- cosm
- world; order; universe
- arch
- rule; govern
- mono-
- one,single
- bi-
- two; twice
- erg, urg
- work
- op, opt, ops
- sight;view;eye
- gno, gnos
- to know
- ec, eco
- house; environment
- eth
- character;custom;habit
- aesth,esth
- nation;people
- dict, dic
- say; speak; tell
- plut
- wealth
- polis, polit
- city; state; citizen
- aristo
- best
- top
- place
- ethn
- character;custom;habit
- crit, cris
- discern; judge; seperate
- phag
- eating; destroying
- tetra-
- four
- scop, scept, skept
- look at;see;examine
- penta-
- five
- kind; descent; origin; race
- gen, gon
- hexa-
- six
- ennea-
- nine
- people
- dem
- hepta-
- seven
- deka-, deca-
- ten
- human being
- anthrop
- octo-
- eight
- woman; female
- gyn, gynec
- earth
- geo
- sun
- helio
- life
- bio
- hect-, hecato-
- hundred
- kilo-
- thousand
- god
- theo
- marriage
- gam
- glos, glot
- tongue;language
- hem, hemat, -em
- blood
- neur
- nerve
- meter, metr
- measure
- pneum, -pnea
- lung;air; breath
- gon
- angle
- ophthalm
- eye
- centr, center
- center
- path
- suffering; disease; feeling
- soma,somat
- body
- mnem, mnes
- mind;memory
- nom
- management; law
- therap
- cure; treatment
- morph
- form; shape
- gastro
- stomach;digestion
- psych
- mind; mental process
- derm, dermat
- skin
- techn
- art; skill
- odont
- tooth
- phys
- nature of
- klin, clin
- slope; lean
- rrh, rrhag, rheo
- flow;gush;burst
- cephal
- head;skull,brain
- bar
- weight; pressure
- sperm, spor
- seed; sow; scatter
- cran
- head
- chir
- hand
- plas, plasm
- form; mold; shape
- pod
- foot
- death
- Necro
- osteo
- bone
- dactyl
- finger;toe;digit
- cardi
- heart
- Dead; Dead body
- Necro
- tom
- cut
- onym, onoma
- name
- nau, naus
- ship; sailor
- stas, stat
- stand; stop
- Motion; move
- kine, cinema
- nim
- imitate; act
- tone; stretch
- ton, ten
- caut, caust
- burn
- schiz, schis
- split, separate, divide
- tax, tact
- arrangement, order
- soph
- wise, wisdom