Greek Roots vocabulary
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- heli-
- sun
- my- mys- myos-
- muscle
- gymn-
- naked, uncovered
- laryng-
- larynx
- cheil- chil-
- lip
- (h)apt- (h)aph-
- to touch, sense of touch
- gloss- glot(t)-
- tongue, language
- coni-
- dust
- tom-
- to cut, section
- mis-
- hate
- camp(t)- campyl-
- bent
- hydr-
- water, fluid
- pha- phan-
- to appear, to show
- dolich-
- long
- myc- mycet-
- fungus
- mening-
- membrane
- loph- lophi-
- crest, ridge, tuft, small crest,
- asc-
- bag
- phylac(t)-
- to guard, to protect
- gon(y)- gonat-
- knee
- hapl-
- single
- aer-
- gas, air
- orch(i)- orchid-
- testicle
- hyal-
- glass, vitreous body of the eye
- hom- home-
- same, similar
- pod- pus-
- foot
- phot-
- light
- cye-
- to be pregnant
- didym-
- twin, testicle
- cra-
- to mix
- hygr-
- moisture
- zym-
- ferment, enzyme
- pne(a)- pneust-
- breathing
- ger- geront-
- old person, old age
- lepid-
- scale
- spa-
- to draw, to jerk
- agog(ue)-
- inducing the flow of, expelling
- aux(e)-
- increase
- xanth-
- yellow
- kilo-
- one thousand
- ped- paed-
- child,
- plan-
- wandering
- Alg-
- pain
- micr-
- small, one millionth
- hal-
- salt
- tach(y)-
- swift
- ot-
- ear
- drepan-
- sickle
- carcin-
- cancer
- bi-
- life
- drom-
- running, course
- log-
- word, speech, reason
- spor-
- seed, spore
- branchi-
- arm
- glyc- glycos-
- sugar, glucose
- ichthy-
- fish
- pter- pteryg(i)-
- wing, fin
- tel(e)-
- completion, end, purpose
- helic- helix-
- spiral
- gyr-
- circle, ring
- carp-
- wrist
- sarc-
- flesh
- pachy-
- thick
- crypt-
- hidden
- eury(s)-
- wide
- plex-
- stroke
- orth-
- straight, correct
- ost(e)-
- bone
- macr-
- large, long
- myi-
- fly
- stol- stal- stle-
- to send, to contract
- cleid-
- clavicle
- tri-
- three
- stern-
- chest, breastbone
- om-
- shoulder
- argyr-
- silver
- cephal
- head
- geny- geni-
- jaw, cheek, chin
- hipp-
- horse
- doch-
- to take or recieve
- thym-
- mind, emotions
- bronch(i)-
- air tube
- idi-
- one's own, peculiar, distinct
- ischi-
- hip
- bul- (boul-)
- will
- gam-
- marriage, union
- zyg-
- yoke
- pneum- pneumat-
- air, gas
- nephr-
- kidney
- lal-
- to talk
- salping-
- tube, specifically, eustachian or fallopian tube
- pex- pag-
- to fasten, united
- gnath-
- jaw
- phor- pher-
- to bear, to go
- gastr- gaster-
- stomach, belly of a muscle
- ophthalm-
- eye
- rhin- rrhin-
- nose
- tre(t)-
- to bore, to perforate
- dacry-
- tear
- dendr-
- tree
- myel-
- spinal cord, marrow
- pha- phem-
- to speak, voice
- myx-
- mucus, slime
- ne-
- new
- cau- caus-
- to burn
- cac- kak-
- bad
- erythr-
- red
- kary- cary-
- nucleus, nut
- hem- hemat- haem- haemat-
- blood
- toc- tok-
- childbirth
- phon-
- sound, voice
- graph- gram-
- to write, thing written
- opisth-
- behind
- sperm(a)- spermat-
- seed, semen
- angi-
- vessel
- trich- (thrix-)
- hair
- cerc-
- tail
- stere-
- solid, 3-D
- staphyl-
- bunch of grapes, uvula
- rhach(i)- rach(i)- rrhach-
- the spine
- ur-
- tail
- tac- tax-
- to arrange, to put in order
- melan-
- black, dark
- este- aesthe-
- to feel, to perceive
- andr-
- man, male
- the-
- to put, to place
- gli-
- glue
- trib- trip-
- to rub, to crush
- glauc-
- silvery, gray-green
- brom-
- stench, bromine
- cyn-
- dog
- dynam- dyn-
- power
- oct(a)-
- eight
- stom- stomat-
- mouth, opening
- mer-
- part
- pali(n)-
- again, back
- hect-
- hundred
- oxy- ox-
- sharp, acid, oxygen
- chlamyd-
- cloak, envelope
- pen-
- deficiency, want
- dich-
- in two
- blan-
- acorn, the glands penis
- cyst-
- bladder, cyst, sac
- proct-
- anus, rectum
- lept-
- thin, delicate
- thec(a)-
- case, sheath
- styl-
- pillar
- cyt-
- cell
- cycl-
- circle, wheel, ciliary body of the eye
- pale- (palae-)
- old, ancient
- gyn(e)- gynec- gynaec-
- female
- platy(s)-
- broad, flat
- anth-
- flower
- chy- chym- chyl-
- to pour, juice
- dips-
- thirst
- cardi-
- heart
- alex-
- to ward off
- aut-
- self
- py-
- pus
- astr- aster-
- star
- ur- ure-
- urine, urinary system, to urinate
- sial-
- saliva
- rhabd-
- rod
- de- desm-
- to bind, ligament
- amygdal-
- almond, tonsil
- enter-
- intestine
- rhaph- rrhaph-
- to sew, to suture
- men-
- moon, menstration
- dactyl-
- finger, toe
- adelph-
- brother
- calypt(r)-
- hidden
- cocc-
- berry- shaped organism
- therm-
- heat
- chor(i)-
- fetal membrane, tunic of the eyeball
- xyl-
- wood
- phren-
- mind, diaphram
- narc-
- stupor
- isch-
- to suppress
- nyct-
- night
- prosop-
- face
- nem- nemat-
- thread
- thi-
- sulfur
- cente-
- to puncture
- pto-
- to fall
- lymph-
- water, lymph
- kym- cym-
- wave
- presby-
- old
- galact- gala-
- milk
- gno-
- to know
- pan- pant-
- all, complete
- phyt-
- plant, growth
- mast- maz-
- breast
- pyg-
- buttocks
- hyster-
- uterus, hysteria
- cly(s)-
- to wash
- thromb--
- clot
- rhiz- rrhiz-
- root
- andr-
- cavity, sinus
- malac-
- soft
- stig-
- prickling, mark, point
- heter-
- other, different
- dec(a)-
- ten
- blep-
- to see
- brachy-
- short
- enne(a)-
- nine
- sphygm-
- pulse
- lip-
- fat
- hept(a)-
- seven
- lei-
- smooth
- saur-
- lizard
- lapar-
- abdomen
- chondr- chondri-
- cartilage, granule
- pleur-
- side, rib
- strept- stroph-
- turned, twisted
- xen-
- host, stranger, foreigner
- acou- acu-
- to hear
- ton-
- stretching, tension
- porphyr-
- purple
- mogi-
- difficult
- coll(a)-
- glue
- sphen-
- wedge
- poly-
- many, much
- ankyl-
- bent, stiff, adhesion of parts
- chol(e)-
- bile, gall
- tox-
- poison
- all-
- other, different
- lep-
- to seize
- deut- deuter-
- second
- cel(i)- coel- -coel
- cavity, abdominal cavity
- onym-
- name
- odyn-
- pain
- clon(us)-
- muscle spasm
- stear- steat-
- fat, tallow
- hol-
- whole, entire
- bleen-
- mucus
- trachel-
- neck
- crani-
- cranium
- por-
- passage, pore
- arthr-
- joint, speech sound, articulation
- op-opt-
- eye, to see
- colp-
- vagina
- pty- ptyal-
- to spit, saliva
- poie-
- to make
- path-
- disease, suffering, feeling
- is-
- equal, same
- steth
- chest
- condyl-
- knob, knuckle
- phyc-
- seaweed, algae
- spondyl-
- vertebra
- eme-
- to vomit
- chir- cheir-
- hand
- brady-
- slow
- phrag-
- to block up, to wall in
- lemm(a)-
- sheath, husk
- mne-
- to remember
- ba-
- to step, to go, to walk
- scler-
- hard
- cry- crym-
- cold, ice
- blast-
- bud, germ, embrypnic cell
- gon-
- seed
- ambly-
- dull
- anthrop-
- human, human being
- chrom- chromat- chro-
- color
- -plo
- folded, fold, threefold
- sep-
- to rot, to putrify
- ancon-
- elbow
- spir-
- coil
- metr-
- uterus
- sit-
- food
- acanth-
- thorn, prickle
- ech-
- echo, repitition
- mel-
- limb
- ec- oec- oek- oic-
- house
- prot-
- first, original, primitive
- helminth-
- worm
- lecith-
- yolk
- branchi-
- gills
- hod- od-
- road, way
- rhe- -rrh
- to flow, current
- cyan-
- blue
- col-
- colon
- tetr(a)-
- four
- phyl-
- race, class
- cri-crin-
- to separate, to distinguish, to secrete
- trop- trep-
- to turn, response to stimulus
- gen(e)- gon-
- to be produced, to produce
- ede-
- to swell
- hypn-
- sleep
- troph-
- nourishment, development
- necr-
- corpse, dead tissue
- tele-
- afar, operating at a distance
- crot-
- pulse beat
- splanchn-
- entrails, viscera
- onych-
- finger or toenail, claw
- neur-
- nerve, nervous system, tendon
- er- erot-
- love
- odont-
- tooth
- splen-
- spleen
- -agra
- painful seizure
- gon(i)-
- angle
- lith- lite-
- stone
- poikil-
- varied, irregular, mottled
- blephar-
- eyeliid
- phleb-
- vein
- thel-
- nipple
- -rrhag-
- excessive discharge, usually of blood
- phag-
- to eat
- kerat- cerat- ker- cer-
- horn, horny tissue, cornea
- corm-
- trunk of a tree or body
- copr-
- excrement
- sta-
- to stand, to regulate, to fix, to stop
- ornis- ornith-
- bird
- cli- clei- cleist-
- to close, closed
- geu-
- to taste
- derm- dermat-
- skin
- sthen-
- strength
- chron-
- time
- dem-
- people, country
- mes-
- middle
- mon-
- single, one
- poli-
- gray
- actin-
- ray
- som- somat-
- body
- scop-
- to view
- erg-
- work
- thorac-
- chest, thorax
- gangli-
- mass of nerve tissue, small cyst or swelling
- phthi-
- to waste away
- mega- megal-
- large, one million
- plas(t)-
- to form, to mold
- pyl(e)-
- gate, entrance
- olig-
- few, scanty
- bry-
- moss
- irid- iris-
- iris, rainbow
- phil-
- to love, to have an affinity for
- carp-
- fruit
- sten-
- narrow
- pyr- pyret- pyrex-
- fire, fever
- di-
- twice, double
- ide-
- idea, mental image
- thall-
- young shoot
- phyll-
- leaf
- hepat- hepar-
- liver
- bar- bary-
- weight, pressure, heavy
- xer-
- dry
- hidro(s)-
- sweat
- leuk- (leuc-)
- white
- chord-
- cord
- onc- oncus-
- tumor, swelling
- morph-
- form
- pycn- pykn-
- thick, frequent
- eo(s)-
- dawn or early age, rosy
- tars-
- instep, edge of the eye
- clas-
- to break
- lex-
- to read
- not-
- the back
- cor(e)-
- pupil of the eye
- pneumon- pneum-
- lung
- sapr-
- rotten
- oo-
- egg
- thanat-
- death
- psych-
- mind, soul
- clad-
- branch
- zo-
- animal, living being
- arch(e)-
- ancient, beginning, primative
- chlor-
- green, chlorine
- top-
- place
- schiz- schis(t)-
- to split
- phra-
- to speak
- mastig- mastix-
- whip, flagellum
- ta-
- to stretch
- hemi-
- half
- -cele
- hernia, swelling
- ge-
- earth
- pleg-
- paralysis
- pyel-
- pelvis, especially of the kidney
- in-
- fiber, muscle
- mit-
- thread
- kine- cine-
- to move
- pseud-
- false
- ly-
- to loosen, to dissolve, to break up
- syring-
- pipe, tube
- nos-
- disease
- aden-
- gland
- omphal-
- naval
- pep(s)- pept-
- to digest
- petr-
- rock
- amyl-
- starch
- ont-
- being, individual
- phy-
- to grow
- pent(a)-
- five
- iatr-
- physician, medical treatment
- acr-
- extremity, summit
- ball- bol- ble-
- to throw, to put
- arachn-
- spider
- hex(a)-
- six
- hist- histi-
- tissue
- troch-
- wheel, disk
- osm-
- smell