 | Root (source) | Meaning | English words |
| aster, astr (G) | star | astronomy, astrology |
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| fer (L) | to carry | transfer, referral |
| fix (L) | to fasten | fix, suffix, affix |
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| jur, just (L) | law | jury, justice |
| log, logue (G) | word, thought, speech | monolog(ue), astrology, biology, neologism |
| luc (L) | light | lucid, translucent |
| manu (L) | hand | manual, manuscript |
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| op, oper (L) | work | operation, operator |
| path (G) | feeling | pathetic, sympathy, empathy |
| ped (G) | child | pediatrics, pedophile |
| phil (G) | love | philosophy, Anglophile |
| phys (G) | body, nature | physical, physics |
| scrib, script (L) | to write | scribble, manuscript |
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| ter, terr (L) | earth | territory, extraterrestrial |
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| verb (L) | word | verbal, verbose |
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Authority for this chart: The Little, Brown Handbook by H. Ramsay Fowler and Jane E. Aaron, & Kay Limburg. 6th ed. HarperCollins: New York. 1995. By permission of Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc.
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