Showing posts with label Root sheets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Root sheets. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Letter D

Root : demos
Meaning : people
Words from the same root : 
  • democracy [demos + cracy (rule)] : rule by the people
  • pandemic [pan (all) + demos] : prevalent throughout an entire country
  • epidemic [epi (over) + demos] : affecting many people at the same time
Root : dictum 
Meaning : speak/word
Words from the same root : 
  • benediction : [bene (good) + dictum] : blessing (good word)
  • malediction : [mal (bad) + dictum] : curse (bad word)
  • diction : right use of the word
Root : duc
Meaning : to lead
Words derived from the same root :
  • ductile : easily led
  • abduct : [ab (away) + duct] : to lead away
  • seduce : [se (apart) + duct] : to lead astray
Prefix : du/di
Meaning : two
Words derived from the same :
  • dilemma : [di (two) + lemma (proposition)] : a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
  • duplex : a housedivided into two separate dwellings
  • duet : a musical composition for two voices or instruments.
Root : dent/dont
Meaning : teeth
Words derived from the same :
  • dentist : a person licensed in the care and replacement of teeth
  • dentures : a partial or a complete set of false teeth
  • orthodontist [ortho (straight) + dentis] : the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correctionof irregular teeth, as by means of braces.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Root Sheet 3 : Letter C

Root : carn
Meaning : flesh
Language :
Words derived from the root carn :
  • carnivore [vor:eat] : one who eats flesh
  • reincarnation [re:again] : born in flesh again
  • carnal : related to the flesh
Root : cide
Meaning : kill
Language
Words derived from the root cide
  • insecticide : one that kills insects
  • genocide [gen : race] : mass killing of people
  • regicide [reg : king/royal] : killing of the king
Root : chrono
Meaning : time
Language : Greek
Words derived from the root chrono :
  • chronology : the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events.
  • synchronize : to cause to indicate the same timeas one timepiece with another
  • chronic : continuing a long time or recurring frequently
Root : centum
Meaning : hundred
Language :
Words derived from the root centum :
  • century : a period of hundred years
  • centennial [enni : year] : pertaining to a 100th anniversary
  • centimeter : one hundredth of a meter
Root : crea
Meaning : grow
Language :
Words derived from the root crea :
  • increase [in : into] : grow
  • decrease [ de : down] : to reduce
  • increment [in : into] : something gained or added

Root Sheet 2 : Letter B

Root : bellum
Meaning : war
Language :
Words derived from the root bellum :
  • bellicose : war like
  • ante bellum [ante : before] : before war
  • rebel : to rise in arms against once government
Root : bio
Meaning : life / living
Language :
Words derived from the root bio :
  • biology : the study of living
  • biography [graphy : write] : someone's life story
  • autobiography [auto : self] : a history of a person's life told or written by that person
Root : biblion 
Meaning : book
Language :
Words derived from the root biblion :
  • bibliography [graphein : write] : a written record of reference books
  • bibliomancy [mancy : prediction] : a divination by interpretation of a passage chosen at random from a book especially the Bible
  • bible : the holy book of the Catholics
Root : brevis 
Meaning : shorten
Language :
Words derived from the same :
  • brevity : concise expression
  • abbreviate : shorten
  • brief : concise
Prefix : bene 
Meaning : good
Language : 
Words derived from the root bene : 
  • benefit : something that is advantageous or good
  • beneficiary : a person or a group that receives benefit 
  • benediction (dict : speak ) : blessing

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Root Sheet 1 : Letter A

Root : anthropos 
Meaning : mankind
Language : Greek 
Words from the same root :
  • anthropology [anthropos + logy (study of)] : the study of mankind
  • philanthropy [phil : love + anthropos] : one who loves mankind
  • misanthropy [mis : hate + anthropos] : one who hates mankind
Root : amare
Meaning : love / friend
Language : Latin
Words for amare :
  • amiable : friendly
  • amity : friendship
  • amicable : friendly , peaceful 
Root : audi
Meaning : hear
Language
Words from audi :
  • audible : capable of being heard
  • inaudible [in (not) + audi] : incapable of being heard
  • auditory : of or relating to hearing or sense organs of hearing
Root : astro
Meaning : star
Language :
Words from astro :
  • astronaut[astro (star) + naut (travel)] : 
  • astrology [astro + logy (study) ] : 
  • asterisk : a small star like symbol  (*)
Root : ambulare
Meaning : walk
Language :
Words derived from ambulare :
  • amble : saunter
  • ambulatory : related to walking
  • perambulator : a carriage for carrying a baby